PRETORIA, South Africa - In a day of potentially damaging testimony, a former
girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius said at his murder trial Friday that he once shot
his gun out of a car sunroof and later cheated on her with the woman he killed
last year.
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guard recalled the athlete telling him everything was "fine" after neighbours
reported gunshots coming from Pistorius house on the night of her death. The
gripping accounts capped the first week of the televised trial of the
double-amputee Olympian, whose chief defence lawyer has tried to sow doubt about
the testimony of neighbours who said they heard a womans screams before
gunshots. Proceedings have also focused on past incidents involving alleged
gunplay, part of an apparent prosecution effort to portray Pistorius, 27, as a
hothead who sometimes thought he was above authority. Prosecutors say he
intentionally killed Reeva Steenkamp during an argument, but he insists it was a
mistake, and that he fired through the locked toilet door in his bathroom
believing an intruder was behind it. The security guard, Pieter Baba, testified
that he telephoned Pistorius after the reported gunshots in the pre-dawn hours
of Feb. 14, 2013, and that the athlete assured him in their brief conversation:
"Security, everything is fine." Moments later, Baba said, Pistorius phoned him
back, started crying and didnt say anything and then the line went dead. It was
minutes after he shot Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model. "Not everything was in
order as Mr. Pistorius was telling me," Baba recalled saying to a fellow guard
as they were outside the runners villa. Earlier, ex-girlfriend Samantha Taylor,
who cried twice during her time on the stand in the Pretoria court, said
Pistorius always carried a firearm when they dated and sometimes shouted angrily
at her and her friends. There were murmurs in court when Taylor said their
relationship ended because Pistorius cheated on her with Steenkamp. Taylor said
she started going out with Pistorius in 2011 when she was 17 and that the
relationship ended in November 2012. She described some of Pistorius habits,
including what side of the bed he slept on at home, the fact that he placed his
gun on the bedside table or next to his prostheses on the floor at night and how
he would balance against things if he was walking on his stumps. Pistorius was
born without fibula bones because of a congenital defect, and his legs were
amputated when he was 11 months old. He ran on carbon-fiber blades and is a
multiple Paralympic medallist . He also competed at the London Olympics but
didnt win a medal. Taylor described one occasion in which Pistorius fired his
gun out of a sunroof soon after a policeman stopped their car for speeding. She
also mentioned another incident in which she and Pistorius were followed by a
car as he drove home. "When we arrived at his estate, he jumped out of the car
with his gun and held it to someones window, and then they drove away," Taylor
said. Defence lawyer Barry Roux raised the possibility that Pistorius was trying
to protect Taylor, though she said did not feel threatened. Taylor also
described problems in her relationship with Pistorius, the first amputee to run
in the Olympics. "He cheated on me with Reeva Steenkamp," Taylor said. The court
later adjourned briefly after Taylor broke down in tears while describing how
Pistorius had earlier cheated on her with a different woman, and then again when
she cried while discussing her problems with him. Roux, the defence lawyer, said
he would produce emails between Taylor and Pistorius to show that her testimony
was untrue, and he also sought to highlight apparent gaps in Taylors memory of
the alleged sunroof gunfire in September 2012. Roux said Pistorius denies the
shooting took place. Taylor also described previous incidents when Pistorius
thought there was an intruder trying to get into his home, saying he reacted by
waking her up. "There was one occasion when something hit the bathroom window
and Oscar woke me up and asked me if I heard it," Taylor said. "He got up with
his gun." But he woke you up, asked prosecutor Gerrie Nel. "Yes. There was
probably one or two occasions when he woke me up to ask me if I heard
something," Taylor replied. Pistorius did not attempt to wake or locate
Steenkamp before he shot her by mistake, according to his own version of events.
On the night Steenkamp died, security guard Baba said he drove from the main
gate of the gated community to Pistorius home with a colleague after neighbours
called to report sounds like gunshots from that direction. A few minutes after
Babas two brief phone calls with Pistorius, two other people showed up: Johan
Stander, a manager of the housing complex whom Pistorius says he called to get
an ambulance, and Standers daughter. The group went to the front door of the
house and someone pushed it open. Baba said he saw Pistorius coming down the
stairs, carrying the bloodied Steenkamp. "I was so shocked," Baba said. "I
started regaining my senses when Mr. Stander said Oscar."
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