'Blood-curdling screams' heard before gunshots, Pistorius trial told

The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has told a court she heard “blood-curdling” screams before the sound of four gunshots on the night the Olympian killed his girlfriend.

Michell Burger, a woman who lives on an estate next to Pistorius’s gated community, said she and her husband were awoken by the screams in the pre-dawn hours of February 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp by shooting four times through a door in his bathroom.