Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial Evidence and Findings: Blade Runner Made Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp 'Scared Out of My Mind,' Text Claims
The Oscar Pistorius murder trial continues on, and in the latest development, texts from his late girlfriend -- and murder victim -- Reeva Steenkamp were read into evidence, and their content indicates that Oscar was abusive for quite some time!
ABC News is reporting that one of Reeva Steenkamp's last texts to Pistorius was read into evidence, and the contents shocked the jury. "I get snapped at and told my accents and my voice are annoying. i touch your neck to show u i care you tell me to stop. Stop chewing gum. do this don't do that," the text read. "I'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me... I do everything to make u happy and to not say anything to rock the boat with u. you do everything to throw tantrums in front of people."
Less than three weeks after Reeva sent the text, she was shot dead on Valentine's Day. Pistorius admitted to shooting her, but is claiming that the shooting was an accident, and he thought Reeva was an intruder at the time.
This isn't the first time that the model and television personality said that she was afraid of Pistorius. According to The U.K. Independent, in another text, Reeva claimed that she tried to represent the para-athlete "well" at social events, and was trying to make him "proud," to no avail.
Another time, Pistorius told the model that his friend -- fellow athlete Darren Fresco -- will be taking the blame for his gun going off in public. "Angel, please don't say a thing to any one, Darren told everyone it was his fault. I can't afford for that to come out. The guys promised not to say a thing." Steenkamp kept her word about not telling anyone.
Additional texts revealed that Pistorius frequently railed against Steenkamp, often over the smallest of incidents (such as his flipping out on her when he found out she smoked a joint after she came back from Jamaica).
On the defense side, however, Pistorius claimed that those few instances were isolated -- that 90 percent of the text messages between the couple were "loving."