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Oscar Pistorius listens to evidence by a pathologist in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday. Themba Hadebe, Pool/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
‘I was simply trying to protect Reeva,’ Pistorius tells her family Blade Runner testifies. Double-amputee says he has been taking antidepressants and has trouble sleeping His voice shaking, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand Monday for the first time, testifying that he was trying to protect the girlfriend he killed and that he became so tormented by memories of the fatal shooting and panic attacks that he once hid helplessly in a closet. Pistorius also offered an apology to the family of Reeva Steenkamp, who died from multiple wounds after the double-amputee runner
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“I climbed into a cupboard and I phoned my sister to come and sit by me, which she did.” Oscar Pistorius, describing at his trial in South Africa how he hid in a closet after waking up in “a panic” one night.
shot her through a closed toilet door last year in his home. He said he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder. “I was simply trying to protect Reeva,” the athlete said as Steenkamp’s mother, June, looked impassively at him in the courtroom. “I can promise that when she went to bed that night she felt loved,” Pistorius said. Pistorius’ display of anguish and remorse was a marked departure from the testimony of some prosecution witnesses whose accounts painted a picture of the runner as a hothead with a jealous streak, an inflated sense of entitlement and an obsession with guns. Pistorius, 27, spoke in a soft, quavering voice at the start of his testimony, forcing Judge Thokozile Masipa to ask him to speak more loudly. Defence lawyer Barry Roux, who had aggressively challenged prosecution witnesses since the trial began March 3, led Pistorius gently through events in a life that was held up, in the runner’s heyday, as an inspiring tale. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS