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By Citizen Reporter

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Pink support for Steenkamp family

Sporting pink bling, Caroline Trummer on Thursday arrived at the High Court in Pretoria on a Harley Davidson to show her support for the family of Reeva Steenkamp.


Judgment in paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s trial for Steenkamp’s alleged murder was being handed down by Judge Thokozile Masipa at the court.

“Judgment day has arrived, you reap what you sow. Oscar… you can actually stop acting now,” a poster carried by the Johannesburg woman who was sporting pink gloves and matching feather leg warmers, said.

She parked her pink motorcycle, which had an American flag sticking out, and a pink rose displayed on the handle bars, outside the court.

A toy skeleton and a miniature black coffin could be seen at the back of the bike.

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“We are here to support Reeva Steenkamp’s family. I’m happy if he spends at least seven to eight years in prison. I’m following him since he shot [her]… on Valentines Day,” said Trummer, who also wore an American flag bandana.

She said a gun by itself was not dangerous, and it was the people who brandishing it that were dangerous.

Trummer was accompanied by two others bikers.

Masipa began handing down judgment at around 9:30am

She was flanked by her two assessors, Themba Mazibuko and Janette Henzen-du Toit.

Pistorius, 27, said he thought an intruder was behind the door of the toilet in his Pretoria home when he shot through it. He fired four times, killing Steenkamp on February 14, 2013.

The State says the murder was premeditated.

Pistorius pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, and to three firearm-related charges.

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