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http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2014/10/26/june-steenkamp-says-reeva-wasn-t-having-sex-with-oscar
"I think he may have shot once and then he had to go on and kill her because she would have been able to tell the world what really happened, what he's really like.
"He said pulling the trigger was 'an accident'. What? Four times an accident?" June writes in her book. "He said Reeva did not scream, but she would definitely have screamed. I know my daughter and she was very vocal."
Both June and 71-year-old Barry said they believed their daughter was gradually being ground down by Pistorius's constant demands and moody temperament.
Reeva was unhappy when she arrived at Pistorius's house for the last time. CCTV footage, according to her mother, shows her looking miserable as she approaches the gated estate. Something was brewing. The couple were fighting.
The Steenkamps said they believed the testimony of a neighbour who heard two people arguing from 1.56am, which Judge Thokozile Masipa discounted in her verdict.
"There is no doubt in our minds that something went horribly wrong, something upset her so terribly that she hid behind a locked door with two mobile phones," June writes.
Other facts did not add up, said the Steenkamps. Reeva was shot wearing a sleeveless black top and grey tracksuit shorts, "clothes for a summer's day, not her night clothes".
She was facing the door when the first bullet struck her hip, "probably pleading".
Her mother told The Times she was also troubled by police photographs that showed Reeva's jeans strewn across the bedroom floor, because Reeva was a "neat freak". "She would never leave them on the floor. She was tidy to the extreme."
In the book, Reeva's mother dissects every text, tweet and e-mail in the brief relationship, looking for hidden meaning.
She concludes that it was volatile and unpredictable.
Reeva said Pistorius scared her, and that he picked on her "incessantly".
"Either of them could have received a Valentine's Day message from another admirer that might have sparked a row," says June.
June told Hello! magazine this week that Pistorius's jail term was "the best sentence we could have expected".
(This article has been updated.)
It's so sad that they can say they feel that she was shot in a DV case, but have to be happy with that short sentence because he could have just ended up with house arrest and a few hours community service - or am I reading too much into her comment?