OSCAR PISTORIUS MURDER TRIAL
Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes.’ The trial was late in starting. More than a half-hour after the trial was to start, the judge had yet to arrive. Ms Steenkamp was shot three times through a locked bathroom door at Pistorius's home in Pretoria on Valentine's Day 2013. The former golden boy of South African athletics, who was arrested shortly afterwards, maintains his innocence and says he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder.……
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