Reeva Steenkamp Foundation issues statement follow...

Reeva Steenkamp Foundation issues statement following Oscar Pistorius release

**The late Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius**

The Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp Foundation, on behalf of her mother, June Steenkamp, has issued a statement following the release from jail of Oscar Pistorius yesterday.

Pistorius was released from jail on parole and “is now at home”, authorities said, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world.

Having served more than half his sentence, the 37-year-old double-amputee was quietly whisked away from the Atteridgeville Prison on the outskirts of the capital Pretoria, avoiding the hordes of media gathered outside.

Pistorius has been restricted to staying within the Pretoria district of Waterkloof, where his uncle lives, although precise information on his whereabouts has not been confirmed.

Known worldwide as “Blade Runner” for his carbon-fibre prosthetics, Pistorius will not be allowed to speak to the media as a condition of his parole.

Prison authorities had previously warned the press that there would be no opportunity to photograph or speak to him and provided little detail about the plans for his release, citing “security” concerns.

Pistorius killed Steenkamp, a model and law graduate who was 29 years old at the time, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, firing four times through the bathroom door of his ultra-secure Pretoria house.

The Steenkamp family established the Reeva Steenkamp Foundation in 2015 to campaign against violence against women. – The South African