LAWYERS FOR FORMER Olympian Oscar Pistorius have been negotiating an out-of court settlement for nearly six months with representatives of the parents of slain girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, which a legal expert says could be raised by prosecutors in the athlete’s murder trial.
Lawyers for both sides said today the negotiations are continuing and declined to comment on any details of a possible settlement, which media reports say could see the double-amputee runner pay in the region of $275,000 to Steenkamp’s family.
Steenkamp lawyer Dup de Bruyn says discussions started around August, when he first told The Associated Press that the parties were talking. Brian Webber, a lawyer for Pistorius, says “clearly one would like to reach a settlement.”
Pistorius’ murder trial is due to start on 3 March.
Typical celebrity thing to do, try buy your way out of trouble! The parents would be some idiots to accept money over justice for their daughter
Id cut the legs from under him
I bet he’d stump up the cash from somewhere though
Never ceases to amaze me how celebrities can get away with murder; literally get away with murder.
If any of us done what he did, we would get life.
Sad.Her parents are skint.
Fret