Reeva’s cousin called as witness
The State called Reeva Steenkamp's cousin Kim Martin to testify in the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday in the sentencing procedures of Oscar Pistorius.
FILE PICTURE: Family members of Reeva Steenkamp react as they listen to the verdict of South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius during his murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa, 12 September 2014. Judge Thokozile Masipa found South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius not guilty of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 but guilty of calpable homicide. EPA/SIPHIWE SIBEKO/POOL
“We are a very small family, our fathers are brothers,” Martin said after she was sworn in.
On September 12, Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide on for the Valentines Day 2013, shooting of his girlfriend Steenkamp in his Pretoria townhouse. The court found him not guilty of murdering Steenkamp.
Pistorius shot Steenkamp through the locked door of the toilet, apparently thinking she was an intruder about to emerge and attack him. She was hit in the hip, arm, and head.
Pistorius was found guilty of firing a pistol under a table at Tasha’s restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013 and not guilty of shooting through the open sunroof of a car in Modderfontein on September 30, 2012.
– Sapa
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