Friday, 9 May 2014

Oscar Pistorius watches in despair as ballistics expert acts out Reeva's last moments in courtroom reconstruction - behind the very door he shot her through

Former police officer Wollie Wolmarans played the part of the 29-year-old model behind the very toilet door the Paralympian shot her through on Valentine's Day last year.
The Paralympian held his head in the dock (top right) as Wollie Wolmarans (left) testified that the pattern of wood splinter marks around a gunshot wound on Steenkamp's right arm indicated that the arm was between six and 20 centimeters from the door. His testimony differed with a police ballistics expert, who said earlier at the murder trial that the wound was inflicted on Miss Steenkamp (inset) further away as she fell back in the toilet cubicle and protectively covered her head with her arms. His opinion was being used by the defense to show that Steenkamp may have been reaching out with her arm to open the cubicle door when she was hit. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel (bottom right) himself acted out a possible scenario about how Pistorius might have fired at Miss Steenkamp.

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