#OscarPistorius #defence #setsoutcase. Oscar Pistorius #trial – #liveupdates Full coverage of #dayfive of the #SouthAfrican #athlete’s trial for the #murder of his #girlfriend, #ReevaSteenkamp, in #Pretoria on #Valentine’s Day 2013 • #Thursday’s #events, as they #happened • #Witness #describes #finding Steenkamp’s #body Share 39 Tweet this Email Tshepo Mokoena theguardian, Friday 7 March 2014 13.18 GMT Print this Watch the trial via our live stream 8.56am GMT Trial adjourned for tea Brief analysis: Roux’s aggressive questioning has started to show that, as is relatively uncommon for a murder trial, the defence has come out on the offensive. Rather than wait for prosecutor Nel to present his case, Roux is focusing on the number of shots witnesses claim to have heard and whether they may have confused the sound of gunshots with that of Pistorius’s cricket bat smashing through his bathroom door. Summary of the morning’s events: • Witness Johan Stipp took to the stand again, and recounted the order in which he heard screams and gunshots on the night of the murder • Roux questioned Stipp in order to show inconsistencies between Stipp’s first and second statements, in relation to the number of gunshots he heard and whether he heard screams before, after and during the first set of shots • Roux implied that screams would not have carried as far as the inside of Stipp’s bedroom, and uses sound tests conducted on 21 February to back up his point • Nel re-examined Stipp, using Pistorius’s bail application as a guide to align Pistorius’s own account of events with Stipp’s 8.45am GMT After a brief re-examination, Nel finishes questioning Stipp and asks Judge Masipa for the court to adjourn early for tea. 8.35am GMT Prosecutor Gerrie Nel has now taken over questioning witness Stipp, and is recounting Pistorius’s version of events. Updated at 8.36am GMT 8.31am GMT Roux, as in previous days on the trial, presents the argument that Stipp heard fewer shots on the second occasion than on the first. Roux: First time, you woke up and heard three shots. Second time, two or three, youre not sure. You cant say with certainty two or three. — David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) March 7, 2014 Updated at 8.33am GMT 8.13am GMT Roux: when someone is in that locked toilet you would not hear woman screaming...not so distinct that you can make out emotions #oscartrial — Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) March 7, 2014 8.08am GMT Roux now moves on from the bathroom window to sound tests done on 21 February: a woman was screaming as loud as she could, to replicate the sounds witnesses have reported hearing on the night of the murder. Roux: On 21 of February there were tests done. Part of the test was a woman screaming as loud as she could. Did you hear that? #Pistorius — David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) March 7, 2014 Stipp: I heard voices... I heard a mans voice. #Pistorius — David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) March 7, 2014 Updated at 8.09am GMT 8.04am GMT Roux spends a few minutes asking Stipp to clarify what he saw when looking across from his balcony to Pistorius’s house on the night of the murder. Stipp maintains he saw a person move from right to left in a bathroom window, and Roux asks him to point out the precise window pane in an evidence photograph. 7.55am GMT Stipp recounts whether he heard screams before, during or after the phone call he made to security, after he’d heard the first series of gunshots. From our Africa correspondent, David Smith: Stipp: I heard the boom, boom, boom. I didnt hear any screaming after that, no. #Pistorius — David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) March 7, 2014 Roux: Did you hear loud, bloodcurdling screams? Stipp: Not at the moment, no. #Pistorius — David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) March 7, 2014 Updated at 7.56am GMT 7.45am GMT Roux asks Stipp about the number of screams that Stipp believes he heard on the night of the murder, based on two separate statements Stipp gave. Roux is trying to show that Stipp’s statements do not match the evidence he gave on the sequence of events he witnessed and heard in his bedroom. From Eyewitness News reporter Barry Bateman: #OscarPistorius Stipp insists that he heard shots, saw lights and the screams… BB — Barry Bateman (@barrybateman) March 7, 2014 And ABC News international affairs correspondent Hamish Macdonald: Roux: your evidence would not accord with what you had said earlier #OscarTrial — Hamish Macdonald (@hamishNews) March 7, 2014 Updated at 7.46am GMT 7.34am GMT And court is now in session. Judge Thokozile Masipa begins by sternly telling off the public and press: “if you misbehave, you will be chucked out.” Roux is now cross-examining witness Stipp, starting with questions on how much time elapsed between the gunshots and screams that Stipp heard. 7.26am GMT Proceedings are due to begin soon, with witness Dr Johan Stipp under cross-examination by defence lawyer Barry Roux. Rouxs team sets up to cross-examine Dr Johan Stipp when court resumes for Day 5...journos ready #oscartrial pic.twitter/e2lgq5Hci8 — Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) March 7, 2014 7.16am GMT Oscar Pistorius has just arrived in court for day five of the trial. #OscarTrial — Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) March 7, 2014 7.10am GMT State prosecutor Gerrie Nel, looks at papers during day four of Oscar Pistoriuss murder trial in Pretoria. State prosecutor Gerrie Nel looks at papers during day four of Oscar Pistoriuss murder trial in Pretoria. Photograph: Marco Longari/Pool/EPA Before court reopens, here is a summary of yesterday’s key events: • The defence’s Barry Roux asked witness Charl Johnson about the discrepancies between his first and second accounts of the events on the night of the murder. • Roux suggested that the sounds Johnson heard after screams were Pistorius’s cricket bat breaking down his bathroom door, and not gunshots. • Prosecutor Gerrie Nel concluded that Johnson had no intent to incriminate Pistorius with his initial notes and testimony. • Roux and Nel both questioned witness Johan Stipp, Pistorius’s neighbour and a doctor, about his recollection of the sequence of events on the night of the murder. • Roux and Nel both used photographs taken from Stipp’s bedroom, where he heard gunshots and screams the night of the murder, to determine Stipp’s vantage point. • Roux suggested that Pistorius, anxious and distressed, could have produced the screams that Stipp identified as sounding female. • Finally, Roux and Nel argued over whether Stipp heard shots both before and after he heard screams, as Roux looked to posit that Steenkamp was too fatally wounded to have produced the screams Stipp says he heard. 7.07am GMT Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of the fifth day of Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial. The South African athlete stands accused of the murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in a shooting that took place at his home in Pretoria in the early hours of 14 February 2013. Our Africa correspondent David Smith will be tweeting live from court – you can follow him here. theguardian/world/2014/mar/07/oscar-pistorius-trial-live-updates-day-five?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-3%20Main%20trailblock:Network%20front%20-%20main%20trailblock:Position6
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