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Cell phone messages allegedly sent by Oscar Pistorius to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dominated court proceedings in the last session of the fourteenth day of the Paralympian's murder trial.

Several WhatsApp chat messages from Steenkamp's phone were read out in court by police cell phone analyst Captain Francois Moller.

While Moller said that 90% of the communication between Steenkamp and Pistorius was of "a loving nature", he had made a selection of messages that he believed were relevant to the state's case. He said there was a total of 1709 messages between the couple on Steenkamp's phone.

The first of those selected by Moller was from Pistorius telling Steenkamp not to tell anyone about a gunshot going off Tasha's restaurant in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg. The message added that Darren Fresco, also a state witness, had taken the blame for the incident.

In further messages, Steenkamp complained about Pistorius's jealousy and told him: "I say everything to make you happy. ... I am scared of you sometimes when you snap at me." She said to him that she just wanted "to love and be loved".

In a long reply, Pistorius attempted to apologise. In a further message, Steenkamp complained of Pistorius's behaviour towards her at a function and told him: "I can't be attacked by outsiders for dating you and be attacked by you, the one person I deserve protection from."

The messages read out did not include any from the night she died.

Moller analysed two iPhones belonging to Pistorius and it is expected that he will deal with the data from these when his testimony continues tomorrow morning.

'I'm scared of you sometimes': Reeva to Oscar

A cellphone analyst testified that Reeva Steenkamp told Oscar Pistorius she was scared of him sometimes, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Monday.

"I'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me and of how you will react to me. You make me happy ninety percent of the time and I think we are amazing together... but I am not some other bitch... trying to kill your vibe...

"I'm the girl who fell in love with you but I'm also the girl who gets side-stepped when you are in a shit mood... I get snapped at and told my accent and voices are annoying," wrote Steenkamp in a cellphone message.

The message began: "You have picked on me excessively... I do everything to make you happy and you do everything to throw tantrums... "

The messages were read by cellphone analyst Captain Francois Moller during questioning by prosecutor Gerrie Nel.

He was reading a WhatsApp message Steenkamp sent to Pistorius on January 27, 2013. He killed her on February 14 that year.

In a message Steenkamp said he criticised her for her chewing gum, the accents she spoke in, and when she touched his neck, he snapped at her.

On February 8 she said: "I can't be attacked by outsiders for dating you, and attacked by you."

In a message on January 19, 2013, Pistorius wrote to Steenkamp: "I know it was... when you got back from Tropica, you made it sound like you only smoked weed once."

'Angel, please don't say a thing': Oscar to Reeva

Murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius sent a message to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp asking her "not to say a thing", the High Court in Pretoria heard on Monday.

"Angel, please don't say a thing to anyone, Darren told everyone it was his fault. The guys promised they wouldn't say anything," Captain Francois Moller read from a WhatsApp message Pistorius sent to Steenkamp on January 11, 2013 at 3.03pm South African time.

Moller extracted data from both Steenkamp's and Pistorius's iPhones found in the athlete's home on February 14 that year. Pistorius is on trial for the premeditated murder of Steenkamp that day.

Pistorius is also charged with firing a gun in a public place, at Tasha's restaurant in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, in January 2013.

He allegedly asked his friend Darren Fresco to take the blame for the shot that went off.

Pistorius and Steenkamp exchanged a few messages, before she replied: "I won't always think before I say something, just appreciate that I'm not a liar."

As Moller read other, longer messages between the couple that revealed conflict between the couple, Pistorius bowed his head and cried quietly.

Pistorius has been charged with murder and contraventions of the Firearms Control Act. He allegedly fired the shot at Tashas, and on September 30, 2012 he allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car with his 9mm pistol while driving with friends in Modderfontein.

Light on in Pistorius's toilet says witness

Kenny Oldwadge, for the paralympian, put it to State witness Annette Stipp in the High Court in Pretoria during Pistorius's murder trial, that a light in his toilet was not working.

Oscar Pistorius's defence on Monday questioned why a witness's version of events differed from that of her husband's and the athlete's.

Kenny Oldwadge, for the paralympian, put it to State witness Annette Stipp in the High Court in Pretoria during Pistorius's murder trial, that a light in his toilet was not working.

"What would you say if I put it to you that that light was not operating at the time?"

"No, I cannot accept that," Stipp replied.

Stipp, whose house is near Pistorius's in the Silver Woods estate, Pretoria, has testified to hearing gunshots and a woman screaming from the athlete's house around 3am on February 14 last year.

He is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius contends he shot her through the locked door of his toilet, thinking she was an intruder.

Stipp testified that from her bedroom balcony she could see light on in Pistorius's toilet.

"Your husband also testified that the light was not on," Oldwadge said.

"On my recollection light was on in that window that night," Stipp replied.

Did witness hear shots or thuds?

Oscar Pistorius's lawyer questioned a witness's recollection of the sounds she said she heard from the paralympian's house, during his murder trial in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday.

Kenny Oldwage was interrogating Annette Stipp, whose townhouse is near Pistorius's in the Silver Woods estate, Pretoria, over the affidavit she had submitted to court.

She said in her statement, written in Afrikaans, she heard two sets of sounds from Pistorius's house around 3am on February 14 last year, when he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

She heard "slae" (blows) followed by "drie plofgeluide" (three thudding sounds).

"Slae and plofgeluide, are you saying it's the same thing?" Oldwage asked her.

"As a lay witness... there were two sets of sounds. I did not look so much at the descriptive words of the sounds," Stipp replied.

She said the first set of sounds were like gunshots.

Pistorius contends he shot Steenkamp through the locked door of his toilet, thinking she was an intruder.

Stipp testified that from her bedroom balcony she and her husband could see across an open plot to Pistorius's bathroom and toilet windows.

Barking dogs, memory recall tested

Barking dogs became the subject of an objection in Oscar Pistorius's murder trial on Monday as a witness was tested on her memory of events on the morning Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead.

Annette Stipp was being cross-examined by the accused's lawyer Kenny Oldwadge in the High Court in Pretoria.

She conceded that she had signed a statement saying she saw a man walking past a window in the direction of Pistorius's house the night he shot his girlfriend dead.

She said she changed her version of events after thinking about the events of February 14 2013 very carefully and decided that she had not seen this after all.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel leapt up to defend his State's witness, saying Oldwadge had not asked his question properly.

Oldwadge said she had testified earlier to not remembering if she heard dogs barking at the time.

Nel said there was a difference between not being able to remember something, and saying one did not remember hearing something.

"I fail to appreciate how there can be a difference between memory and 'I cannot remember'," said Oldwadge.

Stipp testified earlier that she might have turned off the barking as white noise but she did hear a woman screaming, a man screaming and six shots fired from the direction of Pistorius's home.

"This is not the first time that it appears that her memory has failed," said Oldwadge referring to the testimony.

Nel countered there was a difference between memory failure and not hearing dogs barking.

At this point Judge Thokozile Masipa leaned forward and asked: "Are we talking about dogs barking?"

As the court giggled, she said: "Mr Nel is quite correct, if that is the defence, that dogs barked, then you have to say it."

Oldwadge added: "It was a feature of her evidence that she heard dogs barking.

"My Lady, I'll move on."

Oldwage looks for lost time

Oscar Pistorius's lawyer Kenny Oldwage questioned what happened to the time a witness spent while Reeva Steenkamp was being killed, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Monday.

"Where do we find the time that we've lost?" Oldwage asked Annette Stipp.

Stipp testified to hearing gunshots and a woman screaming between 3.02am and 3.17am on February 14 last year, from a nearby house in the Silver Woods Estate, Pretoria.

She was testifying in Pistorius's trial. He is accused of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp in his townhouse on February 14 last year. Pistorius contends he shot her through the locked door of his toilet, thinking she was an intruder.

After hearing what sounded like gunshots, Stipp got out of bed and went onto a small balcony of her bedroom, which looked out over an open plot at Pistorius's bathroom windows.

She and her husband Johan then went onto the larger balcony of their bedroom to try and see what was happening.

Oldwage asked her how much time elapsed between their moving from the small to the large balcony.

"I can't say exactly how much time we spent at each step of the process," she replied.

He asked her how much time they were on the larger balcony for.

"I'm not quite sure, but it could have been at least 10 minutes... that's an assumption," she replied.

At one point she interrupted Oldwage to add something to a statement.

"One moment, I don't interrupt you and I expect the same courtesy,"

Oldwage said.

"You were at odds with me when I mentioned you were on the small balcony three to four minutes... I remind you of your evidence earlier when you said you didn't have a watch. So you're not in a position to tell us. Somewhere time was wasted."

Stipp replied: "I maintain that I walked from the small balcony to the larger balcony without spending time in the bedroom."

Stipp is married to radiologist Johan Stipp, who testified in the first week of the trial.

Oldwage cross-examines Oscar witness

Oscar Pistorius's lawyer questioned whether a woman who heard screaming from the paralympic athlete's house when Reeva Steenkamp was killed had heard other versions of what happened.

"You must have heard certain versions of what was alleged to have taken place?" Kenny Oldwage, for Pistorius, asked Annette Stipp.

He asked her whether she had compared her version of the early morning hours of February 14, with others she may have heard in the media.

"I did not compare versions with my version so I can't say I agree or disagree with those versions," Stipp replied.

She said she had not followed media coverage of the case religiously.

"I have not been sitting in front of the TV watching it."

She was testifying in Pistorius's trial.

He is accused of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp in his Silver Woods Estate, Pretoria, townhouse on February 14 last year. Pistorius contends he shot her through the locked door of his toilet, thinking she was an intruder.

Stipp's house is near Pistorius's in the same townhouse complex.

Stipp, an occupational therapist, earlier told the court she was unable to sleep that morning as she was feeling "flu-ish".

Oldwage questioned her about her "level of alertness" that morning, shortly before she heard gunshots while lying in bed, compared to a few minutes later. She said it was the same throughout.

Stipp is married to radiologist Johan Stipp, who testified in the first week of the trial.

Screams heard from Oscar's house - Sapa

The screams of a woman and a man were heard from the direction of murder-accused Oscar Pistorius's house the morning he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Monday.

"I heard a lady screaming... terrified, terrified screaming," occupational therapist Annette Stipp testified.

She said she had woken up around 3.02am on February 14 2013, feeling ill and coughing.

While she was lying in bed trying to decide whether she should have water for her throat she heard "something that sounded like three gunshots".

Her husband woke up. They went to a balcony and saw lights on at a house across the way at the Silver Woods estate.

It sounded like a family murder to them from the woman's screaming and they were worried there might be children in the house.

Her husband Johan, who had testified earlier, told her there was a man moving to the left hand side of the house, said Stipp.

They tried to phone the flying squad but the number was not working.

By that time their bedside clock radio, which was usually about three to four minutes fast, said 3.17am.

They heard more shots and had been trying a cell number for emergencies.

They called security and when guards came they said security must go to the house where the shots were coming from.

"I could hear the screaming. I also heard a man screaming," said Stipp.

Stipp does not want video or stills images of herself broadcast or published.

She said she could not make out words during the screaming, but it was definitely a male voice.

"After the second set of shots it just became quiet. There was no more screaming either male or female," she said.

In the early hours of February 14 last year, Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

The sprinter, nicknamed "Blade Runner", has denied intending to kill Steenkamp, contending that when he fired four shots into a locked bathroom door, he believed there was an intruder in the toilet cubicle.

The paralympic athlete has pleaded not guilty to charges of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp; as well as contraventions of the Firearms Control Act.

His defence Barry Roux SC has submitted that the screams were only of Pistorius seeking help and that Steenkamp would not have been able to scream after being shot in the head.

The firearm contraventions are linked to separate incidents in which Pistorius allegedly fired a pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013, and allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car while driving with friends in Modderfontein in September 2012.

Witness heard 'terrified screaming' - Sapa

A woman who lives near Oscar Pistorius's house heard a woman's "terrified screaming" in the early morning hours when Reeva Steenkamp was killed, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Monday.

"Moments after the shots I heard a lady screaming. Terrified, terrified screaming," Annette Stipp said to questioning from prosecutor Gerrie Nel.

She was testifying in Pistorius's trial.

He is accused of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp in his Silver Woods Estate, Pretoria, townhouse on February 14 last year. Pistorius contends he shot her through the locked door of his toilet, thinking she was an intruder.

Stipp, an occupational therapist, said she was unable to sleep as she was feeling "flu-ish". She looked at the clock radio and saw it was 3.02am and was about to get up to drink water.

"As I was getting up I heard what sounded to me like gunshots."

Stipp is married to radiologist Johan Stipp, who testified in the first week of the trial.

She said she could see lights on in the house the screams were coming from. The Stipps' bedroom balcony looks out at Pistorius's bathroom window.

Pistorius has said, in his bail application statement, that the lights were off in his house.

Pistorius has been charged with the premeditated murder of Steenkamp and contraventions of the Firearms Control Act. He allegedly fired a shot from a Glock pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013.

Pistorius trial extended - Sapa

South Africans and viewers all over the world will be glued to their screens for much longer following the extension of the Oscar Pistorius trial.

The trial, which has attracted the attention of the world, was scheduled to run from March 3 to 20 in the High Court in Pretoria but will now continue until May 16.

The trial will continue until the court goes into recess on April 4.

"The trial will resume on Monday April 14 until May 16," spokeswoman Lulama Luti said.

However, she could not say when judgment was expected in the case.

In the early hours of February 14 last year, Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

The sprinter, nicknamed "Blade Runner", has denied intending to kill Steenkamp, contending that when he fired four shots into a locked bathroom door, he believed there was an intruder in the toilet cubicle.

The paralympic athlete has pleaded not guilty to charges of the premeditated murder of Steenkamp; as well as contraventions of the Firearms Control Act.

The firearm contraventions are linked to separate incidents in which Pistorius allegedly fired a pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013, and allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car while driving with friends in Modderfontein in September 2012.

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