The judge overseeing Oscar Pistorius's murder trial adjourned the case on Friday -- the day the Paralympian was expected to take the stand for the first time -- because a top court official was sick.
"One of my assessors is not well," said Judge Thokozile Masipa. "I suggest that we postpone this matter to the 7th of April."
As the only surviving witness to the events inside his house in the early hours of February 14, 2013, Pistorius has the strongest word in his defence that he was in a loving relationship with Reeva Steenkamp and that her death was a tragic accident.
The 27-year-old has to explain why he fired four shots at the model and aspiring television actress through a locked toilet door, and undermine prosecutors' argument her death was premeditated murder.
It will be the first time he speaks in public since the Valentine's Day killing, besides pleading "not guilty, milady", and the occasional "yes, milady" to Judge Thokozile Masipa during his trial.
The judge overseeing Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial adjourned the case on Friday — the day the Paralympian was expected to take the stand for the first time — because a top court official was sick.
“One of my assessors is not well,” said Judge Thokozile Masipa. “I suggest that we postpone this matter to the 7th of April.”
As the only surviving witness to the events inside his house in the early hours of February 14, 2013, Pistorius has the strongest word in his defence that he was in a loving relationship with Reeva Steenkamp and that her death was a tragic accident.
The 27-year-old has to explain why he fired four shots at the model and aspiring television actress through a locked toilet door, and undermine prosecutors’ argument her death was premeditated murder.
It will be the first time he speaks in public since the Valentine’s Day killing, besides pleading “not guilty, milady”, and the occasional “yes, milady” to Judge Thokozile Masipa during his trial.
