Screaming man sounded ’embarrassed’ – Oscar Trial

“The man almost sounded embarrassed in calling for help… That is the impression I got, it’s what struck me,” Charl Johnson said to questioning from Barry Roux, for Pistorius.

This emerged as Roux was questioning Johnson about notes he had made about the screams and gunshots he heard from his townhouse in the early morning hours of February 14 last year. He made the notes on March 6 that year. He previously testified that he heard both a woman and a man screaming.

Pistorius’s home is 177m from Johnson’s, the court heard this week.

Roux charged that Johnson was trying to incriminate Pistorius with his version of events.

“There is a design on your side to incriminate.” Johnson countered that he had no reason to do so.

Pistorius is accused of the murder of his girlfriend Steenkamp in his Pretoria townhouse on February 14 last year.

He is also charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and two counts of discharging a firearm in public. He allegedly fired a shot from a Glock pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013.

In September 2010 he allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car with his 9mm pistol while driving with friends in Modderfontein.

– Sapa