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'Oscar Pistorius has to pay for what he did,' Barry Steenkamp tells sentencing hearing – live 'Oscar Pistorius has to pay for what he did,' Barry Steenkamp tells sentencing hearing – live
(35 minutes later)
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This is perhaps two separate confrontations; we have now moved to the table-banging episode. Roux is picking apart Mashabane’s description of the table-banging incident.
Mashabane is now talking about another occasion when she was told Pistorius was looking for her. He wanted a supplement and a device that were not prescribed, she says, and the prison doctor was unfamiliar with it. She says he was shaking and she stayed calm.
Mashabane says she googled the device and wrote a memo for the doctor. He banged his notebook on the table, she says.
The problem was the process, she goes on. It is not something that can be approved in two days. Not his fist, Roux asks. Because Nel yesterday said he was banging with his fist on the table.
Pistorius came looking for her, she says. He banged on the table, she adds. He was holding a notebook and used it to bang close to where she was sitting. And now it’s become a notebook. So it was never with his fist.
Mashabane says Pistorius told her the doctor was “useless” and that she herself was “not competent”, she tells the court. 11.42am BST
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11:07 Was what Pistorius was asking so bad, Roux wants to know. The prison medication didn’t work – he simply wanted his own medication.
Mashabane is asked about the confrontation mentioned in court yesterday – when Pistorius reportedly banged on a table in front of her. It was the attitude, Mashabane tells him. He was angry. He demanded medication that was not allowed.
She confirms there was a confrontation during her morning rounds. He shouted and screamed at her, she says: She starts to talk about Pistorius “throwing things” down on the table.
He said, get out, get out, I am still sleeping. You didn’t mention this previously, Roux says. He accuses her of making it sound worse.
This was on 1 March 2015, she confirms. Why do I get the impression that you want to say something about him that’s negative because the two of you are not very compatible personalities?
11.03am BST Roux asks why Pistorius did not shake her hand if she was so nice to him.
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Mashabane said she was involved in admitting Pistorius to prison. He was accommodated in the hospital wing that held only two people. It had two cells and a gym, she says. 11:38
11.02am BST Roux clarifies that Mashabane interacted with Pistorius every day for about six months.
11:02 #Pistorius Roux: He said he wants his medication - was that so terrible. Mashabane: (very forcefully) It was terrible!
Court resumes #OscarPistorius Mashabane induces laughs in court when she says it was ‘terrible’ that OP had unknown medicines in the prison
We will now hear from prison nurse Charlotte Mashabane. 11.35am BST
She was mentioned during the cross-examination yesterday of defence witness Prof Scholtz. 11:35
10.30am BST Nel turns to the evidence yesterday about Pistorius witnessing a hanging.
10:30 Mashabane says the ward in question was not visible from the hospital wing where Pistorius was held:
Barry Steenkamp testimony: summary Ward 4 is very far from where Mr Pistorius was staying.
Oscar has to pay for what he did. He has to pay for it … She says the inmate hanged himself shortly after being taken to this ward.
That is up to the court. And we will go by the decision that the court hands down to Oscar. But he has to pay from his crime. Nel’s questioning is over now, and Roux is on his feet.
I don’t want to say that he has to go to the maximum … But he has to pay for it. 11.33am BST
But I hear her crying at night. I hear her talking to Reeva. She feels just as much as I do. 11:33
Updated Mashabane says that in court Pistorius greeted all officials apart from her
at 10.48am BST It didn’t worry me … It is his choice.
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10:01 11:32
Steenkamp: Pistorius 'has to pay for what he did' Nel asks who would have had action to the wing where Pistorius was kept. Mashabane says there is a security guard, and other inmates are not allowed in there.
Roux has no more questions for Barry Steenkamp. Yesterday, the court was told by the defence witness that Pistorius was assaulted. Mashabane says there was no report of that and she would have known about it.
Nel has one more issue to address. He mentions the testimony of Dr Scholtz yesterday, who said the Steenkamp family have forgiven Pistorius. He did have a “blue eye” (black eye) on one occasion, she says. He slipped in the gym, she understands from the injury form.
Steenkamp says his wife June is a Christian Nel refers again to testimony yesterday, this time that his hand was injured when he banged on the table. Mashabane says she had never heard of this.
She feels it’s right in her heart to forgive Oscar … It still does not exonerate you for the crime that you committed. 11.29am BST
He must still understand that he has to pay for that. 11:29
June has forgiven him so that she can carry on with her life. Mashabane says that “after several incidents” with Pistorius, she was asked not to “interact any more” with him.
He says it has been difficult for him to forgive. After that she never worked with him again, she tells the court.
But I feel the same, that Oscar has to pay for what he did. He has to pay for it … 11.28am BST
That is up to the court. And we will go by the decision that the court hands down to Oscar. But he has to pay from his crime. 11:28
I don’t want to say that he has to go to the maximum … But he has to pay for it. Nel asks if Pistorius was taking antidepressant drugs molipaxin and cipralex.
9.54am BST Mashabane says he had these medications when he was admitted. They should be kept by prison staff.
09:54 Nel asks why Pistorius had 28 molipaxin and 14 cipralex in his cell. Mashabane says they would never have given him so many, and would only have given one day at a time.
Nel has finished. Barry Roux for the defence begins by saying he is “very, very sorry” for the loss of Reeva. He cannot bring her back. #OscarPistorius Mashabane say they would never have given him the large amount of medicine that was found with him - only daily meds.MV
He asks about the “many” efforts Pistorius made to contact the family but they declined. 11.25am BST
If you were in my position, you might understand, Steenkamp tells him. 11:25
In tears, he adds that in future, he would like to talk to Pistorius. Prison nurse tells of Pistorius 'tantrums'
Roux tells him that can happen when he is ready. Mashabane says that when a family member brings in a medication, it has to be cleared.
9.52am BST Pistorius’ family brought something for him in February 2015, she says.
09:52 Her testimony is very detailed, but in brief, she says it was unclear who had arranged access to the medication. Mashabane asked that the medication be given to her. She locked it in her drug cupboard.
He says his wife June has been depicted as a “stone-faced woman”: Pistorius came to her to ask for this medication. She said no: it was not the procedure. It was not on his prescription.
But I hear her crying at night. I hear her talking to Reeva. She feels just as much as I do.” He started again with tantrums again.
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Steenkamp says the only photograph he has seen of his daughter was the one shown to the court. Mashabane says Pistorius applied to be seen by his private doctor, Dr Van Wyk. She rang this doctor herself, she tells the court, and then drove to speak to her. She tells the court she did not want to slow down the process.
A lot of people will disagree with me and think that I’m callous … But what I would like the world to see are the wounds inflicted on to Reeva and the pain she must have gone through, so the world can see this. Nel asks if Van Wyk told her that she was Pistorius’ cousin. Mashabane says she did not.
9.49am BST Nel says the doctor was newly qualified.
09:49 But she was approved to visit him. Mashabane says she was approved even though she worked in a government hospital and would not normally be allowed to practise privately as well.
Turning to the relationship between Reeva Steenkamp and Pistorius, her father says he didn’t know about it, adding that she would have told him when the “time was right”.
#OscarPistorius The question re Reeva’s relationship may be designed to show it wasn’t serious (for Reeva at least)
He says he and his wife have not had any direct contact with Pistorius.
On the R6,500 per month paid by Pistorius to the Steenkamps, he says that was arranged by legal teams.
We were in dire financial straits, he says.
The payments were supposed to be private and confidential but were brought up in court by the defence:
I was disgusted by that.
The family declined further offers of money, he says.
It’s my daughter that’s gone. It’s not the money.