Oscar Pistorius has admitted he had "no reason" to fire the shots that killed Reeva Steenkamp.
The Paralympian faced a second day of questioning in his murder trial in South Africa today (10.04.14), and he accepted that he had no excuse for firing the four shots at his toilet door which resulted in the death of his girlfriend.
Towards the end of the morning’s proceedings, the chief prosecutor said: "We know for a fact you had no reason to shoot, objectively."
The 27-year-old sprinter’s defence has been that he mistook Reeva for an intruder when he heard noises coming from his bathroom window before hearing the toilet door slam shut.
However, he appeared to accept defeat when he agreed with the prosecution, saying: "That is correct."
He has repeatedly insisted that he believed there was a burglar in his home and claims after he went to get his firearm from his bedroom, where he believed Reeva was still in bed, he shouted to her to phone the police, and fired the weapon "by accident" while yelling at the intruder through the door.
Oscar said: "If Reeva had come out or she had spoken to me I wouldn’t have fired."
The prosecutor also revisited a number of Whatsapp phone messages that had been exchanged between the pair in which Reeva stated that she sometimes felt scared of the star and that he had "picked on" her "incessantly" following a trip together.
The Paralympic athlete – who claims he didn’t have his prosthetic legs on during the incident and was walking on his stumps – apologised to his victim’s family yesterday (09.04.14), but her mother June Steenkamp has dismissed his words, insisting she was "unmoved" by his comments.
She said: "It won’t bring my daughter back. We just want to know the truth."
Oscar fatally shot Reeva, 29, through a closed toilet cubicle in his home in Pretoria, South Africa in the early hours of February 14 last year and faces 25 years in jail if found guilty of premeditated murder, according to Channel 4 News.
Oscar Pistorius had ‘no reason’ to fire shots
