Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius studies his notes in the dock during his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, Monday, 10 March 2014. Pistorius is on trial for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his suburban Pretoria home on Valentine's Day last year. He says he mistook her for an intruder. Picture: Siphiwe Sibeko/Pool
Professor Gert Saayman, who had performed an autopsy on Pistorius’s dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was still delivering his evidence-in-chief.
Before proceedings adjourned, he told the court of the injuries that Steenkamp sustained to her hips.
“The overall appearance shows the entry point to be around 92cm from the ground,” said Saayman, specifying that he was talking about a wound in Steenkamp’s right hip.
He said a defect he had seen on Steenkamp’s pants were in line with this wound. Steenkamp had also sustained injuries to her left groin but these were superficial, small abrasions.
“This was possibly caused by wooden splinters,” said Saayman.
“These did not penetrate the skin,” he said.
Saayman also spoke of a wound that he noted on Steenkamp’s hand between two of her fingers.
Other than these wounds, Steenkamp sustained a gunshot wound to the head.
Pistorius, who was Steenkamp’s boyfriend, is on trial for her murder.
He shot her through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day last year.
He claimed to have mistaken her for an intruder.
The State, however, argues that it was premeditated murder.
– Sapa
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