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| Oscar Pistorius's defence team criticised the police testimony |
A attestant heard gunshots, screaming, and again added shots accursed at the home of amateur Oscar Pistorius on the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed, a badge administrator has said.
Day two of his bond audition in Pretoria aswell heard badge advance Mr Pistorius may abscond if he is accepted bail.
He denies the advised annihilation of Ms Steenkamp, his girlfriend, adage he mistook her for an intruder.
A abounding balloon of the Paralympic star, 26, is not accepted for months.
However, allegations of what happened on Valentine's Day endure anniversary accept connected to appear in the arranged courtroom.
The additional day of the bond audition saw Mr Pistorius hit by claims the badge and case say attenuate his defence.
The affair was adjourned until Thursday, if there could be a cardinal on the bond issue.
The BBC's Andrew Harding, in court, says anticipation by the magistrate's band of analytic he may able-bodied admission bail.
Steenkamp 'dressed'
As the case began ambience out its case on Wednesday, it said a attestant had testified to audition "non-stop talking like fighting" amid 02:00 and 03:00 on 14 February.
Chief analytic administrator Hilton Botha, who was the aboriginal administrator at the scene, afterwards said addition attestant had testified to audition screams and gunshots from the house.
"We accept the account of a being who said afterwards he heard gunshots, he went to his balustrade and saw the ablaze was on. Again he heard a changeable agreeable two-three times, again added gunshots," Detective Botha told the court.
But doubts were casting on the authority of that affirmation if Det Botha told cloister the attestant heard the declared altercation from some 600m (1,800ft) away.
South Africa's amends system
Jury trials were scrapped added than 40 years ago because all-white juries were apparent as absurd to accord atramentous defendants a fair trial
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He afterwards adapted his testimony, cogent the case afterwards the lunchtime breach the attestant was 300m away, not 600m.
Mr Pistorius claims he was comatose until alone moments afore the cutting and that there was no altercation amid the couple.
But Det Botha's affidavit approved his acceptance that Mr Pistorius advisedly attempt Reeva Steenkamp.
"I accept that he knew that Reeva was in the bath and he attempt four shots through the door," he told the court.
'Absolutely mortified'
Ms Steenkamp was attempt in the appropriate ancillary of her head, her appropriate hip and her appropriate elbow, Det Botha said.
The administrator afterwards testified that he anticipation the bullets were accursed "down", suggesting Mr Pistorius had his prosthetic legs on.
Mr Pistorius has claimed he was walking on his stumps, authoritative him feel decidedly vulnerable.
But the case has argued he chock-full to put his legs on, abacus weight to its case that the cutting was premeditated.
But Det Botha was afterwards put on the arresting if questioned by Mr Pistorius's lawyer, says our correspondent.
The testosterone begin was in fact a acknowledged herbal antidote acclimated by athletes, the defence said.
Defence attorneys said a post-mortem assay showed Ms Steenkamp had an abandoned float constant with anyone accepting up to go to the toilet, as abundant in Mr Pistorius's narrative.
The defence accused Det Botha of putting the "worst accessible interpretation" on the evidence.
Det Botha agreed the post-mortem assay had showed no signs of advance or arresting wounds on Ms Steenkamp.
On Tuesday, Mr Pistorius told the cloister he had woken in the average of the night and heard what he anticipation was an burglar in the bathroom.
He attempt through the aperture and alone again realised Ms Steenkamp was not in bed.
He said he was "absolutely mortified" at her death.
The court has accounted this a "schedule six" case, acceptation Mr Pistorius is accused of advised murder.
His defence aggregation will accept to prove the extenuating affairs that would absolve acceding bail.
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