BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Oscar Pistorius has told a packed courtroom that he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was a burglar. The judge said Pistorius would be tried for premeditated murder.

The South African paralympic champion said that he had been "deeply in love", and had no intention of killing her.

Having had previous death threats, Pistorius reported that he slept with a pistol under his bed in his Pretoria home. He awoke in the middle of the night, and said he thought an intruder had climbed through the window of his bathroom. Only after firing into the locked bathroom door did he realize his girlfriend was not in bed. He said he then put on his prosthetic legs, tried to kick down the door, and then bashed it in with a cricket bat to find his girlfriend inside.

(Source: cntv.com)