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Oscar still waiting to meet Reeva's parents nine years after he killed her

The correctional services department said on Monday Oscar Pistorius remains in an Eastern Cape facility waiting to meet the Steenkamps.

Former paralympian Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on this day nine years ago
Former paralympian Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on this day nine years ago
Image: Reuters

The victim-offender dialogue between former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius and the family of Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend who he killed on Valentine's Day nine years ago, is yet to happen.

The correctional services department said on Monday Pistorius remained in an Eastern Cape facility waiting to meet the Steenkamps.

“We are still busy with preparations, as there are a number of processes involved before the inmate and victims can directly engage,” said department of correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo.

Pistorius has been in the Eastern Cape for the past three months in preparation for the meeting as he had qualified to apply for parole.

The Steenkamps lost their only child, Reeva, on Valentine’s Day in 2013. She was dating Pistorius and had stayed overnight at his upmarket Waterkloof home when, in the early hours of the morning, he shot her through a locked bathroom door.

He claimed to have acted in the mistaken belief that she was an intruder and he was protecting her. The state alleged he shot her during a violent argument in which Steenkamp locked herself away with her phone.

Pistorius was initially found guilty of culpable homicide in 2014.

In 2015, however, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the culpable homicide verdict and convicted him of murder and sentenced him to 13 years and five months in prison.

He was serving his time in Atteridgeville prison in Pretoria.

TimesLIVE


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