‘My dearest child screamed for her life… and her father died of a broken heart’: Reeva Steenkamp’s mother reveals her agony to Oscar Pistorius parole hearing as the Blade Runner killer learns TODAY if he will be freed
The mother of murdered Reeva Steenkamp today told the parole hearing set to grant freedom to Oscar Pistorius that the killer had robbed her of her ‘dearest child and her heartbroken husband'.June Steenkamp said she did not know a single person who believed he did not deliberately shoot her daughter. Blackburn-born Mrs Steenkamp delivered a powerful victim impact statement saying: ‘My dearest child screamed for her life.’Mrs Steenkamp, who was recently widowed, said she believed Reeva’s father Barry died from a broken heart in September after ten years of grief.She was making her final address to her daughter’s killer today and said he had destroyed Reeva’s life and her own as well and sent her husband to his grave without Pistorius giving him the truth, despite his pleas. June Steenk...