Day 1: 3 March 2014
The start of the trial. Oscar Pistorius denied the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his Pretoria home in the early hours of 14 February 2013.
Pistorius pleaded not guilty to the murder and to firearms charges, telling the court he denies the allegations of murder “in the strongest terms” and believed an intruder had broken into his house and was in his bathroom when he fired.
A witness told the trial that she heard “bloodcurdling screams” on the night the Paralympian shot his girlfriend dead. The witness, Michelle Burger, told the court she heard two people – a man and a woman – shouting, adding: “The fear in that woman's voice; you only fear like that if your life is threatened.”
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