The parents of the model shot dead by Oscar Pistorius say they do ‘not feel that justice has been done’ but insisted they ‘have to accept’ the sentence imposed by the judge.
Pistorius, 27, known as the Blade Runner, was yesterday jailed for five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29, but could be out of prison in just 10 months.
The sentence has been criticised by some as too lenient and sparked calls for it to be increased.
Miss Steenkamp’s parents told ITV’s Good Morning Britain they accepted the sentence and ‘don’t want revenge’ or for the double-amputee to ‘suffer with his disabilities’ while prison.
But they said their daughter’s death in the early hours of Valentine’s Day last year remained shrouded in mystery, adding that ‘only Oscar knows’ the truth.
Miss Steenkamp’s mother June told the programme: ‘I think the law must take its course, we have to accept what has happened.
‘If there is an appeal, well, there is an appeal. There is nothing we can change about that. But it will be difficult to go on even further, again.
‘We may not feel that justice has been done, but we have just got to accept what the judge decided.
‘That’s the law, although it could have been completely different if her decision was different.
‘Not everyone is entirely happy. But … the facts that she had before her maybe weren’t enough. But we have to live.’
Mrs Steenkamp said the family had been ‘disappointed in her (the judge’s) judgment’, but felt the judge was left with few options because ‘she only had certain facts before her’.
Mrs Steenkamp said the family are ‘very settled with the sentence’.
She added: ‘He has got to pay for what he has done and it is not that we want vengeance or anything, or for him to suffer with his disabilities, Daily Mail informs.
