OSCAR PISTORIUS stunned onlookers in a Pretoria courtroom last week when he took off his prostheses and walked unsteadily across the room in an effort to avoid a heavy jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The unexpected move was watched by a mesmerised courtroom and the images then relayed across the world.
Barry Roux, who leads the former Paralympic sprinter’s defence team, said they wanted to show the court that Pistorius was not a “strong, ambitious man winning gold medals”.