keeps haunting his sleep too!
The mother of Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend,Reeva Steenkamphas spoken of
her personal "hell" during the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, who
shot and killed her daughter on Valentine's Day last year.
The 67-year-old mother, who had never met Pistorius before the trial,
has sat for weeks watching as the prosecution's attempts to determine
whether the athlete shot his model girlfriend four times through a
locked bathroom door was deliberate or he truly mistook her for an
intruder.
June Steenkamp said she has become "obsessed" with watching the
athlete as she tries to deduce whether the visible distress of the man
she says has gone from a "hero" to "devil" is genuine or is just an
act.
<<"I'm obsessed with looking at him, it's just instinctive, I can't
explain it," she said. "I keep thinking: 'Let me see how he's taking
this."
An emotional Pistorius has been seen shaking, vomiting and crying
uncontrollably in court, while Ms Steenkamp has sat listening to
harrowing details from the night her daughter died.
<<"He has been very dramatic, the vomiting and crying," Ms Steenkamp
said. "I think he's just about keeping himself together. I don't know
whether he's acting."
She told The Mirror recently how difficult it has been to attend the
trial and "face up to what is going on" after her "wonderful,
beautiful daughter" was killed.
Ms Steenkamp insisted: "I don't care what happens to Oscar, I don't
even care if he goes free. All I know is that he has to stand up to
what he's done and - if he has to - pay for it."
Despite the Olympic Champion's claims that he shot his girlfriend by
mistake, prosecutors argue he intentionally shot and killed the
29-year old model following a domestic dispute.
There are no juries at trials in South Africa and Pistorius's fate
will ultimately be decided by Judge Masipa who will be assisted by two
assessors.
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