Pistorius Refuses To Look At Photo Of Dead Lover

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
10 April 2014
Tags:
South Africa

A shaken Oscar Pistorius refused to look at a gruesome photo of his slain girlfriend's bloodied head on Wednesday, telling a prosecutor through tears, "I don't have to look at a picture. I was there." Gerrie Nel insisted he look at it during a fierce first day of cross-examination in which he doggedly pressed the double-amputee Olympian to "take responsibility" for killing Reeva Steenkamp.

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