Twenty-seven-year-old Oscar Pistorius has started giving evidence at his trial for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in South Africa.
Breaking down in tears, the double amputee said he couldn’t imagine “the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness” he had caused her family.
Pistorius claims he accidentally killed Steenkamp at his Pretoria home in February 2013 after mistaking her for an intruder.
The 29-year-old was killed after Pistorius fired a 9 mm pistol through his toilet door while Steenkamp was in the cubicle.
Earlier in the day he was seen crying and hunched over as pathologist professor Jan Botha gave evidence.
Botha said Steenkamp may not have had a chance to scream before being shot, contradicting the prosecutions' claim she screamed during the altercation and that Pistorius would have known it was her in the toilet and not an intruder.