• A witness has told the trial of Oscar Pistorius that she heard “bloodcurdling screams” on the night the Paralympian shot his girlfriend dead.

• The witness, Michelle Burger, told the court she heard two people - a man and a woman - shouting, adding: “The fear in that woman’s voice; you only fear like that if your life is threatened.”

• Burger said she heard four gunshots on the night in question.



• Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to the murder and to firearms charges, telling the court he denies the allegations of murder “in the strongest terms” and believed an intruder had broken into his house and was in his bathroom when he fired.



• Pistorius says he approached the bathroom with a gun in an effort to protect Steenkamp and has accused the prosecution of once again using “unsubstantiated allegations” to argue that he murdered Steenkamp.

• The Paralympian has also accused the prosecution of trying to use inadmissible evidence for the “assassination of my character” and said that suggestions he deliberately killed Steenkamp “could not be further from the truth”.