Reeva Steenkamp Death: Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, had her body made public. Tuesday, when Reeva Steenkamp’s father appeared in court, he pleaded for the pictures to be made public. Reeva Steenkamp’s family asked that images of her dead body be made public as a deterrent to anybody considering using weapons after she was murdered by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius. Judge Thokozile Masipa granted the plea made by Chief Prosecutor Gerrie Nel on behalf of Ms. Steenkamp’s family on Wednesday.
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The ex-Olympic athlete’s murder conviction was upgraded to murder after his initial manslaughter conviction, for which he served 10 months of a five-year sentence. Pistorius walked around North Gauteng High Court on Wednesday without his prosthetic legs as his lawyer Barry Roux tried to prove a double-amputee Olympic athlete is a vulnerable man who deserves leniency when sentenced. Pistorius’ lawyer tried to prove he had no intention of killing his girlfriend and believed she was an intruder when he shot her through a door on Valentine’s Day 2013. Images of Ms. Steenkamp’s fatal wounds, which included a serious head injury, had previously been withheld from the public in order to “protect the integrity of the deceased.”
Barry Steenkamp, the victim’s father, sobbed in court on Tuesday as he described how he and his wife have struggled to exist since his daughter was killed and asked that the photographs be made public. Mr. Steenkamp stated he had only seen “one photo” of his daughter’s dead body, which was displayed in court when Mr. Steenkamp was there two years ago, as a warning to the public about the dangers of guns. During Pistorius’ sentence hearing on Wednesday, Chief Prosecutor Gerrie Nel claimed that “the court should have access to these images.” The court itself should review a few areas of the sentence.
She received four chest shots. That should be taken into account by the court as an aggravating element… The sentence includes it.” We assert that it is time for the public to learn what the accused did and what those bullets accomplished. The defense lawyer, Mr. Roux, has stated that it would not be proper to release the images at this time in the case. He asked the judge, “Do the kids have to watch it?” “What do we hope to achieve?”
Steenkamp’s father has following remark to make:
The defendant’s brother Carl Pistorius, who was present in court, tweeted that the request to provide the photos was “distasteful.” After hearing testimony from both the prosecution and the defense, Judge Masipa in South Africa has the power to reduce the mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison for murder. She will impose a sentence for Pistorius’ part in Reeva Steenkamp’s death on July 6th.
Reeva Steenkamp’s murder scene photos have been made public during the trial of her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with killing her. It’s a pretty horrifying sight to witness. The area of the bathroom where Reeva Steenkamp’s body was found was typically bloody.
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As was already said, many of the forensic pictures that are now publicly accessible were initially used as testimony in court. The restroom where Reeva Steenkamp died received all three shots. The prosecution presented additional violent images in court to bolster their case. They were so graphic and upsetting that when Oscar Pistorius saw them, he felt ill to his stomach. I’m not aware of any public access to these photos of Reeva Steenkamp’s body’s crime scene. If they were leaked or used for financial gain, it would be a brutal betrayal of the Steenkamp family and a tragic violation of the respect that Reeva’s treasured memory deserves.
The Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s gun handling test results demonstrate that he was aware it was prohibited to aim at an unidentified target. In the ongoing murder trial, images from an athlete’s post-mortem examination have been shown in court. Oscar Pistorius knew he was breaking the law when he shot Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door, the jury heard during his murder trial.
Behind The Incident
According to Sean Patrick Rens, a weapon training and licensing officer, the findings of the athlete’s competency test showed that he was aware that firing at an unseen target was prohibited by the law. Before firing a gun, you must “always know your target and what is behind,” according to Pistorius’ competency test. Men are seen jumping over the wall in the late hours of the night. Do you have a gun?” Pistorius declined to respond. He said before you have the right to fire, it has to be “against you, unlawful, and against the person.”
Mr. Rens testified before Pretoria’s High Court, claiming to be aware of Pistorius’ “great enthusiasm and excitement” for firearms. They first connected at a shooting range in the year 2012. He asserted that the athlete had asked him for a handgun and was looking for further weapons. The defendant gave them an invoice for an S&W 500 revolver and an LM6 assault rifle when he appeared in court. The order was canceled because he didn’t have a collector’s license. Pistorius used the incident where he took his handgun to look for an intruder after being frightened by noises at his Pretoria home as an illustration of how he entered “full battle mode.”
Pistorius wrote on Twitter in 2012: “Nothing like coming home to the sound of the washing machine running and going into full battle recon mode in the pantry!!” Barry Roux, the lawyer for Roux, asked Mr. Rens if the Olympic athlete could shoot through a door at head and body height from a distance of two or three meters. All of the photos taken via the bathroom door were positioned at a height of roughly 90 centimeters.
Bennie van Staden, a police crime scene photographer, arrived at the home at 4:50 a.m. on Valentine’s Day of last year and took pictures of Pistorius and his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp before they were both arrested. One of the images obtained at the scene showed blood on Pistorius’s bed’s headboard. The athlete claimed that he broke through the closed bathroom door and discovered Ms. Steenkamp’s body on the floor before bringing it downstairs.
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Given its location on the evidence reel, the state is likely to contest Pistorius’s account of what took place in his home the night before he shot his girlfriend. The Paralympian’s bedroom was captured in a photograph, along with containers of “testis compositum,” a testosterone booster and performance enhancer, lubricant, and needles. The cricket bat the athlete used to open the locked toilet door is also captured in photos shot by Mr. Van Staden, along with images of the toilet bowl and the bathroom floor.
Oscar Pistorius greeted June Steenkamp, the mother of Reeva Steenkamp, by name as he entered the courtroom earlier. She seemed to nod her head in greeting. Her older sister Aimee Pistorius also approached her and engaged in a lengthy conversation with her. Mrs. Steenkamp had complained this month about Pistorius’ refusal to “look her in the eye” at the start of his murder trial. Even though she had told reporters she was ready to forgive him for killing her daughter, she was frightened when he disregarded her.
Before Mr. Van Staden could describe the injuries to her daughter, Mrs. Steenkamp left the courtroom. When a graphic image of Reeva Steenkamp’s body was accidentally displayed on the televisions next to him last week, Pistorius vomited. The 29-year-old model and law graduate was shot in the right hip, elbow, and temple by a 9mm pistol that was loaded with rounds that were intended to “penetrate and then mushroom” upon impact.
At the start of his murder trial, Pistorius claimed he shot Ms. Steenkamp in the head because he thought she was an intruder. The prosecution asserts that his girlfriend was shot and killed in self-defense following a domestic argument. If proven guilty, convicted murderers are almost generally given a life sentence with a minimum term of 25 years in jail.
The inquiry is still being conducted
