Oscar Pistorius was officially charged with murder during a court hearing on Monday as the prosecution revealed it has witnesses who heard a woman screaming before gunshots on the night he allegedly killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The details of the police case surrounding the events of last Valentine’s Day were contained in a list of charges formally served on Mr Pistorius on what would have been Miss Steenkamp’s 30th birthday.
As well as the murder charge he faces for shooting the law graduate and FHM model, he will also be prosecuted for possession of 38 unlicensed bullets discovered when police searched his Pretoria home after the fatal shooting. Before the case began, a tearful Mr Pistorius stood in the dock clutching the hands of his brother Carl and sister Aimee, their heads bowed and lips moving in silent prayer.
His trial is set for March 2014.
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