From on
going investigations Detectives have reportedly recovered a bloodied
cricket bat from Oscar Pistorius' bedroom and have established that
Reeva Steenkamp’s skull had been 'crushed'.
Reeva
Steenkamp, 29, was shot four times in the early hours of Thursday
morning at Oscar Pistorius’ luxury home in a secure housing estate on
the outskirts of Pretoria.
From
investigations that have been carried out, the police are saying have
said there was no sign of a forced entry at the modern property and that
no one else was at home.
Dailymail
further reported that they have also rubbished speculation that
Pistorius who is known to have kept a pistol by his bed and a machine
gun at his bedroom window may have mistaken his girlfriend of four
months for an intruder.
While no officials would yesterday comment publicly on the case, a disturbing - though disputed - picture of what may have happened in Pistorius’ home started to emerge.
The sportsman’s neighbours have told how, at around 1.30am, they heard shouting coming from the house then, at around 3.20am, four shots rang out.
Oscar
Pistorius - and later paramedics - struggled in vain to save Miss
Steenkamp’s life. As they did, police found the bloodied cricket bat in
the athlete’s bedroom.
The
bedroom’s en-suite bathroom door was riddled with holes; a pistol’s
holster was found by Pistorius’ bed and a gun cartridge was on the
floor.
Yesterday
South Africa’s City Press quoted an unnamed police source as saying:
'The suspicion is that the first shot, in the bedroom, hit her in the
hip.
'She then ran and locked herself in the toilet. She was doubled over because of the pain. He fired three more shots.
'She probably covered her head, which is why the bullet also went through her hand.'
The source allegedly told the paper that they are still examining the cricket bat in order to determine whose blood is on it.
They also want to establish whether Pistorius had taken drugs or steroids which may have caused him to become enraged.
While one
scenario is that Pistorius attacked Miss Steenkamp with the bat, it has
also been claimed that the model may also have used it to defend
herself.
A third possibility is that Pistorius used it to break down the door behind which Miss Steenkamp was hiding.
However,
those close to Pistorius have suggested that he may have tried to break
into his own bathroom in order to 'save' his dying girlfriend.
According to this theory, the confused sportsman first shot Miss Steenkamp by accident, whereupon she fled to the en-suite bathroom.
He then shot at the door to try and get to her.
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