Pistorius said ‘it’s fine’ after shots

Oscar Pistorius has shielded his ears as he heard evidence about attempts to save Reeva Steenkamp's life.

The accused ... Oscar Pistorius, second right, arrives at the high court before the start of the fifth day of his trial. Source: AP

Day four of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial in South Africa saw testimony from one of the first people on the scene. Nathan Frandino reports.

OSCAR Pistorius told security at his estate that "everything is fine'' shortly after shots were reported from his home on the night his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was killed.

"Mr Pistorius said to me 'security, everything is fine','' security guard Pieter Baba testified about what the athlete told him on the phone.

"That's when I realised that Mr Pistorius was crying,'' he added.

Pistorius called Mr Baba back.

"He just started crying over the phone. That's when the line went off again.''

The guard, who spoke to Pistorius by cellphone after driving to his house, then described seeing the athlete coming down the stairs with Steenkamp in his arms.

"I saw Mr Pistorius coming down with Reeva. My lady I was so shocked that I couldn't even think for a few moments,'' he said.

"I got such a fright seeing Oscar carrying Reeva down, after he had told me everything was fine.''

Earlier, an ex-girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius testified that the Paralympian star sprinter often carried a gun with him and once fired at a traffic light after a confrontation with police.

An emotional Samantha Taylor, who met Pistorius in 2010 when she was 17 years old, tearfully described the sprinter as someone familiar with guns, prone to fits of anger and an unfaithful boyfriend.

Ms Taylor took to the stand on Friday, testifying that in 2010 on the way back from a day trip to a popular city getaway Pistorius was in a car that was pulled over by the police for speeding.

When a police officer inspected Pistorius's weapon, left on a seat when he exited the car, Pistorius became angry, "Oscar shouted at the policeman and said he shouldn't touch his gun,'' said Ms Taylor.

He later shot at a traffic light, "out of spite after being stopped.''

"He was angry at the police after being stopped, thereafter when they wanted to fire a shot they found it funny,'' she said, referring to Pistorius and a friend who was with him at the time.

The firing of the weapon is one of three firearms charges Pistorius faces in addition to a charge of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.

Frequently breaking down in tears, Taylor recounted the history of the pair's troubled relationship.

Taylor said they met at a rugby match and later "he added me on Facebook.''

Their relationship ended in 2011, Taylor claimed, because "he cheated on me with Reeva Steenkamp.''

Feeling the pressure ... Oscar Pistorius gestures in the dock on the fifth day of his trial. Source: AFP

Ms Taylor also dismissed the defence's assertion that witnesses heard Pistorius and not Steenkamp scream on that February 14.

"That is not true, he sounds like a man'' when he screams, she said.

Earlier Dr Johan Stipp was asked questions about how much time elapsed between the gunshots and screams that he heard on the night of the murder.

Dr Stipp was asked about the number of screams, based on two separate statements he gave.

The defence wanted to show that Dr Stipp's statements did not match the evidence he gave on the sequence of events he witnessed and heard in his bedroom.

Mr Roux implied that screams would not have carried as far as the inside of Dr Stipp's bedroom, and used sound tests conducted on February 27 to back up his point.

Earlier Judge Thokozile Masipa started proceedings by telling the public and press: "if you misbehave, you will be chucked out."

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Reeva Steenkamp, 29, a model and TV reality personality, was shot dead by the Olympic and Paralympic athlete Pistorius, fondly known as "The Blade Runner", on Valentine's Day last year.

Pistorius is pleaded not guilty to murder and says he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder.

Yesterday, Pistorius struggled to cope with the first detailed, public description of the immediate aftermath of the shooting at his home in Pretoria.

As Steenkamp lay dead or dying in his home, a weeping, praying Pistorius knelt at her side and struggled in vain to help her breathe by holding two fingers in her clenched mouth, witness radiologist Johan Schipp told the high court in Pretoria.

"'I shot her. I thought she was a burglar. I shot her,''' Dr Stipp recalled Pistorius saying in the minutes after the fatal shooting.

Tough gig ... Barry Roux, legal representative for Oscar Pistorius, speaks on the fifth day of his trial. Source: AP

"Oscar was crying all the time.

"He was praying to God: "Please let her live.'"

"It was obvious that she was mortally wounded,'' Dr Stipp said as he described what he saw at Pistorius' villa.

"At the bottom of the stairs ... there was a lady lying on her back on the floor.''

"I tried to assist her.'' Dr Stipp said. "I tried to open an airway.''

Gone too soon ... Reeva Steenkamp poses on set in Jamaica during the shooting of the reality show Tropika Island of Treasure. Source: News Limited

"She had no pulse in the neck, she had no peripheral pulse. She had no breathing movements that she made."

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Sitting on a courtroom bench, Pistorius bent forward and put his hand over his face, then moved them to cover both ears, as Dr Stipp spoke. He stayed that way for a while, even when one of his lawyers reached back and touched him on the head.

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Dr Stipp also testified that he saw a bathroom light on at Pistorius's house and a figure moving from right to left as a woman screamed.

The defence case is that all the screams came from Pistorius.

The state is seeking to convince the court that Pistorius had an argument with Steenkamp before Pistorius fired the shots that killed her.

Celebrity couple ... Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp. Source: AFP

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