Chilling leaked footage has emerged that shows South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius re-enacting the moment he shot and killed his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The harrowing video, which shows Pistorius as he runs towards the the camera with one arm outstretched as if holding a gun, was broadcast on the Sunday Night documentary slot of Australia’s Channel Seven.
Pistorius, who was born without a fibula bone in either leg and had his lower legs amputated before he could walk, is seen moving quite quickly and with a high level of agility for a man without the bottom half of his legs.
Pistorius can be seen running towards and away from the camera and circling back around the living room of his home. As he re-enacts the scene he explains to investigators: ‘I heard the noise and fired four shots.’
It is unclear why the footage was prepared and why it was not shown during his trial.
The footage is overlayed with a recording of Pistorious’ voice, a recreation of the moment he claims he warned what he believed was an intruder in the bathroom.
‘I’ll call the police, get out, get out! Get the f*** out!,’ he said.
The paralympian can then be heard screaming and shouting hysterically after he opened the door to find his girlfriend dead on the bathroom floor.
‘Please, God, please, please help. Help me. Help me!’
In another scene the athlete can be seen on all fours, dragging a woman from a bathroom similar to the one in which he shot Miss Steenkamp.
Later in the chilling footage, Pistorius is timed on how long it takes him to put his prosthetic legs on, just over 25 seconds.
He then recreates the moment, slumping himself over the toilet with his legs splayed on the floor, he found his girlfriend ‘bleeding to death’ after he beat down the bathroom door with a cricket bat.
Scott Roder, an American crime scene specialist, told Sunday Night that when he had his legs or blades on Pistorius was a confident man. However when he was without them he felt vulnerable.
‘When he’s on his stumps, he’s short, the confidence washes away from his face,’ Mr Roder said.
The program reported that Mr Roder prepared a full analysis of the crime scene and supplied it to Pistorius’ defence team.
Earlier on Sunday a leaked promotional clip was released by Seven.
This week a psychiatrist told the Pretoria court that Pistorius could not simply run away if he found himself in a vulnerable position. Even turning around is ‘quite a process’, he said.
The video is reported to have been shot by an American company and Pistorius’ lawyers are said to be livid at how the video was released.
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Pistorius’ spokeswoman Anneliese Burgress has said the 27-year-old’s legal advisors are seeking ‘urgent clarification’ from the broadcaster in relation to the footage.
It was reported before the trial that an American firm called The Evidence Room was preparing an animated re-enactment of the events, but no mention was made of it in court.
