Pistorius weeps as witness recalls shooting scene horror

March 07, 2014 02:39

A weeping Oscar Pistorius shielded his ears as a witness in his murder trial today gave harrowing evidence about desperate attempts to save Reeva Steenkamp's life after she was shot.

Rocking back and forth in the dock, Pistorius put his hands over his ears as neighbour and radiologist Johan Stipp recounted how he entered his house to find the distraught Paralympian bent over, attempting to resuscitate his girlfriend.

Stipp noticed a wound on Steenkamp's right thigh, right upper arm, and "blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that" on top of the skull.

Amid the scene of horror, Stipp said he quickly realised the 29-year-old model would not survive the injuries.

"She had no pulse in her neck, she had no peripheral pulse, she had no breathing movements that she made. She was clenching down on Oscar's fingers as he was trying to open her airway."

"I opened her right eyelid, the pupil was fixed, dilated and the cornea was milky, in other words it was already drying out, so to me it was obvious that she was mortally wounded."

During the testimony, sobbing could be heard around the courtroom as Steenkamp's family and friends sat disconsolately arm-in-arm.

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