STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Gory autopsy details and photographs of the crime scene shown at the trial
- Oscar Pistorius is charged with murder in the slaying of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp
- He says her shooting death was an accident, not premeditated murder
- The bathroom door through which she was shot was reassembled in court
As it entered its second week, theOscar Pistorius murder trial turned into an episode of "CSI," replete with gory autopsy details and photographs of the crime scene. Even the bathroom door through which he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was reassembled and put up in court.
Drama from the trial came from a police expert swinging Pistorius' cricket bat at the door in court to try to determine whether he was wearing his prosthetic legs when he did it. It came as well from detailed descriptions of the damage hollow-tip bullets do to human flesh.
And then, of course, there was the effect of the evidence on Pistorius himself, who spent hours vomiting as he was forced to relive seeing Steenkamp's mortal wounds.
The sprinter admits that he killed Steenkamp, his 29-year-old girlfriend of about four months, on Valentine's Day 2013 but says it was a terrible accident, not premeditated murder.
No comments:
Post a Comment