Tuesday 8 April 2014

Your Turn Oscar: How and why Reeva Steenkamp was murdered

Oscar Pistorius will on Tuesday give his final account of how and why he killed his Model girlfriend.

The South African amputee athlete had on Monday taken to the witness stand to give his own account, where he apologized to the family of the Model. He sobbed as he did that, but according to reports the lady's family didn't show any signs of being touched by his sobbing but rather his own family.

According to Oscar  "I want to take this opportunity to apologise to Mr and Mrs Steenkamp. There hasn't been a moment since this tragedy
happened that I haven't thought about your family

"I wake up every morning and you're the first people I think of. The first people I pray for. I can’t imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I’ve caused you and your family.

"I was simply trying to protect Reeva. I can promise you that when she went to bed that night she felt loved. I have tried to put my words on paper many times to write to you but no words would ever suffice.' Continue..

He also told the court his struggles since the incident, saying he
wakes up every morning 'smelling blood..and terrified". He
claimed he suffers from panic attacks and takes anti-depressant
medicine.

'I'm scared to sleep. I can smell blood and wake up terrified. I climbed into a cupboard and I phoned my sister to come and sit by me, which she did for a while. I'm just in a complete state of terror. I fall asleep and wake up like that.' He said

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