25 March 2014 Last updated at 12:45 The lawyer of Oscar Pistorius, the South African athlete accused of murdering his girlfriend, has denied claims the couple were unhappy. Barry Roux emphasised that among hundreds of loving text messages, only four showed signs of arguments. He made his case while cross- examining a police captain who had given evidence about the couples mobile phones. Mr Pistorius denies deliberately shooting Reeva Steenkamp last February, saying he thought she was an intruder. The prosecution has now ended its case and the trial has been adjourned until Friday. The defence is particularly focusing on text messages and calls extracted from the couples mobile phones by police Capt Francois Moller. Mr Pistorius previously said he had forgotten the password to his iPhone and investigators went to the US shortly before the trial began to meet Apple officials to try and gain access to it. Jealous and possessive Mr Roux tried to demonstrate that Mr Pistorious and Ms Steenkamp had arguments but these were soon resolved, the BBCs Pumza Fihlani reports from court in Pretoria. Many of the text messages exchanged between the couple were affectionate in tone and showed they were in love, the defence argued on Tuesday. On Monday Capt Moller revealed he had been able to extract some 35,000 pages worth of messages from Ms Steenkamps phone. He said that 90% of the messages between the couple were loving, but he had picked out exceptions. In one message sent on 27 January 2013, Ms Steenkamp wrote : Im scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me and of how you react to me.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:35:19 +0000
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