Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial: Prosecutor Keeps The Pressure On Blade Runner — Who Admits He Blames Himself ‘For Taking Reeva's Life'
April 14 2014, Published 1:28 p.m. ET
An impassioned Oscar Pistorius, in his ongoing tête-à-tête with prosecutor Gerrie Nel Monday, told the court in his ongoing murder trial, “I did not fire at” girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, though later admitted he blamed himself “for taking Reeva's life."
The heated cross-examination continued in South Africa's Pretoria at the same feverish pitch it left off at the tail end of last week, with Nel deconstructing the athlete’s alibi, claiming that he’s fit his defense to the evidence in the case in contradictions to previous statements, and painting the Blade Runner, who broke down crying two times during Monday’s session, as a narcissist who’s not above fibbing to salvage his fate.
"You're tailoring your version as you're sitting there,” the prosecutor said. "You see Mr. Pistorius, it's getting more and more improbable; you're building a version that is so improbable that no one would ever believe you."
On Monday — when grilled about his intent to shoot the burglars he said he believed were lurking in the bathroom — Pistorius declared, “My defense is I heard the noise, I didn't have time to think about what I wanted to do, I fired out of fear.”