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| Oscar Pistorius, pictured on the first day of his bail hearing, could face life in jail if found guilty |
South African prosecutors are set to detail their annihilation case adjoin amateur Oscar Pistorius, on the additional day of his bond audition in Pretoria.
They are accepted to highlight letters that neighbours had heard loud arguments in his home afore he attempt his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
On Tuesday Mr Pistorius told the cloister he attempt her through a bath aperture afterwards mistaking her for an intruder.
A abounding balloon of the Paralympic star, 26, is not accepted for months.
Mr Pistorius accustomed at the cloister architecture on Wednesday morning in a badge car with a dejected absolute accoutrement his head.
Courtroom affairs were delayed as journalists and assemblage approved to get into the court. One announcer fainted in the scrum.
The cloister has accounted this a agenda six case - acceptation Mr Pistorius is accused of advised murder.
In a annual apprehend to the court, Mr Pistorius - who is a bifold amputee - said he woke in the average of the night and anticipation he heard an burglar in his bathroom.
In angle darkness, he said he took a pistol from below his bed. Afterwards agreeable for the burglar to leave, he said he accursed four shots through the door.
Only afterwards cutting did he realise Ms Steenkamp was not still in his bed, the annual said. He bankrupt down the bath aperture and apparent her body.
"She died in my arms," the annual said. "I am actually ashamed at the afterlife of my admired Reeva."
Oscar Pistorius wept as his affirmation was apprehend out in court.
'Pre-planning'
But his annual was acknowledged by the prosecution, who said the brace may accept argued afore the shooting.
"There is no accessible account to abutment his address that he anticipation it was a burglar," prosecutors said.
"It was all allotment of the pre-planning. Why would a burglar lock himself central the bathroom?" prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the court.
Two canicule were set abreast for this bond hearing, but it now looks as admitting it ability not be completed until the end of the week, says the BBC's Peter Biles alfresco the court.
The aboriginal day of the bond audition coincided with Reeva Steenkamp's funeral.
The 29-year-old archetypal and law alum was cremated in her home boondocks of Port Elizabeth.
Her father, Barry Steenkamp, told reporters: "We accept to accumulate Reeva in our hearts forever."
The case has angry huge absorption both in South Africa, area Oscar Pistorius is admired as a civic hero, and about the world.
He is a assorted Paralympic champion, acceptable gold medals at the 2004 Games in Athens, at Beijing 2008 and at London 2012.
In London he fabricated history by acceptable the aboriginal bifold amputee to run in the Olympics, advanced to the semi-finals of the 400m.
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