Photos show blood on Pistorius’ limbs
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POLICE photographs of Oscar Pistorius standing on his blood-stained prosthetic legs and wearing shorts covered in blood, taken shortly after the athlete fatally shot his girlfriend, were shown to the court at his murder trial in Pretoria yesterday.
Prosecutors displayed two photos on TV monitors in the courtroom. In one, the muscled Olympic athlete, who is shirtless, is standing facing the camera wearing his prosthetics. There are blood stains up to the knees of his limbs and his shorts are also bloodied, but his naked chest appears to be clean of blood.
A second photograph shows South African Olympian Pistorius from the waist up and from the left side, also showing blood on his shorts and parts of his body, with a tattoo visible on his back.
The photographs were taken in the garage of Pistorius’ Pretoria home where the athlete killed Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day last year, a former policeman testified.
Former police colonel GS van Rensburg described the early part of the police investigation into the shooting after he arrived at the scene around 30 to 40 minutes after prosecutors say Pistorius killed Steenkamp in the pre-dawn hours of February 14, 2013. The prosecution says Pistorius intentionally killed Steenkamp in an upstairs bathroom after a loud argument and then tried to cover it up by saying he thought the 29-year-old model was a dangerous intruder.
Pistorius, 27, maintains the killing was an accident and has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.
Van Rensburg, the former commander at a police station close to Pistorius’ home, said he didn’t arrest Pistorius immediately after discovering Steenkamp had been shot dead, but did warn him to remain at the house. “I told him I observed him as a suspect at that stage,” van Rensburg said. “I warned him of his rights.”
During the investigation in the bathroom, van Rensburg also said that he turned around at one point to see that the firearms expert had handled the gun Pistorius used to kill Steenkamp and taken the magazine out of the weapon without using gloves.
“I asked him, ‘What are you doing?’” van Rensburg testified. The officer realized his error, apologized, put the magazine back in the gun and laid it on the mat where it was on the floor. He then took the gloves out of his chest pocket, and again picked up the gun, van Rensburg said.
“I was very angry,” he added.
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