'I'm Scared Of You Sometimes And How You Snap At Me' -Phone Messages Between Oscar Pistorius And Reeva Revealed To Court

Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, admitted to being scared of the South African track star in a text message sent less than three weeks before he shot her dead, a police expert told his murder trial today.

From Daily Mail:
Pistorius was in tears as the messages were read aloud in the Pretoria court - one of them from the model to the athlete read: 'I'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me,' while a later text read 'I can’t be attacked by outsider for dating u and be attacked by you the person I deserve protection from.'

The couple argued about what she alleged was the athlete's short temper and jealousy, police Capt. Francois Moller testified, citing text messages he extracted from cell phones.

Moller says that about 90 percent of the messages he downloaded were what he called normal and 'loving' exchanges.

But there were exceptions that he printed out for the court in Pistorius' murder trial.
The Olympic and Paralympic athlete is on trial for the murder of 29-year-old model and law graduate Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.
He has pleaded not guilty to murder, saying he was deeply in love with Steenkamp, whom he had been dating for a few months, and that he mistook for an intruder hiding in a toilet at his luxury Pretoria home.

A message sent by Steenkamp read: 'We are living in a double standard relationship. Every five seconds I hear about how you dated another chick. You really have dated a lot of people yet you get upset if I mention one funny story with a long term boyfriend.'

Pistorius calls his girlfriend 'Angel' and she called him 'Baba.'
In one message exchange the pair appear to be arguing over an incident at a friend's engagement party.
Steenkamp wrote: 'I regard myself as a lady and I didn't feel like one tonight after the way u treated me when we left.  I am trying my best to make u happy and I feel as tho u sometimes never are no matter the effort I put in. I can’t be attacked by outsider for dating u and be attacked by you the person I deserve protection from.'

Pistorius wrote in a message: 'I want to talk to you. I want to sort this out. I don’t want to have anything less than amazing for you and I’m sorry for the things I saw without thinking and for taking offense to some of your actions.’

He said that his illness and sickness was not ‘an excuse.’
‘I was upset you that you just left me after we got food to go talk to a guy and I was standing right behind you watching you touch his arm and ignore me and when I spoke up you introduced me which you could’ve done but when I left you just kept on chatting to him when clearly I was upset.'
In another message, Pistorius told Steenkamp that his friends will take the blame for a shooting incident that occurred a month before Steenkamp was killed.

Earlier today a neighbour of Pistorius testified that she heard gunshots, screaming and then a second set of gun shots on the night that the runner fatally shot Steenkamp.
Anette Stipp's testimony matched some of the evidence given by other witnesses earlier in the trial who said they also heard a woman screaming around the time that Pistorius killed Steenkamp before dawn on February 14, 2013.

The defence has countered that the neighbors were actually hearing Pistorius screaming in a high-pitched voice after he shot Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model.
Pistorius has said he shot his girlfriend by mistake through a locked toilet door, thinking that she was an intruder in his home.

Stipp, the neighbor, said under questioning from Nel that she heard gunshots while lying awake around 3 a.m. on the night of the shooting, and then heard the 'terrified, terrified' screams of a woman.
Her bedroom is situated across a grassy area about 70 metres (230 feet) from Pistorius' home, and the windows of the athlete's bathroom are visible from her window.
'The screaming at that stage just continued,' said Stipp, who recalled looking out from a balcony at two houses with lights on in the gated estate where her family and Pistorius lived.

She said she told her husband Johan, who previously testified, that the screaming sounded as though a 'family murder' had taken place.
'There was definitely a female screaming for quite a period,' Anette Stipp said. 'You could definitely hear two different voices.'
She said she then heard a second set of shots, and the screaming stopped.
The defence has said that Pistorius fired into the door and then battered the door with a cricket bat to get to Steenkamp after realising she was inside the toilet cubicle.

It insists that some neighbors who testified mistook the sound of the cricket bat striking the door for gunshots.
Pistorius' camp also maintains that Pistorius fired with quick bursts that gave Steenkamp no time to scream, and so Pistorius did not realize he was shooting at Steenkamp.
A South African police ballistics expert, however, has testified that the first of three bullets that struck Steenkamp hit her in the right hip, giving her time to scream before she was hit in the arm and head.
Defence lawyer Kenneth Oldwadge pressed neighbor Anette Stipp on her recollections, questioning whether she was inside her house or on a balcony while hearing what she said were shots and screams, and whether she was alert because she had said she was slightly ill at the time.
He said she was wrong to say the light was in Pistorius' bathroom around the time of the shooting.
Stipp also testified about an incident this year in which she again heard screams in the estate at night.

The testimony appeared to refer to what Pistorius' defense lawyers have referred to as noise tests that they conducted to determine how sound carries and to prove their contention that the runner screams in a high voice when extremely anxious.
The sounds included a male voice screaming in both high and low pitches, Stipp said.
The screaming this year, she said, had 'very little emotion,' in contrast to the screaming she heard on the night of Steenkamp's death.

Nel, the prosecutor, has said he will wrap up his case against Pistorius this week after calling four or five more witnesses to support his contention that the Olympian intentionally killed Steenkamp after an argument.
The defence will then present its case.
Judicial officials say the trial will continue until May 16, with a recess in April.