Court adjourns as emotional Oscar breaks down on stand

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

Moments after distraught paralympian Oscar Pistorius had composed himself, his murder trial was adjourned by the High Court
in Pretoria on Tuesday.

"We'll adjourn until Wednesday morning," Judge Thokozile Masipa said seconds after the court had sat down again.

Barry Roux, for Pistorius, made the request after the athlete broke down into uncontrollable sobbing, which caused the court to adjourn.

His sister Aimee and other relatives led him out of court GD through a side entrance.

After he came back, Roux said he could not "responsibly ask the court to continue".

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel had no objection.

Pistorius had been testifying about how he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through the locked door of the toilet in his
Pretoria townhouse on February 14 last year, apparently believing she was an intruder.

Sapa