Oscar Pistorius has formally been charged of premeditated murder

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was formally charged with the premeditated murder of his girlfriend. In reply to this charges Oscar Pistorius said:

"I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premeditated murder, as I had no intention to kill my girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. I deny the aforesaid allegation in the strongest terms."

According to espn.com, Prosecutors have said the double-amputee Olympian committed premeditated murder, planning the slaying, then firing at Reeva Steenkamp as she cowered behind his locked bathroom door with no hope of escape.

"She couldn't go anywhere," Prosecutor Gerrie Nel told a packed courtroom Tuesday. "It must have been horrific." Weeping uncontrollably, Pistorius listened as his words were read out in court by his attorney during the opening of a two-day bail hearing, his first public account of the events surrounding the shooting death of Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model and reality TV star who had spoken out against violence against women.

"I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premeditated murder, as I had no intention to kill my girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp," Pistorius said in the sworn affidavit. "I deny the aforesaid allegation in the strongest terms."

A prosecutor said Reeva Steenkamp was fatally wounded by three gunshots through a bathroom door after a shouting match with Pistorius.

Since the tragedy happened, numerous of Pistorius' sponsors have dropped him from their books. On Tuesday, Clarins Group, which owns Thierry Mugler Perfumes, said it would withdraw all advertising featuring the Olympian. A cologne line with the company, called A*Men, bears his image.