Steenkamp’s cousin heard of killing on radio

Reeva Steenkamp’s cousin sobbed as she told a South African court how she first heard on a car radio that Oscar Pistorius had shot and killed his girlfriend.

Kim Martin told the double-amputee athlete’s sentencing hearing in Pretoria she had “hoped to God” Pistorius was cheating on her cousin, and the woman he had shot was not Reeva.

“They hadn’t confirmed the name, they said [it was] his girlfriend,” Ms Martin recalled.