Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide after 'unintentionally' killing former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day of 2013. The sufferance of Reeva's family from the incident delivers emotional sides and disappointments on separate interviews.
Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, looks forward to talk to Oscar even on the slightest possible chance. He believes it wouldn't be easy but it's far better than having no communation at all.
"Before I forgive, forgive like any forgiveness, I want to talk to him first," Barry spoke to BBC, as reported by Independent UK. "It won't be anything nice or anything like that, but I'd like to sit down and talk to him. And I'm sure that will come about."
June Steenkamp, Barry's second wife and mother of Reeva, meanwhile, added that forgiving wouldn't be easy, but they believe it could help them somehow. In addition, she justified during the interview that she felt disappointed with the court's verdict, that imprisons Oscar for 15 years of life sentencing. "Because you want that for Reeva, justice for her. She died a horrible death. A horrible, painful, terrible death. And she suffered, you know? And he shot through the door. And I can't believe that they believe it was an accident," she dignified.
"I wanted the truth, I don't think we got the truth," she ended. "That's the whole point. We did not get the truth."
Previously, Adam Steenkamp, Reeva's brother, thinks that the trial had been a 'grotesque pantomime', when he spoke to Daily Mail on Sunday.
"In my heart I know he has got away with it. He has got away with murder," he said as he expounds the unreasonable decision made by court. He, further, stated that the court must have found Pistorius guilty of intentionally killing her sister, considering the fact of the rounds of gunfires.
"I don't understand the logic of acquitting someone of murder who fires four rounds into a very small toilet cubicle. It is not the action of someone not intending to kill."
Adam admitted that he wanted to do something about the court's decision but for him, it couldn't do anything as he decided to stay calm and accept the judge's vedict.
"All I want to do is to go out there and scream and shout at the world. You want to fight against something to make things right. But your head says that is not the way to go about it, that is not going to change anything. That would be reciprocating, fuelling a circle of terrible violence. It wouldn't make things any better."
When he was asked if he has something to tell Pistorius, he would say: 'What happened? How on earth could you have such a failing, and a capacity to do something like this?"
"There can only be two reasons: absolute intent or a bad mistake. It is very hard to speak your mind when there is a judge up there - and the judge is there for a reason."
"I wouldn't argue that the law hasn't been applied but maybe the law is out of touch with reality, especially in that country."
On Friday, September 12, Judge Thokozile Matilde Masipa gave the amputated Paralympian the verdict of guilty for culpable homicide, which sends him behind bars for 15 years, at North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria .
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