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Oscar Pistorius left court in Pretoria on Wednesday (April 9th) after an intense third day of cross-examination in the witness box at the Pretoria Supreme Court.

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A sombre-faced Oscar Pistorius left Pretoria Supreme Court on Wednesday, following an intense cross-examination by the chief prosecutor in his trial for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Gerrie Nel urged the athlete to "take responsibility" for fatally shooting his girlfriend, telling him to look at a police photograph of Reeva Steenkamp's bloodied head with gruesome wounds.

The photograph showed a side view of Steenkamp's head, with a mass of blood and human tissue on the back and upper parts.

Nel had set the stage for a rigourous cross-examination by demanding that Pistorius openly say he killed his girlfriend, sharply challenging him when the Olympian said he had made a "mistake."