Third witness takes stand in Oscar trial
Charl Johnson Burger, husband of the first witness to testify in Oscar Pistorius's murder trial, took the stand in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock inside the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (Themba Hadebe, POOL)
He and his wife Michelle live in the Silver Stream Estate in Pretoria next to Silver Woods where Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year.
The soft-spoken IT project manager wore a suit and tie and took a good swig of bottled water before prosecutor Gerrie Nel launched into questioning.
His wife has already testified that she heard anxious cries, four shots and a scream in the early hours of February 14 last year, when Steenkamp was shot dead.
Pistorius has pleaded not guilty, saying he thought there was an intruder in the home when he accidentally shot Steenkamp through the door of a toilet cubicle.
Johnson’s testimony was not televised, and the court ordered that no photographs of him may be published.
– Sapa
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