South Africa’s Paralympic sprint star Oscar Pistorius has launched a bid to negotiate an out-of-court deal to pay damages to the parents of his lover whom he killed on Valentine’s Day, a local newspaper said on Tuesday.
Lawyers for Pistorius, who goes on trial in March on murder charges for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp, are mulling a settlement for loss of income and emotional stress, The Times reported.
They want the matter settled before trial opens on March 3 next year.
The paper said Pistorius’s lawyer Kenny Oldwage had confirmed that they were in discussions with the Steenkamp family.
Steenkamp and her half-brother had financially supported their parents, who are pensioners. The support had included paying rent for their house in the southern coastal city of Port Elizabeth.