Witness gets call from overseas after number is read out in court

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

A key state witness in the Oscar Pistorius trial testified this morning that he received a large number of calls after his telephone number was read out in court on Tuesday.

Charl Johnson, the husband of another state witness Michelle Burger, was testifying on Day Three of the Pistorius murder trial in the Pretoria High Court.

He told the court that he was sitting in a witness room waiting to be called to testify when his phone rang incessantly.

Responding to a question from state prosecutor, Gerrie Neil, Johnson recounted one of the calls that he received.

IT designer Charl Johnson said he got a voice message from someone asking him why he lied in court, as he should know that
Pistorius did not kill his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Johnson, being questioned by prosecutor Gerrie Nel, had to switch his phone off after he was hit by calls after Tuesday's proceedings. When he turned it on again later he had a flood of
messages waiting for him. One of these was from an "overseas person".