A neighbour of Oscar Pistorius has told how she heard screams and four gunshots on the night the star killed Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius is charged with murdering his girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year, and the highly anticipated trial is now under way.
The first witness, neighbour Michell Burger, told the court how on the night of the killing she woke up at 3am to the sound of "terrible screams" and called security.
"She screamed terribly and she yelled for help. Then I also heard a man screaming for help. Three times he yelled for help.
"Just after her screams, I heard four shots. It was very traumatic for me. You could hear that it was bloodcurdling screams."
When pressed by Pistorius' lawyer Gerrie Nel whether the shots could have been fired before she woke up, she insisted she had heard gunshots.
Mr Nel suggested to her that she had only heard the sound of Pistorius hitting the toilet door with a cricket bat after the shooting. She denies this.
