A bloodied cricket bat has
been found at the home of Blade Runner, local sources say.
Police are working on
theories that the bat could have been used by Oscar Pistorius to attack Reeva
Steenkamp before shooting her dead, to break down the door of the bathroom
where she was hiding, or even by the late model to defend herself, reported
City Press in South Africa.
Meanwhile his best friend
has told how he received a phone call moments after Reeva Steenkamp had been
shot dead and a distraught Pistorius later crying ‘My baba, I’ve killed my
baba. God take me away.’
Before the Paralympic
medallist called the emergency services he phoned Justin Divaris, 27, at 3.55am
to tell him what had happened.
‘I said to him, “What are
you talking about?” He then repeated himself – “There has been a terrible
accident, I shot Reeva”,’ he told the Sunday People.
By the time the
businessman had rushed to the athlete's luxury Pretoria home it had already
been sealed off by police, but Mr Divaris described seeing the model 'covered
in blankets and towels'.
Members of both families
have spoken out today as Pistorius’s father Henke 59, said he had ‘zero doubt’
the fatal shooting was a mistake saying his son had ‘acted on instinct’.
In an emotional interview
with The Mail on Sunday, Barry Steenkamp said he was struggling ‘to find some
reason why this happened to our lovely daughter’.
Pistorius broke down in
tears in court when he was formally charged with Reeva Steenkamp’s premeditated
murder and Mr Steenkamp said: ‘He must be going through things that we don’t
know about. There is no hatred in our hearts.’
The athlete's father Henke
Pistorius told the Sunday Telegraph a sportsman's 'instinct' was behind the
tragedy, and said the family has pledged to do whatever it takes to clear
Oscar's name.
Ms Steenkamp appeared on a TV programme, Tropika Island of Treasure, in South Africa last night, which sees celebrities paired with contestants competing for a cash prize.
Executive producer Samantha Moon claimed the programme had the backing of Reeva’s family. She said: ‘This is how they want to remember her.’
Reeva’s funeral will be on Tuesday, the same day Pistorius is due in court where it is understood lawyers will say the shooting was a tragic accident.
Further details of the
events at Pistorius’ Pretoria mansion in the early hours of Valentine’s Day
have come to light as is was unveiled that he tried to give Miss Steenkamp the
kiss of life.
After Oscar Pistorius
carried his girlfriend’s blood-soaked body from the bathroom where she was
shot, he tried to revive her, sources close to the investigation told the Sun.
‘There was a great deal of
blood and they were convinced Reeva was still alive at that point when
Pistorius was giving her the kiss of life, but she died soon after,’ a South
African source said last night.
Pistorius was allegedly
trying to save her with the kiss of life when a security guard and neighbour
arrived following the noise of the gunshots, before she died in his arms
moments later.
It has been reported she
was hit four times by bullets fired through the door of a bathroom. Pistorius,
26, a keen marksman, owned a pistol and machine gun.
Sources told how he
carried his dying girlfriend from the bathroom, her blood splattering the
staircase, as he desperately tried to revive her.
The pair had been called
South Africa’s ‘golden couple’, and the arrest of Pistorius – who in London
last year became the first man to compete at both an Olympics and Paralympics –
was met with disbelief.
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