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Students skate in Student Union
No joke! Students skated on an ice-less rink in the Student Union.
Students ice skate in the Student Union on April 1. The skating was done on plastic set out to form a rink. (Steven Hoskins/The Lamp)
By Steven Hoskins, Staff Writer
SPRINGFIELD — On April 1, if a student went down to the Student Union, they would have been in for quite the sight: a large 21-by-42 foot skating rink-like rectangular area.
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A second neighbour who said he heard screaming on the night Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead is to continue giving evidence in the athlete's murder trial. Charl Peter Johnson's version of events followed that of his wife, Michelle Burger, who told the court she had heard "blood-curdling screams" on the opening day of the highly-anticipated case. During an emotional second day, Ms Burger - the prosecution's key witness - wept under cross-examination and Pistorius was seen wiping his eyes with a handkerchief. Two more neighbours of the Paralympic star are due to give evidence in South Africa's administrative capital Pretoria on Wednesday, as well as former girlfriends of the double amputee. Source: Sky News
For those of us who have travelled nearly 6,000 miles to be here, the trial of Oscar Pistorius has not disappointed. There were tears from Mr Pistorius, the defendant who had appeared so calm and measured in the dock on Monday. The key prosecution witness, his neighbour Michelle Burger, wept too, after two days of tough cross-examination by the defence. She revealed that sometimes when she is in her shower she relives the "terrifying screams" she heard coming from the Pistorius home the night he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Source: Sky News
Oscar Pistorius' defence team has said claims by a neighbour that she heard Reeva Steenkamp scream after she had been shot multiple times will be thrown into doubt by expert evidence. Sky's Alex Crawford, who was in court, said: "We saw for the first time a crack in the athlete's demeanour. Neighbour Michelle Burger, who says she heard Ms Steenkamp being killed by Pistorius, was grilled by the athlete's defence team on the second day of the trial. But Pistorius' lawyer Barry Roux said: "We will debate the sequence of the bullets. Source: Sky News
Oscar Pistorius' defence team says claims by a neighbour that she heard a woman's screams after Reeva Steenkamp was shot will be thrown into doubt by expert evidence. Neighbour Michelle Burger, who says she heard Ms Steenkamp being killed by Pistorius, is being grilled by the athlete's defence team for a second day. She told the packed courtroom in South Africa's administrative capital Pretoria she heard a woman screaming as shots were being fired in Pistorius' residence. But Pistorius' lawyer Barry Roux said: "We will debate the sequence of the bullets. Source: Sky News
The judge in the murder trial of South African track star Oscar Pistorius sharply warned the media to behave on Tuesday after a local television station leaked a photo of the state's first witness who had asked that her image not be broadcast. Judge Thokozile Masipa ordered an investigation into the leak after broadcaster eNCA showed a photo of Pistorius' neighbour Michelle Burger during the audio broadcast of her second day of testimony. Olympic and Paralympic star Pistorius is on trial for murdering his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, at his suburban Pretoria home on Valentine's Day last year. The trial, which could see one of global sports' most admired figures jailed for life, has drawn comparisons with the high-profile murder trial of American football star and actor O.J. Simpson two decades ago. Source: Reuters
The Times Jerome Starkey and Ruth Maclean, Pretoria
At the end of day one in Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial it looked like 1-0 to the prosecution.
Their first witness was a university lecturer with a compelling account of “bloodcurdling screams”, who refused to be cowed by the runner’s defence barrister, Barry Roux.
“Are you comfortable with Miss, or Ms? How should we address you?” he asked.
“My title’s doctor,” Michelle Burger said. “Madame is fine.”
It was the beginning of a sparring match in which one of South Africa’s most expensive lawyers looked increasingly like a bully who was being wrong-footed.
When Mr Roux challenged her on her memory, suggesting that she had forgotten one of his questions, she darted back: “I was focusing on the fear.”
When he questioned how she had fallen asleep, after hearing screams of terror, she revealed that her sister’s baby had died on Friday. “I slept,” she said, with a hint of anger in her voice. “I do sleep after traumatic events.”
She raised a laugh when Mr Roux questioned her knowledge of what gunshots sound like by asking when she last heard one.
“Fourteenth of February 2013,” Ms Burger said, giving the date on which Reeva Steenkamp was killed. (Read more...)
