Admitted killer calls Pistorius family ‘liars’

Self-confessed killer Mikey Schultz denied mouthing "fuck you" to Oscar Pistorius’s sister Aimee as a threat while inside the courtroom.

“That did not happen. The Pistorius family are all liars,” he said as the athlete’s sentencing procedures were adjourned in Pretoria.

“They [are] the victims once again. The Pistorius family are clearly a bunch of liars along with Oscar.”

Schultz is the self-confessed killer of a local mining magnate who escaped jail through a plea bargain with the state

Businessman Brett Kebble was shot dead in September 2005 in an “assisted suicide” carried out by Schultz, Faizel Smith, and Nigel McGurk.

When court adjourned, Aimee Pistorius was crying. Her brother Carl comforted her as she wiped away tears.

Carl Pistorius allegedly told reporters that the former boxer, who came in a few minutes before the case adjourned for lunch, mouthed “fuck you” to his sister.

Speaking outside court, Schultz said he was in court to support the family of Reeva Steenkamp, the law graduate girlfriend Oscar Pistorius shot dead in his Pretoria home on 14 February 2013.

“I did not threaten anybody in court. I came in, I had a seat, I don’t know where the allegations come from — they can go back and look at the video footage,” he said.

When asked why he thought Aimee Pistorius was crying, he said maybe it was because “she realised her brother was going to jail”.

Schultz left the court with former soccer star Marc Batchelor, a well-known face at the trial and whose legs he claims Pistorius threatened to break, and Jared Mortimer, who Pistorius recently had an altercation with at a nightclub.

A security official said no complaints had been received from the Pistorius family.

On September 12, Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide (manslaughter) for the Valentine’s Day 2013, shooting of Steenkamp.

The court found him not guilty of murdering her.

Pistorius shot Steenkamp through the locked door of the toilet, apparently thinking she was an intruder about to emerge and attack him. She was hit in the hip, arm, and head.

Pistorius was also found guilty of firing a pistol under a table at Tasha’s restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013.

He was found not guilty of shooting through the open sunroof of a car in Modderfontein on 30 September 2012, and of illegal possession of ammunition.

Meanwhile, Steenkamp’s cousin has told Oscar Pistorius’ sentencing hearing that the athlete must “pay for what he’s done” and that she did not believe the sincerity of his courtroom apology.

Kim Martin, while giving testimony on the impact of Ms Steenkamp’s death on her family, said they were “not seeking revenge” for the fatal shooting, but that Pistorius needs “sufficient punishment”.