Reeva dad guilt trip on Blade

Reeva dad guilt trip on Blade, The father of slain South African model Reeva Steenkamp said Oscar Pistorius will have to live with his conscience if he is lying about how he shot his lover.

Olympic athlete Pistorius, who runs on prosthetic blades, claimed during a bail hearing last week that he gunned down Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day after mistaking her for an intruder.

“There are only two people who really know what happened, and that’s Oscar Pistorius and the Lord,” the victim’s dad, Barry Steenkamp, told South Africa’s Beeld newspaper. “It doesn’t matter how much money he has and how good his legal team is, he will have to live with his conscience if he allows his legal team to tell lies on his behalf.  “But if he is telling the truth, then maybe I can forgive him one day. If it didn’t happen the way he said it did, he must suffer, and he will suffer .


The beauty’s mother, who was said to be too distraught to even follow Pistorius’ court hearings, said she “cried out all my tears.”

“I just want to finish mourning my daughter. I will have to get used to life without her,” June Steenkamp told the paper.

Pistorius’ family sent them flowers and a card, she said: “Yes, but what does it mean? Nothing.”

The Olympian was staying in the Pretoria home of uncle Arnold Pistorius after being freed on bail Friday. He is required to check in with police tomorrow as a condition of his release. Oscar is also barred from owning guns, drinking or returning to the luxury home in Pretoria where he shot Steenkamp.

“This constitutes a moment of relief under these otherwise very grave circumstances,” Arnold Pistorius said in a statement. “This is only the beginning of a long road to prove that, as we know, Oscar never intended to harm Reeva, let alone cause her death.”

Local police told Steenkamp’s distraught family that Pistorius crushed her skull with a cricket bat before shooting her dead, the Daily Mail of Britain reported on its Web site.

Relatives have said her body suffered horrific injuries from the beating, according to the paper.

Prosecutors say Oscar killed Steenkamp, a reality-TV star and law-school grad, as she cowered in the bathroom after an argument.

The case’s lead detective withered under cross-examination and was booted off the investigation the next day over existing charges that he drunkenly opened fire on a taxi carrying seven people in 2011.