Oscar Pistorius Trial, Day 21, Final session for the day: 13:03 - Before adjourning, Nel said: Your perception is impossible, you never perceived someone coming out...you shot at her knowing shes behind the door. OP: Thats not true. 13:00 - Court adjourns until 09:30 Monday morning. 13:00 - Nel asks for adjournment until Monday morning. 12:58 - OP: I heard a noise and thought someone was coming out to attack me. 12:57 - Pistorius describes the noise he heard (prior to the shots) sounded like “wood moving”, like the “door opening”. 12:56 - There are many times when Im haunted by what Reeva must have thought in her last moments, OP says. 12:55 - Nel: Sometimes you have to take responsibility... You cannot get away with this time and time again, pretending that you cant follow. 12:54 - Barry Roux intervenes as the runner wipes his face and nose with what looks like a blue hanky, Alex Crawford tweets. 12:53 - Nel: Can you say Reeva didnt scream after first shot? OP: I didnt hear her scream. 12:51 - No one screamed, OP says. Nel: How can you say that? OP: Because I was there, Mr Nel. 12:51 - OP: I wish she let me know she was in there. 12:50 - You said she never screamed, Nel says. 12:49 - Absolute silence in court as Nel waits for OP to respond. At no point did Reeva shout out or scream, says OP who is in tears again. 12:48 - OP suddenly brings up an apparently similar previous incident in Reevas life during which she locked herself in the bathroom. 12:48 - In her mind I was retreating for the bathroom, says OP, his voice wavering. 12:47 - Nel: She wasnt scared of anything. Except you. She was scared of YOU. 12:46 - Nel says it is improbable that OP would scream at Reeva to call police and she would keep quiet she is 3 metres away. OP reckons Reeav was scared and thats why she didnt shout. 12:44 - Nel: Your intention was to make person flee? Thats correct. Nel: And when you got into the bathroom, there was no-one there? OP: Correct 12:41 - My life was in danger. The entire time I thought, I need to be careful, says OP. 12:40 - I didnt have the luxury of time, says OP. You considered that it was now the time to be quiet, Nel asks OP. 12:40 - I had to consider that there was someone in the toilet or on the ladder, says OP. 12:39 - Nel says OP reasonably thought that an intruder came in through the window and locked himself in the toilet. OP: Im not sure what an intruder would do. 12:38 - Nel if you’re inside the toilet there’s limited space to move. Pistorius agrees. It’s a small space. 12:37 - OP: Im sorry that I made a mistake. Nel: Your mistakes are as convincing as your evidence in the way you deliver them. 12:35 - Nel: Yuor version never happened and thats why you have to keep up with an untruth. OP: I made a mistake. 12:34 - OP: The toilet door is usually open. But it wasnt strange that it was closed. 12:33 - OP confirms he established there was no one in the bathroom at this point and he could see the toilet door was closed. 12:33 - OP says there was ambient lights outside window. It wasnt as dark as bedroom so he saw window open. 12:31 - I was 100% sure that someone was in my house, OP says. 12:30 - Nel: When did you hear the door slam? OP: When I was in the passage. Nel: What did you think? 12:29 - Pistorius: After slowly peering into the bathroom entrance, slowly went in. Not sure if someone was by the basins. 12:28 - OP: Every moment was a split decision. Someone could have attacked me with a gun or choked me. Nel: Nobody would do that, thats a lie. So Nels worked a way around calling OP a liar, which the judge told him not to do. 12:27 - You shouted to Reeva and she never responded? OP confirms. 12:26 - You say you shouted for them to leave, Nel says to OP. The athlete says it was very loud. 12:25 - Nel: You knew the only way into your house from the bathroom was down that passage... 12:25 - OP: My intention wasnt to confront them. I was shouting at them to get out of my house. I was terrified. 12:23 - Thats how I am, I go towards the danger, OP says. Aimee Pistorius looks very unhappy. A frown is fixed upon her face. 12:22 - Nel: explain to the court why you didn’t take Reeva out that bedroom door. OP: I can’t. 12:22 - OP: Its very easy to now look back and consider all the possibilities. Thats not what happened. My version hasnt changed, the state has many times, OP says frustratingly. 12:21 - Why did you not leave through your bedroom door, Nel asks. OP claims its because of his limited movement on his stumps. 12:19 I find your instinct strange, Nel says. You didnt find it instinctual to check on Reeva, he says. OP claims his instinct told him he was making it SAFER for Reeva by facing the perceived danger in the bathroom. 12:18 - Nel: Someone coming out of bathroom would have had to walk at least five metres to get to you. OP says he walked, not rushed towards the perceived danger. 12:16 - If I stayed in my room, something could have happened. I wanted to put as much distance between Reeva and the danger, OP says emotionally. He speaks of someone using mace on him and Reeva. 12:15 - OP says he went towards danger to put himself between it and Reeva. Nel: If you stayed in that room, Reeva wouldnt be dead. OP says he didnt know that at the time. 12:15 - I screamed for the persons to get out of the house, for Reeva to call the police, OP says. 12:15 - When you walked down that passage, the gun was pointing towards the bathroom. Any movement and you would have fired, Nel says. 12:13 - OP says theres a massive difference to being ready for an intruder and being ready to shoot. 12:13 - OP: I didnt want to take anybodys life. I screamed for the intruders to get out of my home. 12:12 - Nel asks whether he released the safety mechanism on his gun. He did. Nel: Thats why you stormed. You wanted to shoot. 12:11 - OP says AGAIN he didnt have time to think. 12:11 - I was never ready to shoot, I was trying to see what was happening in my home, OP says. 12:10 - I could have done a host of things, but at that time that was the decision I made - OP 12:09 - Nel suggests they could both have retreated to the balcony. OP says no escape from there. 12:08 - OP says he had many, many thoughts going through his head at this point (though earlier hed said he didnt have time to think). 12:07 - Nel: A reasonable person would have checked on Reeva... OP agrees that he didnt establish if Reeva was scared. 12:06 - You were right next to her in a situation of danger, Nel says. OP says he wasnt, he was on the other side of the bedroom. I was overcome by fear, I had to keep my eye on the passage. I didnt have time to think, OP explains. 12:06 - OP says he wanted to put himself between Reeva and the intruders. Nel: So why didnt you check on her? 12:04 - Nel says OP invented a discussion with Reeva. Nel had a minute ago asked: Why didnt you mention in you bail app that you spoke to Reeva? OP: I cant explain. OP sounds absolutely exhausted. And there might be more than a hint of defeat there too. 12:04 - Nel says if OP cared about Reeva he would have made sure she was in the bed. He denies this. 12:03 - After getting his gun, he whispered/ said in a soft tone to Reeva to get down and call the police. My intention was to put myself between Reeva and the people in the bathroom. 12:02 - OP says he had to bend down a bit to get his gun next to his bed. 12:01 - OP confirms he has a good memory up until the time he fired the shots at Reeva. Thereafter, not so good. 12:01 - Court resumes. Judge asks OP if hes ready to continue. He says he is. 11:55 - OP walks out of court, say reporters there. 11:53 - Court adjourns to give OP time to recover. 11:52 - Nel asks if OP is OK, not emotional. Are you getting emotional? OP, his voice breaking, says: I am. Because this is the night I lost the person I care about (that were talking about)! I dont know why people dont understand that! 11:51 - I would have kicked, bumped the fan if it was in the place where its displayed in this picture - OP says. 11:50 - I would have kicked the fan if it was in the position it is shown in, OP says. 11:49 - Nel even if the fans were in the position you indicated, they would have been in your way when running to the balcony. OP: I can’t remember the fans being in the way or knocking anything. 11:48 - Pistorius says out of habit he puts his clothing on top of his prosthetic legs, he does it next to the track as well... 11:47 - Nel: Why did you put vest on prosthetic legs? OP: I usually do that. 11:46 - Nel asks about clothing towards the back of the photo. OP says its his vest. 11:45 - The Oscar Pistorius Trial – A Carte Blanche Channel 199 gives DStv Premium, Extra, Compact and Compact Plus subscribers insight into the Oscar Pistorius Trial. 11:44 - Another photo of a part of the bed is shown. The fan can also be seen and OPs iPad is on the floor. 11:42 - OP: if it was on top and Col van Rensburgs evidence isnt admissible, then yes.... 11:42 - Nel: Up until today where did you think the jeans were? OP: When I looked at these photos all I saw were inconsistencies 11:40 - The court says it LOOKS as if the jeans is on top of the duvet, says Nel. This would create a problem for OPs version of events, says Nel. 11:40 - OP agrees that it does appear that the jeans are on top of the duvet. 11:39 - Roux stresses he wants Nel to not state factually about the jeans. He needs to point out that its his (Nels) interpretation. 11:38 - Nel shows photo from another angle, adamant that the corner of the duvet is under the jeans. 11:35 - Nel zooms in on the photo. It does appear the jeans is on top if the duvet. 11:33 - The state appears to have prepared a magnification of the picture. 11:32 - Court resumes. Nel still cross-examining OP.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:10:50 +0000
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