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Oscar Pistorius Weeps On Witness Stand

Raishad Hardnett |
April 7, 2014 | 3:37 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius wept on the stand on Monday, saying he is still "scared to sleep" since he shot his girlfriend through his bathroom door. (Image via Luckie Entertainment)
Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius wept on the stand on Monday, saying he is still "scared to sleep" since he shot his girlfriend through his bathroom door. (Image via Luckie Entertainment)
Speaking in a trembling, sometimes hard to hear voice, Oscar Pistorius - the olympic athlete who is accused of murdering his former girlfriend - spoke on the witness stand on Monday for the first time since his trial began.

"There is not a moment an there hasn't been a moment since this tragedy happened that I haven't thought about your family," he told the mother of Reeva Steenkamp. "I wake up in the morning and you're the first people I think of, the first people I pray for."

ALSO SEE: Oscar Pistorius Pleads Not Guilty 

Pistorius is charged of shooting his girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year in his home in Pretoria, South Africa; he says he mistook her for an intruder. 

On the stand, he said the incident still haunts him to this today. 

"I'm scared to sleep. I have terrible nightmares about things that happened that night. I smell the blood and wake up terrified."

ALSO SEE: On Pistorius: How To Build A Sports Hero 

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