Magistrate Daniel Thulare also extended bail for Pistorius, South Africa's Paralympic sprint star.
 Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius. Screenshot: YouTube
Oscar Pistorius, the first double amputee to participate in the Olympics, had fatally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a South African model, at his Pretoria home in the early hours on 14 February 2013. The athlete had fired four shots through a locked bathroom door, hitting the woman three times inside the bathroom.
Pistorius has said he thought a nighttime intruder was inside his house. He said he ran on his stumps to the bathroom, where he shot through a door. It was only upon returning to his bedroom, Pistorius claimed, that he realized his girlfriend was not in bed and that she was actually the one in the bathroom.
Prosecution claimed that Pistorius had an argument with the 29-year-old model, put on his prosthetic legs, walked across his bedroom to the bathroom, and intentionally shot the model hiding in the bathroom. It has been argued that the time required for this process was sufficient to establish the murder as "premeditated”. If convicted of premeditated murder, Pistorius could face life in prison.
The couple had been dating for a few months. Steenkamp's mother has said the two had had heated rows. The paralympian insists he was deeply in love with Steenkamp. He said that after he realised his mistake he did everything to save the woman, battering the toilet door with a cricket bat to get to her.
On 22 February, at the conclusion of the four-day bail hearing, the Palalympic star was released on bail of 1 million rant ($113,000).
The crime scene. Screenshot: YouTube
On Monday some photographs from the crime scene were leaked, apparently showing the scene of the killing for the first time. The photo of the bathroom shows a toilet covered in blood, a door with a missing panel and what appear to be two police-marked bullet holes below the level of the door's handle.
The police investigation into the killing has been beset by problems and scandals since the start.
Oscar Pistorius is a South African sprint runner. Although both of his legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old, he competes in events for single below-knee amputees and for able-bodied athletes.
At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, Pistorius became the first amputee to win an able-bodied world track medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Pistorius became the first double leg amputee to participate in the Olympics when he entered the men's 400 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay races. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Pistorius won gold medals in the men's 400 metre race and in the 4 × 100 metres relay, setting world records in both events. He also took a silver in the 200 metres race, having set a world record in the semifinal.
After the murder the sportsman has lost lucrative contracts with US sportswear giant Nike and French cosmetics firm Clarins, among others, and has reportedly also been fined about one million rand for undeclared taxes.