Bangs 'too quick to be bat swings', Pistorius trial told

A neighbour of Oscar Pistorius has told a court the bangs he heard after a woman’s screams on the night of the fatal shooting came too quickly to be the sounds of a cricket bat on a door, as the athlete’s defence team claims.

Johan Stipp, a radiologist and one of the first responders to the incident, testified at the murder trial in Pretoria that he earlier heard a woman’s screams and a man’s shouts before a second grouping of sounds that he said were gunshots on the night Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.