Oscar Pistorius Hearing: Nothing to Resume in a Cross-Examination

The cross-examination section of the South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is due to resume for the fifth day of his hearing at the Pretoria. The examiner has been challenging his story of incidents on the night when he shot dead to Reeva Steenkamp his girlfriend in February last year.

Oscar Pistorius,the double-amputee runner disagree with the murder and persisting that he mistook Ms Steenkamp for an intruder. Moreover, he faces 25 years of his life in prison if find guilty of planned murder.

On Monday, prosecutor Gerrie Nel recommended that the athlete was acting out emotional eruption to cover his difficulty in answering a barrage of probing questions. The Judge Thokozile Masipa momentarily stopped the trial on two events on Monday after Mr Pistorius broke down sobbing.

 At the moment before, the case postponed for the day, Mr Nel said that you are getting very emotional and now you're getting irritated because your story of events is doubtful. Mr Pistorius said that he had not been in the normal frame of mind at the time of the shooting. Earlier, another time Mr Nel hard-pressed Mr Pistorius on the moment he shot Ms Steenkamp.

The athlete claimed that he had not planned to kill anyone and says I fired out of fear then Mr Nel said that Mr Pistorius was altering his story from the self-defense to saying he shot by accident.

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