Day Two:
On the second day of the Oscar Pistorius trial a key witness has broken down as she stuck to her story regarding the screams she heard from the home of Pistorius on the night he shot Reeva Steenkamp.
“It was awful to hear the shouts before the shots,” Dr Michelle Burger a University lecturer said. “When I am in the shower I relive her shouts.”
Earlier Pistorius had been reduced to silent tears when his barrister, Barry Roux, told the court how Miss Steenkamp was shot in the head.
The barrister was reading medical evidence on the shooting.
Mr Roux said it was physically impossible for Reeva to scream, given the final bullet had struck her in the head, puncturing her brain.
The SMH reports “The court heard how the first bullet fired by Pistorius struck Ms Steenkamp in the right thigh and the second missed her and instead lodged in the bathroom wall.
A third shot struck her in the shoulder, while the fourth struck her head. It’s understood there is a dispute between the parties as to the order of the bullets.
“That total impact of [the] shots would not have allowed her to scream,” he said. “With the head shot she would have dropped down immediately.”