Reeva Steenkamp's Mother Says Her Daughter Had Never Had Sex With Oscar Pistorius

Reeva Steenkamp never had sex with her killer and boyfriend Oscar Pistorius, her mother claims.

The 29-year-old model shared a bed with the Blade Runner but 'was scared to take the relationship to that level', according to June Steenkamp's newly-released memoir.

'She wouldn't want to sleep with Oscar if she wasn't sure,' she said in an interview with The Times Magazine, adding that Reeva planned to end the relationship the night she was killed.

'I believe their relationship was coming to an end,' she revealed. 'In her heart of hearts, she didn't think it was making either of them happy.'

In her book, titled Reeva: A Mother's Story, Mrs Steenkamp describes Pistorius as a 'pathetic figure'.

She writes: 'Her clothes were packed. There is no doubt in our minds: she had decided to leave Oscar, 27, that night.

'It was Reeva's bad luck that she met him, because sooner or later he would have killed someone. I do believe that.'

In an agonising seven-month trial, the grieving parents watched Pistorius tell the court he and Reeva were planning a life together.

However, Mrs Steenkamp maintains her daughter had 'nagging doubts about their compatibility'.

June and her husband Barry said justice for their daughter Reeva has not been served as the 'Blade Runner' could be out in 10 months.

Mrs Steenkamp said she did not believe the athlete's story, describing him as 'vague, evasive and shifty' after he claimed he shot Reeva thinking she was an intruder.

The couple are both are haunted by a recurring image of Reeva, terrified and alone in the small toilet cubicle, pleading for her life or screaming in agony once she had been shot. 

An extract from Mrs Steenkamp's book focuses on the athlete's public apology during the televised trial.

'It was an extraordinary moment. You could cut the atmosphere in the courtroom with a knife: silence, but for the sound of journalists tapping on their screens. It put me in an awkward position.

'Why decide to say sorry to me in a televised trial in front of the whole world? I was unmoved by his apology. I felt if I appeared to be sorry for him at this stage of his trial on the charge of premeditated murder, it would in the eyes of others lessen the awfulness of what he had done.

'He was in the box trying to save his own skin after he had killed my daughter and I was sitting in that courtroom wanting to hear the factual truth.'

The five-year sentence given to the double amputee athlete has been criticised by some as too lenient.

But Miss Steenkamp's parents told ITV's Good Morning Britain they accepted the sentence and 'don't want revenge'.

They said their daughter's death in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year remained shrouded in mystery, and 'only Oscar knows' the truth.

Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled the state had failed to prove Pistorius knew it was Reeva when he opened fire through the locked toilet door of his apartment in Pretoria.

Throughout the trial, he said he mistook his girlfriend of three months for an intruder.

'He said pulling the trigger was 'an accident'. What? Four times an accident?' Mrs Steenkamp said in her book.

'He said Reeva did not scream, but she would definitely have screamed. I know my daughter and she was very vocal.'

Pistorius, who the court heard has no income and no property after selling it during the trial, was driven away in a police van with barred windows after his sentencing on Tuesday.

He is expected to be held in the hospital section of a prison in Pretoria.

Mrs Steenkamp's book is to be published on November 6.