With tears trickling down his face, Oscar Pistorius told the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday his version of an argument on WhatsApp with his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.<\/p>\n
“I just think it was a bad day in our relationship,” said Pistorius after reading out Steenkamp’s text to him sent on January 27 at 4.17pm.<\/p>\n
He had started reading the text fluently, but faltered when he came to parts where Steenkamp wrote: “I am the girl who fell in love with you and wanted to tell you this weekend.”<\/p>\n
The court has heard through State data analyst Francois Moller that Steenkamp said she was “scared” of Pistorius after an incident at her friend’s party.<\/p>\n
She complained that there appeared to “double standards” in their relationship and that he was telling her how to behave.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Pistorius said they had gone to friend Darren Fresco’s engagement party but Pistorius had to pick up her friend who was running late.<\/p>\n
He had said they would leave at a certain time and towards the end of the engagement party they were walking out of the venue and Steenkamp started talking to an “unknown person”.<\/p>\n
“She didn’t introduce me. I made my presence known and again she didn’t introduce me.<\/p>\n
“I think that maybe I was sensitive and felt insecure and jealous,” he explained.<\/p>\n
Steenkamp started tickling his neck but, said Pistorius, “I wasn’t kind to her”.<\/p>\n
They left and instead of her spending the night at his home in Pretoria as planned, she went back to her house.<\/p>\n
“She was also in a short mood with me so instead I dropped her off at her place.”<\/p>\n
Steenkamp then sent the message.<\/p>\n
Pistorius is charged with murdering her by shooting her through a toilet door at his home.<\/p>\n
He is also charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and two counts of discharging a firearm in public.<\/p>\n
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
He has denied guilt on all charges.<\/p>\n
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