Reeva's mother, June, who hails from Blackburn, said that time 'hasn't healed' her family's grief
Reeva Steenkamp’s parents want Oscar Pistorius to 'come clean' about the deadly shooting of his girlfriend before he is released from prison.
Before the parole decision was announced, the Steenkamp's lawyer ,Tania Koen said June, who hails from Blackburn, Lancashire, would submit written and oral statements at the hearing to oppose Pistorius’s bid for freedom. “She doesn’t feel that he must be released,” Ms Koen told reporters outside the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre in Pretoria, where Pistorius has been held since 2016 and where the hearing took place on Friday.
“She doesn’t feel that he must be released,” Ms Koen said. A decade after their daughter’s killing, Ms Koen said time “hasn’t healed” the grief for June and Barry. “He’s the killer of their daughter. For them, it’s a life sentence,” Ms Koen said. “For them, it’s 10 missed birthdays, 10 Mother’s Days, 10 Father’s Days, 10 Christmases.”
He was moved to the Atteridgeville prison in 2016 because that facility is better suited to disabled prisoners. Pistorius’s lower legs were amputated when he was a baby because of a congenital condition and he walks with prosthetics.
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