June Steenkamp, mother of Reeva Steenkamp, looks on at the murder trial of Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, April 10, 2014. Murder-accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius insisted on Thursday he did not see his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp get out of bed moments before he shot her dead.
"I don't know how she got up out of bed," Pistorius told the High Court in Pretoria.
Later he said: "I don't know when she got out of bed, My Lady."
He said his back was facing the room, which was "pitch black" after he had brought a fan in and closed his specially made black-out curtains.
He had spoken to her moments earlier with his head in his hands, but had not looked at her when he woke up in the early hours of Valentine's Day.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel had wanted to know how Pistorius managed to spot a pair of Steenkamp's jeans lying on the floor in that darkness but did not see her.
Pistorius explained that the light was from the LED light emitted by the amplifier in his room.
According to his earlier testimony, he was about to cover the amplifier light with the jeans after neither he nor Steenkamp could sleep.
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