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Doctor testifies in Oscar Pistorius trial


 State witness Charl Johnson concluded giving evidence in Oscar Pistorius's murder trial in the High Court in Pretoria today.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel went through notes Johnson had made about the screams and gunshots he heard in the early morning of February 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp.

Johnson said he was convinced that they were being attacked, as the screams did not sound like fighting, but more like panic and distress - referring to a woman's screams he heard around 3am.

After Johnson was excused from the stand he took his wife Michelle Burger's hand. Pistorius looked at them as they left the court through the side entrance.

Burger was the first State witness to testify on Monday.

The couple's townhouse is about 170m from Pistorius's.

The next witness called by the State, Dr. Johan Stipp, said Pistorius told him that he thought he was shooting a burglar.

Stipp said he had heard screaming, cries for help, shots and seen a shape moving from the right to the left of the bathroom, across a vacant stand from him.

He did not know it was Pistorius's house when he went in to see if he could help, and introduced himself as a doctor.

After he arrived, Stipp saw a woman on the floor, a man next to her with one hand on the ground, two fingers over her mouth and then the man, who turned out to be Pistorius, made the statement that he thought it was a burglar.