Oscar Pistorius’ defence team has been presenting its closing arguments in the athlete’s murder trial.<br /><br />State prosecutor Gerrie Nel has spent the trial, which began in March, depicting the double amputee as a gun-obsessed hothead who deliberately shot his 29-year-old girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.<br /><br />Pistorius’ lawyer Barry Roux has been trying to prove the police twisted evidence while the prosecution distorted facts. <br /><br />“You’re vulnerable, you’re anxious. You’re trained as an athlete to react,” Roux said, adding that Pistorious had felt exposed because he was standing on the stumps of his legs.<br /><br />Pistorius is accused of killing his Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, at his home in Pretoria on Valentine’s Day last year.<br /><br />The defence claims he should be convicted of the potentially lesser charge of culpable homicide, which could carry a 15 year sentence. <br /><br />He faces at least 25 years in jail if found guilty of murder. <br /><br />The judge is expected to deliver a verdict between one and four weeks.
