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Oscar Pistorius fired girlfriend in restaurant
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Oscar Pistorius fired girlfriend in restaurant. Oscar Pistorius fired a gun in a restaurant, grazing a friend’s foot, and then asked someone else to take the blame, the third day of the South African athlete’s murder trial heard Wednesday.
Pretoria: Oscar Pistorius fired a gun in a restaurant, grazing a friend’s foot, and then asked someone else to take the blame, the third day of the South African athlete’s murder trial heard Wednesday. Professional boxer Kevin Lerena testified that Pistorius fired a bullet under a table at an upmarket Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013, a month before he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day.
“A shot went off in the restaurant, then there was just complete silence,” Lerena, 21, the state’s fourth witness told the South African High Court in Pretoria. “I looked down, and just where my foot was stationary, there was a hole in the floor,” said Lerena, testifying about one of three other gun-related charges against Pistorius. “I had a little graze on my toe. I wasn’t hurt or injured,” he said, but added that “there was blood.”
The Paralympian apologised profusely, then asked another friend, the owner of the gun, to take the blame. “Please, I don’t want any attention around me. Just say it was you,” he pleaded, according to Lerena.
Pistorius has denied intentionally killing Steenkamp and has pleaded not guilty to the other charges, including one of firing a gun through a moving car’s sunroof and to illegal possession of ammunition. The state is expected to use these incidents to illustrate past reckless behaviour in their argument to prove the runner planned to kill his girlfriend.
On Wednesday, his defence also sought to prove that a married couple who heard screams on the night of Reeva Steenkamp’s death colluded in their testimony, hoping to discredit key witnesses. Pistorius’ lawyer Barry Roux attempted to show written statements and testimony from Charl Johnson and Michelle Burger contained “remarkable coincidences” that could not be accidental.
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