June and Barry Steenkamp paid tribute to their daughter on what would have been her 40th birthday on Saturday. Reeva Steenkamp was born on August 19, 1983 and was shot dead by her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius.
"#40 heavenly birthday. We We celebrate and commemorate what would have been Reeva’s 40th birthday today. Thank you for all the messages of love and support. #Gonebutnotforgotten," the parents wrote in a post on the Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp Foundation Facebook page.
At the time of Steenkamp’s death, the paralympian claimed that he thought Steenkamp was an intruder in their Pretoria home on February 14, 2013.
She was cremated at Port Elizabeth's Victoria Park crematorium on February 19.
Meanwhile, Pistorius, has taken his fight for freedom to the Constitutional Court. Pistorius had approached the court to clear up the confusion around his sentence and parole.
According to Pistorius's lawyer, Conrad Dormehl, the application seeks to have the Constitutional Court declare that the order given by the Supreme Court of Appeal in November 2017 be antedated to July 6, 2016 and resultantly that Oscar is eligible to be considered for parole.
"The practical effect is that the sentence would be deemed, in contradiction to the intention of the 2017 order, to have commenced on November 24, 2017, such that Oscar would only be released on April 16, 2031, effectively serving a sentence of 16 years and four months as opposed to the 15 years to which he was sentenced," he said.
Pistorius hopes that his latest bid will see him eligible for parole in August next year.
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