Pistorius Trial: Evidence Summary
Updated: 1:39pm UK, Friday 14 March 2014
A summary of the evidence heard in the first 10 days of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial.
:: Day 10
Photographs of Oscar Pistorius taken after Reeva Steenkamp's death are seen in court, showing him drenched in blood from the waist down.
An image of his girlfriend's injuries was again shown by mistake, forcing television screens in the courtroom to be blacked out.
Evidence from retired police colonel Schoombie van Rensburg dominated the day's proceedings.
He repeatedly denied tampering with evidence but admitted a white iPhone which was obscured by a towel when he first entered the room appeared to have been moved for a later photo, showing the handset lying in clear view on the bathroom floor.
During cross-examination by defence lawyer Barry Roux, he also failed to spot a door in Pistorius' home had been sealed in different ways in two photographs.
:: Day Nine
There were gasps in court as images of Ms Steenkamp's body, including close-ups of her various injuries, were accidentally shown.
Ms van Rensburg, who went to Pistorius' home after the shooting, used photographs to outline the route he took through the house.
The court was shown images of the blood-soaked bathroom where Ms Steenkamp was shot, as well as blood-stained towels and pools of blood on the floor.
Mr Roux grilled South African police forensic expert Johannes Vermuelen about missing splinters from Pistorius' bathroom door, through which he shot Ms Steenkamp.
He said he asked a colleague about the missing splinters but repeatedly said he "couldn't remember" who he spoke to.
:: Day Eight
Mr Vermuelen knelt down in court and swung Pistorius' cricket bat at the door as part of a reconstruction of the night in question.
He said the angle of the marks on the door suggest they could only have been made by someone much shorter than him.
It appeared to contradict his earlier affidavit in which he stated he had put on his prostheses before smashing down the door.
Mr Vermuelen said: "The marks on the door are actually consistent with him not having his legs on and I suspect they must be similar to the height that he was when he fired the shots."
But Mr Roux suggested that even with his legs on, Pistorius would not be swinging a bat at the same height as an able-bodied person.
:: Day Seven
Friend Darren Fresco told the court Pistorius "laughed" after firing his gun through the sunroof of a car.
Mr Fresco said he asked Pistorius if he was "******* mad".
"He just laughed about what had happened," he said, referring to the episode in late 2012. "It felt as if my ear was bleeding."
The court was told the athlete had a "big love for weapons" and Mr Fresco also recalled an occasion when Pistorius asked him to pass him his gun at Tasha's restaurant in Johannesburg on January 13 last year.
He said he warned Pistorius his Glock pistol was "one-up" - meaning it had a bullet in the chamber - and that he thought he saw the runner remove it.
The gun went off under the table, followed by a "deafening hush" and Pistorius "instantly" passed the weapon back to him and asked him to "take the rap for it" because there was "too much media hype" around him, Mr Fresco said.
Pathologist Gert Saymaan, who conducted a post-mortem examination on Ms Steenkamp, also finished giving his evidence as a court ban on tweeting during his account was lifted by Judge Thokozile Masipa.
The court heard the amount of urine in Ms Steenkamp's bladder at the time of her death amounted to the rough equivalent of a teaspoon, and that the model's last meal was consumed no more than two hours before her death.
Ms Steenkamp was shot after 3am, which means she must have eaten after 1am. Pistorius had said the couple were in the bedroom by 10pm.
Prof Saayman admitted he was not "an expert in this field" but his conclusions were based on scientific probability.
:: Day Six
Pistorius threw up in court as details of the post-mortem examination of Ms Steenkamp were read out.
A live video feed of the trial was cut while a pathologist gave "graphic" evidence of his examination.
Professor Gert Saayman said Ms Steenkamp had bullet wounds to her head, right hip and right arm.
He said the Ranger-branded bullets used were designed to "expand and mushroom" and cause substantial damage.
Prof Saayman said the head wound would have been incapacitating but added Ms Steenkamp may not have died straight away.
Earlier in the day, a security guard finished giving his evidence.
Pieter Baba says Pistorius told him all was fine when he called after receiving reports from other residents of gunshots.
But Mr Roux insisted to him it was Pistorius who phoned the security guard, rather than the other way round.
Mr Baba denied this.
:: Day Five
Prosecution witness Samantha Taylor, the ex-girlfriend of Pistorius, broke down in court as she told how the athlete cheated on her with Reeva Steenkamp.
Miss Taylor also told the court how Pistorius once fired a gun out of the sunroof of a car after being stopped by police.
The star's ex-lover described how Pistorius would sometimes "scream at her" and often carried a gun with him.
The court was told how Pistorius once woke Ms Taylor fearing there was an intruder in the house and got up to investigate with his gun.
Security guard Pieter Baba described the moment he saw a distressed Pistorius carrying Reeva down the stairs.
The guard said Pistorius assured him everything was "fine" after shots were reported.
More evidence from Ms Taylor suggested Pistorius once feared he was being followed and waved his gun at the suspect car until it drove off near his home.
:: Day Four
Prosecution witness Dr Johan Stipp told the court how he went to Pistorius' residence after hearing shots fired on the night Ms Steenkamp was killed.
He said he saw her lying on her back and Pistorius by her side, frantically trying to resuscitate her.
It was clear Ms Steenkamp was mortally wounded, he said, and Pistorius was crying and praying she would survive.
During his evidence, Pistorius broke down in the dock, sobbing as he held his head in his hands.
Earlier, Pistorius' defence team said it would have been "impossible" for neighbours to hear screams on the night Ms Steenkamp died.
Mr Roux said neighbour Charl Peter Johnson's claim that he heard gunshots followed by a woman screaming was incorrect.
"You cannot hear it inside your house," he said. "At any distance, she was in a locked bathroom."
Mr Johnson also claimed to have heard five or six shots on the night of the killing.
But Mr Roux pointed out that in his initial notes he wrote he "did not count the number of shots fired".
:: Day Three
Mr Johnson was repeatedly challenged by Mr Roux, who at one point said: "You are saying all the evidence that your wife gave us yesterday."
He replied it was not unusual for two people to use the same words when describing an incident.
He mentioned some notes he had taken after the shooting, which are on his laptop and iPad. He was asked to end his evidence for the day and come back the next day, so the defence team had the opportunity to view his notes.
Pistorius' friend Kevin Lerena was then called and described an incident in January last year in which Pistorius allegedly discharged a firearm by mistake while eating with friends in a restaurant.
He said the athlete then asked Mr Fresco to take the blame.
The owner of the restaurant, Jason Loupis, and his wife, Maria, later confirmed the incident after taking the stand.
Mrs Loupis said there was a child nearby when Pistorius' gun went off in the restaurant.
:: Day Two
The evidence of Ms Burger continued.
Mr Roux said her evidence had been influenced by media coverage of the shooting but she denied this.
Mr Roux said evidence later in the trial would show Ms Steenkamp would not have been able to scream after the final shot hit her in the head.
Ms Burger stood by her initial statement, which said she heard Ms Steenkamp after the final shot.
Another neighbour then took the stand for a short time before Ms Burger's husband gave his evidence.
He told how he thought Pistorius and Ms Steenkamp were being held up in their house and said he looked at additional security measures for his own home the next day.
He backed up his wife's evidence, saying he heard screams after the final shot.
:: Day One
The first witness, university lecturer Michelle Burger, took the stand.
She says she woke on the night of the killing to the sound of gunshots and a woman screaming.
She described hearing "bloodcurdling screams" and four shots.
She is a key witness for the prosecution, as her evidence would appear to contradict Pistorius' claims that he thought he was shooting at an intruder.
The defence argued she is unreliable due to alleged discrepancies between her police statement and court testimony.
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