Oscar Pistorius has described the moment he found Reeva Sttenkamp after shooting her and said he tried to stop her bleeding.
Speaking of the moments after discovering her body in the toilet, Pistorius said he initially thought she did not have a pulse - but then felt her breathing.
He told the court today: "She was sitting with her weight on top of the toilet bowl. I checked to see if she was breathing and she wasn't. I pulled her weight on to me and I sat there crying for some time.
"I felt her head on my shoulder and I could feel the blood running down me.
June Steenkamp, Reeva's mother, watches today's proceedings "I thought I felt her breathing. I could see her arm was broken.
"I was trying to pick Reeva up. I could see she was still breathing. She was struggling to breathe."
Pistorius said that he rang 911 and also security - but did not remember either call clearly.
"After I got off the phone with 911, I ran downstairs to open the front door. I could barely pick Reeva up. I opened the front door.
"I ran back up to my room. I went back to the bathroom and tried to pick up Reeva. I got to the second flight of stairs. I was shouting and screaming for help in getting her to the hospital."
Pistorius said he was told to put Reeva down as neighbours told him that an ambulance was on its way.
"I just sat there and waited for the ambulance to arrive. I had my fingers in her mouth to help her breathe. I had my hand on her hip to try and stop the bleeding.
"Reeva had already died when I was holding her so I knew there was nothing the ambulance could do.
"Then the paramedic came to me and said she would like to inform me that Reeva had passed.
"The paramedic asked me if there was some form of id. I went to get Reeva's handbag."
Pistorius said that police officers then arrived and checked the house to see if anyone else was there.
"I asked the policeman if I could wash my hands because the smell of the blood was making me throw up. I washed my hands and face."
Oscar Pistorius said Reeva died in his arms Yesterday, Pistorius wept uncontrollably in the dock as he described shooting dead his girlfriend, claiming he though she was an intruder.
The court case was halted for the day because the 27-year-old Paralympian was unable to continue giving evidence, wailing in court: "She was everything."
Today, if time allows, he faces cross-examination from prosecuting barrister Gerrie Nel - who is known as the "pit bull" in South Africa.
Mr Nel is famed for securing the conviction, for corruption, of the country's former police commissioner, Jackie Selebi.
Selebi's defence crumbled during a marathon eight days of cross examination.
This morning, Pistorius continued being questioned by his defence barrister, Barry Roux .
In dramatic scenes yesterday afternoon, Pistorius described finding his girlfriend's body in the toilet of his home after pulling the trigger of his gun four times.
Pistorius collapsed into tears and was consoled by his sister Aimee and one of his lawyers who rushed through the courtroom to his side.
The athlete's emotional breakdown failed to move June Steenkamp, Reeva's mother, who stared, stony-faced at the defendant, as he was consoled by family and friends.
Sky's Alex Crawford, who was at the court, described the wailing as "like animal sounds" coming from the athlete.
"He was consoled by his sister, but he continued making these loud wailing noises - it was very emotional," Crawford said.
Earlier, the athlete took his prosthetic legs off in court to to relive the moments leading to, during and after the shooting on Valentine's Day last year.
He described how he begged Reeva to call the police and grabbed his gun in the darkness after thinking he had heard an intruder in the bathroom of his home.
He told the court that just hours before he shot Reeva, 29, dead she had been doing yoga at the foot of his bed, stopping from time to time to kiss him affectionately.
Pistorius recounted the events of the evening in fine detail as he sought to persuade the judge that Reeva's death was a terrible mistake.
He denies premeditated murder and illegally possessing ammunition and two further counts related to shooting a gun in public in separate incidents prior to the killing.
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