1. We have the statement of a person who said that after he heard gunshots he went to his balcony and saw the light was on. Then he heard a female screaming two-three times, then more gunshots.
2. Pistorius and Steenkamp had fought non-stop on the night of her killing.
3. An unnamed witness "heard talking that sounded like non-stop fighting from two to three in the morning" shortly before Steenkamp was found dead
4. Reeva was shot three times through the bathroom door, with wounds to her head, elbow and hip. The shots were not fired straight at the toilet door, but rather "directly to the toilet, the basin itself"
5. If you walk in directly and fire straight at the door you will miss the toilet.
6. OP faces an additional charge of possessing unlicensed .38 special calibre ammunition.
7. Oscar Pistorius’ disability does not make him any different from anyone else accused of a crime, prosecutor Gerrie Nel said.
8. Oscar Pistorius should have taken the court into his confidence by testifying at his bail hearing, prosecutor Gerrie Nel said
9. Nel returned to the evidence of the location of the gun and mobile phone, casting doubt on Pistorius's version of events.
10. Nel said that the presence of three bullet casings in the bathroom meant that Pistorius must have been in there when the shots were fired. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel: Premeditation. "Deliberate aiming of shots at toilet from about 1.5 metres."
11. Nel said that Steenkamp was shot through her shorts, meaning that she was probably not going to toilet when the bullet was fired.
12. Steenkamp would have said something when Pistorius shouted that there was an intruder.
13. Nel suggested that the couple would have seen each other when he returned from the balcony to get a fan and she went to the bathroom.
14. Nel said that Pistorius planned to kill his girlfriend on the night after Steenkamp locked herself in the toilet room after a fight with Pistorius, or on seeing his gun.
15. We cannot rule out that there was some planning involved in the killing, which may be considered as a premeditated murder. Gerrie Nel told the court that Pistorius armed himself, put on his prosthesis, walked 7m and fired three shots at Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door, saying this showed premeditation on the star athlete's part. Mr Nel said the killing was premeditated because Pistorius had planned to say he thought he was shooting an intruder. "It was all part of the pre-planning. Why would a burglar lock himself inside the bathroom?" Mr Nel asked. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel charged OP with premeditated murder, alleging he took the time to put on his legs and walk some seven metres from the bed to the bathroom door before opening fire. A conviction of premeditated murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in jail.
16. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel: On his own version, OscarPistorius is bound to be convicted at least of murder with indirect intent.
17. Nel said the accused athlete should take the stand to testify personally. He says every angle of the athlete's story is "improbable". "It's always easy to give a version, especially if there's only one person there," he said.
18. The degree of violence in the death of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was "horrific", prosecutor Gerrie Nel says.
19. Why did Pistorius carry Ms Steenkamp's body down a staircase after she was shot?
20. Why didn't Pistorius look for his girlfriend if he suspected there was a burglar in the house?
21. Why did Ms Steenkamp lock herself in the toilet - was she afraid of being shot or killed?
22. Why did he put on his prosthetic limbs and walk seven metres to the bathroom?
23. Mr Nel said: "If I arm myself, walk a distance and murder a person, that is premeditated. The door is closed. There is no doubt. I walk seven metres and I kill. The motive is 'I want to kill'. That's it."
A comment made: Gerrie Nel and Andrea Johnson on the Pistorius case. Brilliant prosecuting team!
