Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars. Mr Pistorius said he approached the bathroom armed with his firearm, to defend himself and his girlfriend, believing Ms Steenkamp was still in bed. Mr Pistorius said he fired his weapon after hearing a noise in the toilet which he thought was the intruder coming out of the toilet to attack him and Ms Steenkamp.
He said he was in a fearful state, knowing he was on his stumps and unable to run away or properly defend himself.
A witness told the trial she woke to hear a woman screaming and a man shouting for help. She said that after the screams she heard four shots. Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom after shooting at the toilet door, still shouting for Reeva. Lifting himself up onto the bed, he felt over to the right hand side of it and noticed Ms Steenkamp was not there.
Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bathroom but the toilet was locked, so he returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs, turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat. Forensics expert Johannes Vermeulen told the court that the height of the marks on the door caused by the cricket bat suggest Mr Pistorius was on his stumps at the time.
Mr Pistorius's defence team say he then called security at the gated housing complex and a private paramedic service before carrying Ms Steenkamp downstairs. A security guard claimed it was the other way round, and he had called Mr Pistorius first after reports of gunfire. However, phone records shown to the court revealed Mr Pistorius called the estate manager at am, a minute later he called the ambulance service and at am he called estate security.
According to police phone expert Francois Moller, Mr Pistorius called his friend Justin Divaris a short time later and just after am he called his brother Carl. South African Police Service. Image source, Getty Images. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Oscar Pistorius: "I'm scared to sleep I have terrible nightmares". The court was shown a Sky News report showing Pistorius at a shooting range. Image source, AFP. Oscar Pistorius reads out the message in his Valentine's card from his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Merryll Vorster: "He is certainly remorseful about the events Gerrie Nel: "It's just so improbable, it can never be reasonably possibly true and is a clear indication of his mendacity and his deceitfulness".
Image source, AP. Oscar Pistorius stood as the verdicts were read out by the judge. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Both sides agree four bullets were fired. Ms Steenkamp was hit three times. Mr Pistorius said he rejected claims that he was on his prostheses when he shot at the door. They absolutely adored her.
They were so proud of her, what she had accomplished. She looked after them so well, not just financially. Prosecutors appealed the verdict, feeling Pistorius' punishment was way too lenient. In September , his lawyer said that his client—who before Feb.
Parole was also already on the table, although South Africa's justice minister said that Pistorius had to spend at least 10 months behind bars first. Much to the outrage of Steenkamp's loved ones, as well as to advocates for victims of domestic abuse and gun violence who had rallied behind the family, the parole board approved Pistorius' transfer to house arrest.
He was released from prison on Oct. Meanwhile, though the international spotlight was focused predominantly on Oscar Pistorius' tragic and still shocking downfall, from hero and inspiration to killer, Reeva Steenkamp's family was still trying to pick up the pieces.
But I know that anytime his name is mentioned and you hear it, it's like another blow. It's not easy. For your own personal sanity. Being in court all those months […] there was so much negative energy. You were just glad to get out alive. At the time, one of the conditions of Pistorius' relief was that he meet with the Steenkamp family when they felt ready, the terms of the meeting entirely at their discretion.
He did reach out multiple times but the meeting never occurred, the Steenkamps never feeling ready to go through with it. On Dec. Granted bail, Pistorius was allowed to travel up to 12 miles away from his uncle's home where he'd been staying, between the hours of 7 a.
In his first TV interview since Steenkamp's death, which he gave from his uncle's house in June , Pistorius said he had to live every day with the knowledge that he "did take Reeva's life. I can feel the warmness of it on my hands," he said. He continued, "And I understand the pain people feel, that loved her and miss her. I feel that same pain. I feel that same hate for myself. I feel that same difficulty in understanding this.
And I look back and I think, I always think— how did this possibly happen? I think, how could this have happened? How could this have happened? At the sentencing hearing days after Pistorius' interview aired, Barry Steenkamp gave emotional testimony about the loss of his daughter, saying he had forgiven Oscar but he still had to pay for what he'd done. I talk to her.
It is difficult to explain," Barry said. I wouldn't wish that on anybody in the world. Pistorius' lawyers and doctors argued that he had grown increasingly depressed and troubled and should be hospitalized rather than jailed.
But on July 6, , more than three years after Reeva Steenkamp's murder, Pistorius was sentenced to six years in prison, which is where he remains now. And yet the wrangling over Oscar Pistorius' fate, what sort of man he really is and what punishment actually fits his crime continues. A brief trip to the hospital in August to treat minor wrist injuries prompted rumors that the thenyear-old had tried to kill himself.
He denied it, saying he hurt his wrist falling out of bed. A week later, however, prison sources told South Africa's City Press that Pistorius had been put on suicide watch. Sources also said that Pistorius had told officials that three prison nurses were trying to kill him with "toxic" pills and he was refusing to accept any medication administered by them.
With mountains of legal testimony, reporting and opinions to go on, Lifetime has now tackled the case in Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner Killer , starring Andreas Damm as the disgraced champion and Toni Garrn as Steenkamp. The movie, premiering tonight, has been considered controversial since it was first announced, with critics from the sporting world and beyond questioning its merits on every level and Pistorius' family threatening legal action over what they called the film's "gross misrepresentation of the truth.
Damm portrays Pistorius as a tightly wound, emotionally volatile and aggressive man who bullied Steenkamp and made her fear for her life before ultimately killing her on that still-murky night—in other words, the prosecution's version of him. Noting that Oscar's mental health was thoroughly examined over the course of the investigation and trial, Carl added, "at no stage was Oscar found to have the mind of a killer.
In their own statement, Steenkamp's family said : "They are horrified and upset to read a report that 'the movie is told from Steenkamp and her mother's perspective. Any impression that is created that this is June's view, or that the movie is endorsed by the Steenkamp family, is untrue and incorrect. Meanwhile, just last week, prosecutors went to South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeals to ask permission to appeal Pistorius' six-year prison sentence, protesting that it was "shockingly" lenient and "unjust.
They want his sentence lengthened to 15 years. Judge Masipa, whose finding of not guilty on the murder charge they had already successfully appealed, was also the judge who gave him six years for murder; she previously denied the prosecution's request to challenge the sentence. Subscriber Account active since. The messages, sent in January on popular messaging app WhatsApp, were revealed during Pistorius' murder trial in South African court.
Pistorius shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp in his house on Feb. He denies that he murdered her, claiming he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door because he believed she was an intruder. Eyewitness News reporter Barry Bateman tweeted screenshots of two of the messages. The first is from Steenkamp, sent on Jan. Steenkamp's message suggests that Pistorius got angry with her for "flirting" with another man at a party, and she says she feels like she's living in a "double standard relationship.
She also tells Pistorius that he has "picked on [her] incessantly" and complains about things like how she talks and chews gum.
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