Reeva's Steenkamp's mom: Pistorius never slept with my daughter

Neal Colgrass

Newser staff

Reeva Steenkamp's parents, June and Barry, arrive at the High Court for the final day of the sentencing of Oscar Pistorius during his ongoing murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa, on Oct. 21.

(NEWSER) – Reeva Steenkamp's mother says the 29-year-old South African model "was scared to take the relationship to the next level" with Oscar Pistorius, so she never slept with the man who eventually killed her, the Sunday Times reports via the New York Daily News and the BBC. In the memoir Reeva: A Mother's Story, June Steenkamp says Pistorius and Steenkamp were together for several nights but never went all the way. "She had confided to me that she hadn't slept with him," says June, whose book is being serialized by the Times and is out Nov. 6.

"There's no doubt in our minds that she decided to leave Oscar that night," says June. She adds that "something went went horribly wrong, something upset her so terribly that she hid behind a locked door with two mobile phones," the Independent reports. According to June, a jealous, "trigger-happy" Pistorius shot her daughter and fired three more bullets so she "couldn't tell the world what really happened." June goes on to describe the athlete as "pathetic," "moody," "shifty," and "arrogant." Thursday.

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