“I don’t want to go back to jail, I don’t want to waste my life sitting there”.
In his first TV interview since the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius has said he believes that Reeva would not want him to go back to prison.
Oscar, a former Paralympian and Olympian, said that if he was to “have the opportunity of redemption” he would like to help “the less fortunate”.
He went on to say that he likes to think that “if Reeva could look down upon me that she would want me to live that life”.
According to The Telegraph, the hour-long programme will air this Friday at 9pm on ITV with Mark Williams-Thomas, a former detective turned TV presenter, conducting the interview.
In December 2015, his manslaughter charge for Reeva’s death was changed to murder and on July 6th, he will be sentenced.
He previously served 12 months of a five-year sentence for manslaughter and since his release, he has been under house arrest residing at his uncle’s home in Pretoria, South Africa.
Twenty-nine-year-old Oscar also spoke of the events that unfolded the night Reeva died, maintaining that he thought he was protecting her.
“I need to get between this intruder and Reeva. And I need to approach this person”.
He spoke of how he heard noise in the bathroom and presuming it was the intruder, as he had told Reeva to hide on the bedroom floor, he shot at the door four times.
“And all of a sudden I hear a noise, at the toilet. I presumed it was the toilet door opening and before I knew it I’d fired four shots”.
Prosecutors in South Africa have dismissed his account of the night as fabrication and they believe that he murdered Reeva after they had a row over an ex-boyfriend of hers.
