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Steenkamp text message outlines how she was 'scared' of Pistorius
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Oscar Pistorius’s girlfriend told the athlete she was sometimes scared of him and complained about what she described as his short temper and jealousy in the weeks before he killed her, according to phone messages revealed at the Olympian’s murder trial.

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‘Weeping Pistorius prayed: let her live’

As his girlfriend lay dying, a weeping, praying Oscar Pistorius knelt at her side and struggled in vain to help her breathe by holding two fingers in her clenched mouth, a witness told a South African court.

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Pistorius prayed over dying girlfriend, court hears
Pistorius prayed over dying girlfriend, court hears

As his girlfriend lay dying, a weeping, praying Oscar Pistorius knelt at her side and struggled in vain to help her breathe by holding two fingers in her clenched mouth, a witness told a South African court.

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