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bathroom is now the focus of a murder inquiry.
As a bail hearing continued Wednesday in the shocking murder case, police testified that they discovered testosterone and needles inside the athlete's home.
Defense lawyers countered that Oscar Pistorius took no banned performance-enhancing drugs, describing the substances found as purely herbal.
According to the International Paralympic Committee, the star tested drug-free as recently as last September. Still, the "roid rage" questions linger.
Pistorius, 26, has claimed the fatal shooting was a case of mistaken identity, and that he
thought he was firing on an intruder locked in his bathroom.
Pistorius looked distraught and sobbed with his head
lowered as the packed court heard the post-mortem showed three entrance wounds -
the bullets hit the right side of Miss Steenkamp's head, her right elbow - which
resulted in a broken arm - and her hip.
In the first
half of the morning session damning allegations surfaced that the police and
prosecution say undermine his defence, but after a recess his defence team fire
tough questions at the main witness, chief investigative officer Hilton Botha.
As the prosecution began setting out its case on
Wednesday, they claimed a witness heard gunshots, saw the lights on, heard 'a
female screaming' and then more shots.Mr
Botha - the first officer on the scene - told the packed court a separate
witness said they heard an hour-long fight between 2.am and 3.am before the
sound of gunshots rang out.
Earlier Mr
Botha said he arrived at the upscale Pretoria house at about 4.15am last
Thursday and the 29-year-old model had already been declared dead - 'she had on
white shorts and black vest. She was covered in towels.'
Pistorius,
who underwent below-the-knee amputations when he was 11 months old, said he shot
through the toilet cubicle door while on his stumps but the court heard the
bullets' trajectory was through the top of the door.
Mr Botha said he
believed the bullets were fired down, suggesting that Pistorius was wearing his
prosthetic legs when the shots were discharged.
Lawyers and
police studied plans of the bedroom and bathroom - a projector was used to beam
the plans up for the public and press to see.
Gerrie Nel, the
chief prosecutor asked Mr Botha if the shots were fired directly at the toilet
basin and he agreed.
'If you fire
straight at the door, you miss the toilet,' he explained.
Police believe a
cricket bat found in the bathroom was used to break down the door to the toilet
- part of the door was lying in the bathroom. One bullet cartridge was found
outside bathroom while three others were inside.
On the shower mat in the en-suite bathroom lay a
firearm and an iPhone 4 and iPhone - there was blood spatters on one of the
phones.
Mr Botha said four phones in
total were found in the athlete's home and none of them had been used to call
emergency services.
The court also
heard that two boxes of testosterone and needles were found in Pistorius'
bedroom. where they also found an overnight bag was on a couch on the left hand
side of the bed as well as slippers.
Mr Botha said he wanted Pistorius charged additionally
with a weapons violation after unlicensed .38 calibre ammunition was found in
the athlete's bedroom safe - though the defence later claimed the ammunition
belonged to the athlete's father Henke.
Pistorius has said he had been a victim of crime and
received death threats, but today the court heard there were no records of
this.
The athlete made notes with a silver pen as the case
progressed.
Mr Botha said there was 'no
way' he believed Pistorius's version of events.
He said he believed Pistorius, who won two gold medals
and a silver at London’s 2012 Paralympic Games, was a flight risk and he was
opposing bail.
He told the court
Pistorius has offshore accounts and a property in Italy - which was later
disputed by Pistorius' team - and said that he saw the runner's family looking
for documents and a specific memory stick with details of offshore
accounts.
Discussing extradition he
said: 'We don't want another Dewani to happen. We're still waiting to get him
back in the country.'
He was referring to Shrien Dewani who is wanted in
South Africa over the honeymoon murder of his wife in November 2010, but is now
fighting extradition in Britain.
Today details
were released of a row he allegedly had with a man over a girl at Kyalami
racetrack where Pistorius allegedly threatened to "f*** up" the
rival.
It was also claimed he was
involved in another shooting at a restaurant in Johannesburg in January and
asked the gun owner to take responsibility for the incident.
The defence will have to prove the extenuating
circumstances that would justify granting bail so Pistorius will be free until
the trial starts.
It is not expected to begin for at least four months -
it would be heard by a judge sitting alongside two assessors – typically
magistrates or retired magistrates - as the South Africa legal system does not
have a jury system. (Daily Mail UK)
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