New York Times: Track star Oscar Pistorius denied that he intended to take his girlfriend’s life when he shot through a closed bathroom door at his home last week.
New York Times: Track star Oscar Pistorius denied that he intended to take his girlfriend’s life when he shot through a closed bathroom door at his home last week.
“I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premeditated,” he said in an affidavit read to the packed courtroom by his defense lawyer, Barry Roux, “I had no intention to kill my girlfriend.”
His assertion contradicted an earlier accusation from the prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, that Mr. Pistorius committed premeditated murder when he rose from his bed, pulled on artificial legs, walked more than 20 feet from his bedroom and pumped four bullets into the door, three of which struck his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on the other side.
