New Oscar claim

Prosecutors in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial say they have evidence that the Paralympic star told security guards that everything was "fine" after his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot, eNCA reports.

The is according to documents from the prosecution that the television news channel says are in its possession.

eNCA reported last night that the prosecution claims to have evidence that the guards at Pistorius's Pretoria townhouse complex phoned him after the shooting to ask if everything was okay at his home. He allegedly replied that things were "fine" and he did not ask for their assistance.

The prosecutors appeared to have backtracked on previous evidence, eNCA reported.

At Pistorius's bail hearing a year ago, they claimed he had put on his prosthetic legs, walked into his bathroom, positioned himself against the basin and fired the bullets he knew would kill Steenkamp.

Now, the news channel said, the state's own ballistics expert has backed Pistorius's claims that he was on his stumps when he shot Steenkamp. Pistorious maintained that the shooting was a tragic accident.

AFP quoted the National Prosecuting Authority as saying it had not leaked the documents to eNCA.

Spokesman Nathi Mncube said: "We don't give anything to any person other than the defence, and if it gets leaked, it won't be us."

The trial is to start on March 3.