Inside the bathroom where Reeva Steenkam was shot dead

Chilling photos have emerged of the bathroom where Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend lay dying after he gunned her down through the door.

The luxurious stone-clad en-suite is now the focus of a murder inquiry as investigators try to piece together what happened in the toilet cubicle where Reeva Steenkamp spent her last moments.  

Prosecutors argue the model was trapped in there hiding from Pistorius, while he claims his girlfriend was using the bathroom after getting up in the night at his upscale Pretoria home.
 
In a sworn affidavit Pistorius stated that he thought someone was in the bathroom and shot at them because he 'noticed that the bathroom window was open.I realised that the intruder/s was/were in the toilet because the toilet door was closed and I did not see anyone in the bathroom. I heard movement inside the toilet.'
'It filled me with horror and fear of an intruder or intruders being inside the toilet. I thought he or they must have entered through the unprotected window,' he stated.

Prosecutors believe that Pistorius, picked up his gun, strapped on his prosthetic legs and stood near the large corner bath, before taking aim at the cubicle door.

He shot four times and hit Miss Steenkamp three times - it is thought she was sitting on the toilet when she was hit in the arm, head, hip and finger by bullets.
The door was broken down - Pistorius claims he battered it down with a cricket bat to reach his bloodied and dying girlfriend and found her 'slumped over but alive'

The bathroom was the key focus for both the defence and the prosecution at today's bail hearing at Pretoria magistrates court.

Painting a picture of a premeditated murder prosecutor Gerrie Nel said that Miss Steenkamp was shot when she took refuge in the bathroom after the couple had been arguing.

'The applicant armed himself, attached his prosthesis, walked seven metres to the bathroom and shot the deceased while she was in the toilet.

'He shot four times...There's no possible explanation to support his report that he thought it was a burglar,' he said.

'If I arm myself, walk a distance and murder a person, that is premeditated,' he said. 'The door is closed. There is no doubt. I walk seven metres and I kill.'
The motive is 'I want to kill'. That's it,' he added. 

'This deceased was in a 1.4 by 1.14 metre little room. She could go nowhere.'
Mr Nel said the killing was premeditated because Pistorius had planned to say that he thought he was shooting an intruder.

'It was all part of the pre-planning. Why would a burglar lock himself inside the bathroom?' Mr Nel said.
'She locked that door for a purpose. We'll get to that purpose.
That is where she was when those shots were fired. She couldn't go anywhere. It must have been horrific.'

But Pistorius's lawyer, Barry Roux, said Miss Steenkamp was not murdered, and there were a number of cases where men shot members of their own family through doors after mistaking them for burglars.

He also suggested that Pistorius broke down the bathroom door after the shooting to help his girlfriend.
'We submit it is not even murder,' Mr Roux said. 'There is no concession this is a murder.'

In a sworn affidavit, the 26-year-old, who broke down in tears on several occasions, said the pair were in bed together when he woke up and went onto a balcony to bring a fan inside.

Source: Daily mail