Text messages show Oscar’s anger at perceived flirting.
OSCAR Pistorius “made a scene” when he thought girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was flirting with another man at a party.
On another occasion, he loudly criticised her for a perceived snub at a function.
This image of a jealous boyfriend, and an at times unhappy relationship, emerged in the high court in Pretoria yesterday when Captain Francois Moller read out cellphone messages between Pistorius and Steenkamp.
Moller, who is attached to the police’s specialised hi-tech unit, said he downloaded information from two iPhones and two BlackBerry smartphones confiscated from the crime scene.
The BlackBerries, which hadn’t been used in months, had been replaced by the iPhones – one belonging to Pistorius and one to Steenkamp – with the same telephone numbers being retained through SIM card swops, he said.
Moller told the court he had downloaded 2 731 WhatsApp and Instant Messaging messages from Steenkamp’s iPhone.
He compiled a report for the court based on messages he believed relevant to the case.
Pistorius, 27, shot his girlfriend Steenkamp, 29, through a toilet door in his home in the Silver Woods Estate in Pretoria on Valentine’s Day last year.
He claims he mistook her for an intruder. She died on the scene due to multiple gunshot wounds. On January 27 last year, less than a month before the fatal shooting, Steenkamp wrote a long message to Pistorius after they attended an engagement party together.
“I was not flirting with anyone today and I feel sick that u suggested that and made a scene at the table and made us leave early,” she wrote. “I do everything to make u happy and to not say anything to rock the boat with u. You do everything to throw tantrums in front of people.”
“I am scared of u sometimes and how u snap at me and how u react to me.”
Pistorius responded a short while later: “I’m sorry for the things I say without thinking and for taking offence to some of your actions. I was upset that you just left me … to go talk to a guy and I was standing right behind you watching you touch his arm and ignore me … .”
Shortly after midnight on February 8, Steenkamp sent Pistorius a message complaining about how he treated her at a function. “I … thought I would be helping u by getting to the exit before you because I can’t rush in the heels I was wearing … I didn’t think u would criticise me for doing that especially not so loudly so that others could hear,” she wrote. “I am trying to make u happy and I feel as tho u sometimes never are no matter the effort I put in. I can’t be attacked by outsiders for dating u AND be attacked by u, the one person I deserve protection from.”
Earlier in the day, Anette Stipp, the wife of earlier state witness Dr Johan Stipp, testified to hearing gunshots and screaming on the morning of February 14 last year. She told the court she had awoken around 3am that morning because she had flu. She said she heard “three loud bangs that sounded like gunshots”.
This, she said, was followed by a woman’s “terrified” screaming.
The screaming continued, with a man’s voice also screaming at some point, shortly before they heard three more gunshots, she said. The defence has, however, denied these were gunshots.
The case continues today.
Reeva made Oscar jealous
OSCAR Pistorius “made a scene” when he thought girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was flirting with another man at a party.
On another occasion, he loudly criticised her for a perceived snub at a function.
This image of a jealous boyfriend, and an at times unhappy relationship, emerged in the high court in Pretoria yesterday when Captain Francois Moller read out cellphone messages between Pistorius and Steenkamp.
Moller, who is attached to the police’s specialised hi-tech unit, said he downloaded information from two iPhones and two BlackBerry smartphones confiscated from the crime scene.
The BlackBerries, which hadn’t been used in months, had been replaced by the iPhones – one belonging to Pistorius and one to Steenkamp – with the same telephone numbers being retained through SIM card swops, he said.
Moller told the court he had downloaded 2 731 WhatsApp and Instant Messaging messages from Steenkamp’s iPhone.
He compiled a report for the court based on messages he believed relevant to the case.
Pistorius, 27, shot his girlfriend Steenkamp, 29, through a toilet door in his home in the Silver Woods Estate in Pretoria on Valentine’s Day last year.
He claims he mistook her for an intruder. She died on the scene due to multiple gunshot wounds. On January 27 last year, less than a month before the fatal shooting, Steenkamp wrote a long message to Pistorius after they attended an engagement party together.
“I was not flirting with anyone today and I feel sick that u suggested that and made a scene at the table and made us leave early,” she wrote. “I do everything to make u happy and to not say anything to rock the boat with u. You do everything to throw tantrums in front of people.”
“I am scared of u sometimes and how u snap at me and how u react to me.”
Pistorius responded a short while later: “I’m sorry for the things I say without thinking and for taking offence to some of your actions. I was upset that you just left me … to go talk to a guy and I was standing right behind you watching you touch his arm and ignore me … .”
Shortly after midnight on February 8, Steenkamp sent Pistorius a message complaining about how he treated her at a function. “I … thought I would be helping u by getting to the exit before you because I can’t rush in the heels I was wearing … I didn’t think u would criticise me for doing that especially not so loudly so that others could hear,” she wrote. “I am trying to make u happy and I feel as tho u sometimes never are no matter the effort I put in. I can’t be attacked by outsiders for dating u AND be attacked by u, the one person I deserve protection from.”
Earlier in the day, Anette Stipp, the wife of earlier state witness Dr Johan Stipp, testified to hearing gunshots and screaming on the morning of February 14 last year. She told the court she had awoken around 3am that morning because she had flu. She said she heard “three loud bangs that sounded like gunshots”.
This, she said, was followed by a woman’s “terrified” screaming.
The screaming continued, with a man’s voice also screaming at some point, shortly before they heard three more gunshots, she said. The defence has, however, denied these were gunshots.
The case continues today.
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