‘I’m scared of u sometimes,’ Steenkamp texted Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp argued fiercely in the turbulent weeks before he killed her, according to phone messages revealed at the Olympian’s murder trial.

‘I’m scared of u sometimes,’ Steenkamp texted Pistorius

The athlete’s girlfriend told him she was sometimes scared by his behaviour, which included jealous outbursts in front of other people, the court in Pretoria heard.

“I’m scared of u sometimes and how u snap at me and of how u will react to me,” Reeva Steenkamp texted Pistorius, in a message read out in court by police captain Francois Moller.

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