Embattled South African double-amputee Olympian, Oscar Pistorius vomited in court on Monday as he listened to harrowing expert testimony about the autopsy of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he is accused of murdering. * Pistorius
Sitting in the dock, a clearly emotional Pistorius retched and heaved as University of Pretoria pathologist Gert Saayman gave an account of the multiple bullet wounds Pistorius admits inflicting.
Pistorius, whodenies a charge of murder, says he fired four shots at Steenkamp on February 14, 2013 through a locked toilet door, believing her to be an intruder.
According to Saayman, whose testimony the media has been banned from directly reporting, told the court how Steenkamp was struck four times with bullets from Pistorius’s nine millimetre pistol.
Steenkamp was shot once on the top right of head, once in the right elbow and once in the right hip. She was also stuck in the webbing of her left hand.
The model and law graduate also sustained injuries from fragments of bullet, fragements of the door and fragments of her own bone.
As the details were read out, the court was forced to adjourn as Pistorius broke down, his shoulders visibly shaking as he vomitted right there in the court room.
“Mr Roux can you just attend to the accused, not sure what’s happening?” Judge Thokozile Masipa said addressing Pistorius’s lawyer