Oscar Pistorius girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp: You scare me

Capt Francois Moller read a message to the court, in which Reeva Steenkamp said she was "scared" of Oscar Pistorius.Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp sent him a text message saying: "I'm scared of you sometimes," his murder trial has heard.
The message was sent after the couple had a row when he accused her of flirting with another man - weeks before he shot her dead.
A police captain has been testifying about the couple's mobile phones.
Mr Pistorius denies deliberately killing his girlfriend of three months, saying he thought she was an intruder.

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I can't be attacked by outsiders for dating you and be attacked by you - the one person I deserve protection from” Reeva Steenkamp to Oscar Pistorius

The trial has now entered is fourth week, with the prosecution expected to wrap up its case before Friday.

Capt Francois Moller said he had been able to extract some 35,000 pages' worth of messages from Ms Steenkamp's phone.
He told the court on Monday that 90% of the messages between the couple were loving, but he had picked out exceptions.
'Jealous and possessive' Mr Pistorius has said he has forgotten the password to his iPhone and investigators went to the US shortly before the trial began to meet Apple officials to try and gain access to it.
In one message sent on 27 January 2013, Ms Steenkamp wrote: "I'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me and of how you react to me." 
 
The couple had attended an engagement dinner and left abruptly.
In another message she wrote: "I can't be attacked by outsiders for dating you and be attacked by you - the one person I deserve protection from."The BBC's Andrew Harding in Pretoria says some of the messages read in court could be extremely damaging for Mr Pistorius, who has spoken of the couple being in a loving relationship.

The BBC's Andrew Harding in Pretoria says some of the messages read in court could be extremely damaging for Mr Pistorius, who has spoken of the couple being in a loving relationship.

Ms Steenkamp's messages paint a picture of the athlete as a jealous and possessive boyfriend, our correspondent adds.