Pistorius allegedly made 'sinister' remark in court

Oscar Pistorius is seated in a courtroom at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. A man who lives next to the house where Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend has testified at the athlete's murder trial about the night of the killing, saying he heard a man crying loudly and that he called the security of the housing estate for help.

Oscar Pistorius, right, talks with his defense attorney Barry Roux, left, in a courtroom at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. A man who lives next to the house where Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend has testified at the athlete's murder trial about the night of the killing, saying he heard a man crying loudly and that he called the security of the housing estate for help.

Oscar Pistorius looks back as he arrives at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Using witness accounts of a panicked nighttime phone call from Pistorius begging for help and his desperate pleas for Reeva Steenkamp to stay alive, the defense at his murder trial tried to reinforce its case Monday that the double-amputee Olympian fatally shot his girlfriend in a tragic error of judgment.

Oscar Pistorius gets a hug from his aunt Lois Pistroius in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, April 7, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day 2013.

Oscar Pistorius is comforted by a relative in court, on March 5, 2014. The double amputee and Paralympian is appearing in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius is accused of the murder of model Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013.

The Gauteng ANC Women's League held a march on February 14, 2014 to the Pretoria Magistrates Court to commemorate South African model Reeva Steenkamp who was shot on this day a year ago by her boyfriend, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius said on February 14 he was consumed with 'sorrow' as he marked one year since he shot dead his girlfriend on Valentine's Day in what he maintains was an accident. In a case that grabbed international headlines, the world-famous double amputee, 27, shot Reeva Steenkamp through his toilet door, claiming he mistook her for an intruder at his upmarket Pretoria home.

By Christopher Torchia and Gerlad Imray

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -
Oscar Pistorius was accused of making a "sinister" comment to a friend of Reeva Steenkamp in the courtroom Tuesday after his murder trial was adjourned for the day. Pistorius denied the allegation.
A lawyer for Kim Myers, who was close to Steenkamp, said Pistorius approached Myers in the Pretoria courtroom and said to her "how can you sleep at night?"

Lawyer Ian Levitt told The Associated Press that Myers said Pistorius made the remark in a "very sinister way."

Steenkamp, whom Pistorius shot and killed last year, lived with the Myers family and they say they were her second family.

"My client views this unwelcome approach as extremely disturbing and I have been in communication with the national prosecuting authorities," Levitt said in a later statement.

He told the AP that Myers was "shocked" and did not know what the remark referred to.

"It's important to confirm this. It was in front of witnesses. Journalists have witnessed this," Levitt said. A reporter also alleges that he overheard the double-amputee Olympian making the comment to Myers.

Members of the Myers family have been present for much of Pistorius' murder trial, sitting on a wooden bench reserved for friends and family just feet away from Pistorius.

Pistorius told reporters in the courtroom that he did not make the comment and hadn't spoken to members of the Myers family for weeks. His lawyer, Brian Webber, said Pistorius also told him that the allegation was untrue.

"I've asked the client and he denies that he said it," Webber told The AP.

Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder for shooting Steenkamp through a toilet cubicle door on Feb. 14, 2013. He pleaded not guilty and says he shot his girlfriend by mistake after thinking she was an intruder in his home. Prosecutors say they fought before the famed athlete killed her intentionally.

None of us were there. We truly can only speculate. That being said, I believe him to be guilty of intentionally shooting his girlfriend.
She was found dead, in the bathroom, with both his cell and her cell phone. I think she woke in the middle of the night, grabbed his phone, locked herself in the bathroom and when he woke to find her missing and then his phone also missing, knew she had been going through his phone perhaps looking at his texts to another woman.

Again, I am speculating.

How can anyone call this woman's death an accident?

Weapons are not known to discharge several times accidently.Even after the "first accidental discharge" it could have stopped. Could a fearful scream have stopped any accidental discharges.

This man is not a lion tamer, he's a lying ba---rd.

Just my humble opinion.