Police cellphone analyst Captain Francois Moller began testifying on Monday afternoon in Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial in the High Court in Pretoria.<\/p>\n
He gave evidence on phones given to him after Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead on Valentine’s Day last year.<\/p>\n
After being sworn in, Moller said he was given four cellphones — two Blackberries and two iPhones, and two iPads and a Macbook computer on February 15 by investigating officer Warrant Officer Hilton Botha.<\/p>\n
Botha was taken off the case and later resigned.<\/p>\n
Moller identified Steenkamp’s cell number which ended with the digits 5353 by going through the last dialled list on Pistorius’s phone.<\/p>\n
He took the SIM cards out of the devices so that they were removed from the network and there could be no communication with or tampering with the devices.<\/p>\n
He was under the impression that was the only phone belonging to Steenkamp.<\/p>\n
He allocated the number 0020 to that specific device.<\/p>\n
Further investigating required applying for Section 205 data access from the service provider to the police.<\/p>\n
Moller said he found out that the number was incorrect and the cellphone seized at the crime scene was a number ending with 4949.<\/p>\n
He said he only received three sets of detailed billing although he had applied for four numbers.<\/p>\n
He realised the handset belonging to Pistorius had a different number, 4949, and he had a second cellphone with the number 2020 that was not seized from the crime scene.<\/p>\n
He said the two Blackberry devices seized from the crime scene were last used late 2012, two months before Steenkamp’s fatal shooting.<\/p>\n
He found the two SIM cards inserted in the Blackberry devices were cards inserted through a SIM swop. He said a SIM swop was used either when a phone is stolen or if a person started using another phone with a smaller SIM card than the Blackberry.<\/p>\n
Pistorius has been charged with the murder of Steenkamp and contraventions of the Firearms Control Act. He allegedly fired a shot from a Glock pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013.<\/p>\n
On September 30, 2012 he allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car with his 9mm pistol while driving with friends in Modderfontein.<\/p>\n
Pistorius is also charged with firing a gun in a public place, at Tasha’s restaurant in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, in January 2013.<\/p>\n
He allegedly asked his friend Darren Fresco to take the blame for the shot that went off.<\/p>\n
Moller extracted data from both Steenkamp’s and Pistorius’s iPhones found in the athlete’s home on February 14 that year.<\/p>\n
Pistorius sent a message to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp asking her “not to say a thing”, the High Court heard.<\/p>\n
“Angel, please don’t say a thing to anyone, Darren told everyone it was his fault. The guys promised they wouldn’t say anything,” Moller read from a WhatsApp message Pistorius sent to Steenkamp on January 11, 2013 at 3.03pm South African time.<\/p>\n
Pistorius and Steenkamp exchanged a few messages, before she replied: “I won’t always think before I say something, just appreciate that I’m not a liar.”<\/p>\n
As Moller read other, longer messages between the couple that revealed conflict between the couple, Pistorius bowed his head and cried quietly.<\/p>\n
Pistorius has been charged with murder and contraventions of the Firearms Control Act.<\/p>\n
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