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South Africa: Oscar Pistorius pleads not guilty to murder
“I can only tell the court what I heard that evening,” Burger said. “I cannot understand how I could clearly hear a woman scream but Mr. Pistorius could not hear it.”
But Roux argued she had changed her testimony from the written statement she gave to police soon after the shooting, only adding “blood-curdling” as a description of the screams in court.
Pistorius earlier pleaded not guilty at the start of the trial to charges of murder and 3 other counts relating to shooting guns in public and illegal possession of ammunition. Wearing a dark gray suit and black tie, he spent the first 30 minutes of the first day of the trial at the high court in the South African capital standing before his defense lawyer, Barry Roux, asked the judge for permission for Pistorius to sit.
Pistorius’ murder trial was being broadcast live on TV in South Africa and across the world.
Source: Associated Press
