For six
terrible months, Adam Steenkamp has been forced to watch, wait and pray
as the trial of the man who killed his sister ground to its agonising
conclusion.
Yet
the verdict that Oscar Pistorius was guilty of culpable homicide – the
equivalent of manslaughter – has brought no relief to his distress.
Today,
in exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Adam says his whole
family has been left heartbroken and betrayed by the South African
court.
He
brands Pistorius an outright killer who should have been found guilty
of deliberate murder after blasting gunshots through the door of the
toilet where his girlfriend Reeva was cowering.
And he condemns the athlete’s courtroom histrionics as a ‘grotesque pantomime’.
‘In
my heart I know he has got away with it. He has got away with murder,’
says Adam, who is now based in Britain with his wife and children.
‘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.’
The life of his sister had been taken, he said, and Pistorius was responsible.
Speaking
from his home in Suffolk, Adam, a 39-year-old IT consultant, said he
was struggling to contain his emotions in the face of such trauma.
‘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.’
Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide after the judge found he killed his girlfriend by mistake
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