Security guard starts testimony in Pistorius murder trial
A security guard who says he spoke with Oscar Pistorius soon after the fatal shooting of Reeva Steenkamp was continuing to give evidence at the double-amputee athlete’s murder trial today.
Pieter Baba recalled a conversation with Pistorius in the early hours of Valentine’s Day last year.
He told the High Court in Pretoria that Pistorius told him on the phone that “everything is fine”. He said Pistorius called him back moments later, did not speak and was crying, and the second call then ended.
Mr Baba said he was responding to neighbours’ reports of gunshots coming from Pistorius’s home after 3am last February 14. He drove with a fellow guard to Pistorius’s villa and made the call from outside the house.
Pistorius’s defence lawyer, Barry Roux, questioned Mr Baba’s recollection of the call.
