In the early morning of Thursday, 14th February 2013, Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius at his Pretoria home.
The athlete - who shot Reeva four times through a locked bathroom door - later confessed to shooting her, but said that he mistook her for an intruder.
He said: “I felt a sense of terror rushing over me. There are no burglar bars across the bathroom window and I knew that contractors who worked at my house had left ladders outside. Although I did not have my prosthetic legs on I have mobility on my stumps. I believed that someone had entered my house.
“I was too scared to switch a light on. I grabbed my 9mm pistol from underneath my bed. On my way to the bathroom I screamed … for him/them to get out of my house and for Reeva to phone the police. It was pitch dark in the bedroom and I thought Reeva was in bed.”
Oscar grabbed his cricket bat to break down the toilet door, and police found him sitting with Reeva’s body when they arrived at the property a short while later.
However new evidence has been uncovered, which suggests that Oscar and Reeve were involved in a violent struggle shortly before her untimely death.
Writing in their book, Oscar vs The Truth, the forensic investigators revealed that they found that Reeva’s gunshot wounds did NOT match the top she was found dead in.
Which was, as new CCTV footage evidence has now revealed, was the same top that Reeva was wearing when she drove up to Oscar’s home that night.
Thomas Mollet explained: "Reeva could not have been wearing the black vest she was wearing when Oscar brought her downstairs from the bathroom after the shooting.
“It can only have been put on afterwards.”
He continued: “We can’t say when or why he decided to put it on her, we can only say it was certainly not worn at the time she died.
"There is absolutely no sign of any hole in the vest resulting from the bullet wound to her hip – and the vest is a long one.
"There is no sign of the bullet that struck her chest. And there is very little blood on the vest and it would have been really soaked with blood if she’d been wearing it at the time of the shooting."
He alleges that Oscar had ripped Reeva’s vest from her in a violent struggle, causing her to flee into the bathroom whilst naked from the waist up.
The torn handle of the cricket bat used to bash open the door, he added, further corroborates the idea that there was a vicious altercation between the model and the paralympian.
He said: "If you look at the scene, the chaos, the evidence in totality, the damage to the doors, and the unaccounted for injuries on Reeva’s body and link all that to what the neighbours heard…
“You can only conclude that the last minutes of her life were absolute hell.”
Mollet also revealed that police found a stash of black bin bags and tape next to Reeva’s body.
Oscar claimed that he had used the bags to stem the flow of Reeva’s blood, but Mollet insisted that this is “illogical”; black bags can not stem blood flow as they are not absorbent.
Oscar Pistorius's conviction was upgraded to murder in 2015, after an appeal by the prosecution.
His sentence is due to be upgraded in June.
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