Just out of prison after serving a year for a lesser charge of culpable homicide in regards to the crime, Pistorius maintains he didn’t commit the act intentionally and doesn’t want to further jail time.
‘I don’t want to go back to jail. I don’t want to have to waste my life sitting there,’ he said to British station ITV ahead of his first television interview, which will be screened on Friday.
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‘If I was afforded the opportunity of redemption, I would like to help the less fortunate,’ he said. ‘I would like to believe that if Reeva could look down upon me that she would want me to live that life.’
‘Reeva was a fantastic person, but if people believe that I took her life intentionally, which has not been found, then it’s a very sad thing,’ he said.
‘I did take Reeva’s life and I have to live with that. ‘I can smell the blood. I can feel the warmness of it on my hands.’
With his sentence expected to be handed down by Pretoria High Court on July 6, the former athlete spoke of his regrets at the incident’s occurrence.
‘I understand the pain people feel, that loved her and miss her. I feel that same pain. I feel that same hate for myself. ‘I look back and I think, I always think — how did this possibly happen?’ he said.
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