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it s not impossible, improbable. i don t want to argue the point. i want to. if reeva switched off the alarm and went down to eat and came upstairs i don t now, milady. i was sleeping. we ate after 7:00, and that s the last time that i think mr. pistorius, this particular point i put to you is devastating for your version because it cannot, it s an objective set of facts, and it cannot fit into your version. what do you want to say to that? i don t see how reeva could have possibly eaten after 7:00. we re talking now about the possibilities. when i ate, we ate together, and we ate just after 7:00, and we ate about 20 minutes, half an
you did. why are you getting emotional no now? . [ sobbing ] i did not fire at reeva. and we were just talking, our legal analyst, i spent several years covering the courts in the local news, and this is not an aggressive pros ecutor, but he s repeatedly accusatory, and he started the day saying that he would prove that pistorius was lying, and he had testify ed iea concocted version of events, and did he poke holes into the story? yes, he did, and there were two things that pistorius needed to do with the testimony. he needed to be consistent and believable, and at this point, he se struggling for both. and one example, prior to the cross-examination, he has always said that he shot the gun four times in self-defense, because he thought that there was an intruder, and he knows now that he was mistaken, but all along he said that was an intentional
is starting to make pistoriuslo looking is breaking down is rial just acting basically. he s trying to make the case that reeva was standing behind the bathroom door, she was or standing, wasn t using the ent bathroom facility, she was standing behind the door and having an argument through the door, which we established the other night, the prosecution established she locked with a ti key from the inside saying a that s why she was standing because she was arguing with you. we have a little bit of that. i want to get your thought on that. sure. of she was standing right in front of the door talking to yoe when you shot her, that s the only reasonable explanation fora her standing upright, that s the only reasonable explanation whye you shot hear in the head the way you did. it s not true, my lady. she wasn t scared of anything except you.
my lady, i m getting confused with this accidentally and not accidentally. reporter: this is where the prosecutor stands but what the cameras don t show is how close he is to oscar pistorius on the witness stand and that proximity is what creates so much tension in this courtroom. that intensified never to you and you never to her. reporter: he questioned pistorius love for steenkamp. i never got the opportunity to tell reeva that i loved her. reporter: the strategy, if the prosecution can show pistorius was untruthful about these key moments then they hope the judge won t believe the killing was an accident. it s working say court watchers. what did the prosecutor do to pistorius credibility. it s gone. it s totally shattered. reporter: and proving his story is just the beginning. matt gutman, abc news, pretoria, south africa. this is a difficult story to watch. what happened is terrible and just hearing some of his testimony. i know. it s really hard and a lot