The sister of Reeva Steenkamp, the model who was killed by Oscar Pistorius, has shared a three-word warning to the Paralympic athlete's new girlfriend.
The South African Paralympian, known as the "blade runner," was convicted of murdering his partner on Valentine's Day 2013.
Pistorius claimed he mistook the 29-year-old for an intruder and fired four shots through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home.
Although a judge initially convicted him of manslaughter, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the verdict in 2017, convicting him of murder.
The 38-year-old was released on parole in January this year after serving half of his 13-year sentence.
Since then, it was reported that the double-amputee sprinter was in a relationship with Rita Greyling, a 33-year-old business consultant.
The news has shocked many people, including Steenkamp's sister, Simone, who slammed the athlete for not only rebuilding his life but also dating a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her murdered sister.
"Is she nuts?" Simone questioned, adding, ”I am just looking at this woman’s photographs and I have goosebumps and shivers going down my spine at this moment. What shocks me is that she looks so much like my Reeva," cited by The Mirror.
"She is the same build, the same face and hair, even the same eyes. Is he that sick that he wanted to find a lookalike?" she added.
Simone questioned: “I have to ask myself that having killed Reeva did he want to replace her with another? I also have to ask myself how a woman can close her eyes at night and go to sleep with a man she knows fired four bullets that mutilate flesh into a woman he says he loved.
“Those bullets were Black Talon bullets that are illegal to even use on animals but he put one bullet in my Reeva’s head and three more into her body that did terrible things. How can you cuddle up to a man that you know has that trigger lurking inside him?" she blasted.
The grieving sister said Pistorius has "no remorse" for what he did to his ex-girlfriend, adding: "Reeva found Oscar totally charming to start with for the first three months and no doubt the same as this woman does but then he changes and becomes more controlling."
Simone said Greyling must know that a judge found Pistorius "guilty of murder" which means he's "capable of doing that to a woman".
She then offered a harrowing warning to the new girlfriend, advising her to "sleep with one eye open" as he has "the potential" to kill again.
While the sister acknowledged the challenges Pistorius faced in his childhood, including the amputation of his legs and the loss of his mother, she remains wary of his potential for violence.
“I know as part of his parole he has to go to anger management classes and gender-based violence classes but as far as I am concerned it is always somewhere there inside him. I am just so shocked he has chosen a woman that looks so like my Reeva. I can’t help thinking that having got rid of one Reeva he has gone out and got another” she concluded.
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