Tonight on 20/20 ` (Sirens blare) We can confirm that there was a shooting incident morning at the home of the well-known Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. At this stage we can confirm that a young woman - a 30-year-old woman - did die on the scene, of gunshot wounds. A 26-year-old man has been arrested, and has been charged with murder. RICK EDWARDS: In the dock, the world's most famous Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius. The victim, his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model about to hit the big time, the latest star of network television. You fall in love with being in love with love - it's just one love everywhere. But was it, as the state alleges, premeditated murder? Or was it, as Oscar Pistorius claims, an innocent but dreadful mistake? Kia ora, I'm Sonya Wilson. Tonight we have a special edition of 20/20. It's a story that's captivated people all over the globe ` Oscar Pistorius, the Blade Runner. The world-famous athlete who somehow shot his girlfriend dead in the early hours of February 14th this year. Tonight we're going to hear from the friends and family of both the victim and the accused. With the help of computer graphics, we will reproduce the crime scene, and we'll hear from the defence's forensic pathologist, who speaks publicly for the first time. So, was there indeed a dark side to the Blade Runner? The BBC's Rick Edwards aims to set aside the gossip and concentrates on the facts to find out what really happened that night in South Africa. (Starting gun fires) (Crowd cheering) Last September I was at the Olympic Stadium in London presenting coverage of the Paralympics. Millions of viewers across the globe watched as Oscar Pistorius won two gold medals, a silver medal and set three world records along the way. He was the poster boy for the Paralympics. It's hard to believe then, that just six months later things have changed so dramatically. The sporting hero is now a murder suspect. Travelling across South Africa, it's hard to understand how a story of modern-day celebrity romance could end in such a way. But it was here in the pitch-dark early morning of St Valentine's Day that this secure, quiet suburban estate was woken by shouts, screams and sobs coming from the house of one of South Africa's most famous sons. Oscar Pistorius has shot his new girlfriend, hitting her at least three times. He says it's an accident, he's mistaken her for a burglar. She's still alive... just. At 3:19 he telephones a neighbour for help. At 3:20 he calls the hospital. He is crying and sobbing. (Siren blares) He carries her downstairs to the ground floor but it's too late. All indications are that she died en route to the bottom, where they laid her body downstairs. She died at or about that point. At 3:30 CCTV cameras record the police and ambulance arriving. At 3:55 Oscar Pistorius calls a friend, Justin Divaris, who'd introduced him to Reeva. We've approached Justin Divaris several times and on each occasion he's declined to take part in our program. However, we have obtained a recording of the only interview he has given with a reporter working for the Sunday People. He was 40 minutes away in Johannesburg, and set off immediately to Pistorius's home near Pretoria. Good morning. I'm Lynne O'Connor. We continue with our breaking news coverage of a shooting in Pretoria. Olympic and Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been taken into custody after he allegedly shot and killed a woman believed to be his girlfriend. At home in Johannesburg, Reeva Steenkamp's housemate Gina Myers receives a phone call. I started screaming, 'Where's Reeva? Where is she? Where is she?' I was screaming because I knew, and she just said, 'G, I need you sit down, there's been accident.' And I said... I just carried on saying 'Where is she?' And then I started getting emotional and then she said, 'G, I'm sorry, there's been an accident.' And she told me she was gone. I started screaming and my dad came running in, my sister was running and my mum came running, and I couldn't talk on the phone, I couldn't function. (Sighs) I know that I never ever want to relive anything like that again because I would never wish that on my worst enemy. It was one of... the worst phone calls I've ever received in my whole life. Coverage of this tragic event has swamped the South African media. The level of interest both national and international in the events of that night and its aftermath is almost unprecedented. It's arguably the biggest story to come out of South Africa since the release of Nelson Mandela more than 20 years ago. I was completely shocked by what happened. And I think that shock began to set in even more throughout the day as a fuller picture began to emerge, because the initial reports that we were hearing - that were coming out - were about the fact that Oscar Pistorius had shot his girlfriend, thinking that she was an intruder. And then the police came out and gave an impromptu press conference outside his home... We've also taken cognisance of the media reports during the course of the morning of an alleged break-in or that the young lady was allegedly mistaken to be a burglar. Obviously, our forensic investigation is still ongoing. We're not sure where this report came from - it definitely didn't come from the South African Police Service. ..and all of a sudden, the picture changed and we began to think, 'Well, maybe that's not the version. Maybe there's more to this. Maybe this isn't a tragedy. Perhaps there was intent. Perhaps there was a crime that was committed here.' If there was intent, what had happened to cause Oscar Pistorius to shoot dead Reeva Steenkamp... ..a former law student whose photogenic looks were rocketing her to stardom? This year she was the big new name in a celebrity reality show set in Jamaica. You literally fall in love with Jamaica. You fall in love with being in love with love - it's just one love everywhere. But I'm going home with sort of a sweet taste in my mouth. Um, I don't any regrets, I don't have any bitterness. I take home with me so many amazing memories and things that are in here and are in here that I'll treasure forever. I think the way that you go out, not just your journey in life, but the way that you go out and you make your exit is so important. You even made an impact in a positive way or a negative way, but just maintain integrity and maintain class and just always be true to yourself. And I'm gonna miss you all so much. I love you very, very much. 1 Reeva lived as part of the family with her best friend, Gina Myers. The two girls were inseparable and were in constant contact. (Giggling) Through the years it was every single night I'd get a message from her, saying, 'Night, my G, I love you.' Every single night. I didn't meet anyone who had a bad word to say about Reeva. Warren Lahoud went out with her for five years and they remained close. She was really loving, she was giving, and that's what I'm gonna really miss. I mean, I can't pick up the phone and say 'Hello' and hear that warm voice of hers and... You know, that's the hardest part of this whole thing. Local celebrity tattooist Pepi Dimevski also knew her from her early days in Johannesburg. I met Reeva in shop about, actually, maybe close to five years ago. So how many tattoos of hers did you do? I did two, two of her tattoos. The first one was a kind of long sentence, something like a poem, on her back. The second one was writing on her ankle, says 'Lioness'. She was a great person. I mean, a woman with such a big character and personality and charisma. She was amazing person. I mean, slowly, slowly she became kind of famous in a... in a... in a model fashion industry, and, yeah, she was exactly the same person. How I say? She was down to earth. Down to earth, but in South African celebrity circles, Reeva Steenkamp was on the rise. She started to receive invites to Johannesburg's round of promotional launches and awards ceremonies. For the paparazzi, blonde model Reeva Steenkamp was a natural target. 2012 was her breakthrough year, when she started to get noticed. She was on the cover of FHM... ..and soon she was on the radar of top-selling celebrity magazine Heat. I should go through a few of the pictures. She was always on the social scene. These are also some great exclusive photos of her playing with some puppies at Puppy Haven, a charity here in South Africa. And this was at her birthday party in August last year. With Reeva, last year her name kept on popping up and she kept on popping up at events and on the red carpet, and then this reality show happened. And then with the Oscar relationship, with him being one of the biggest stars in South Africa, that was when we decided, 'OK, you know, this girl is definitely... She's here now, she's beautiful, she's really lovely, she's a pleasure to work with, she's dating one of the biggest starts in the world,' and that was kind of the moment where we decided, 'Right, it's time to go with her and to follow her career.' Oscar and Reeva - a huge and lucrative new media brand was emerging and Heat magazine wanted to own it. Yeah, that's her and Oscar. That's a rare picture from a, um, from a friend's engagement party. Reporter Sonja Raath was assigned to stick close to Reeva. She was a breath of fresh air, she really was - beautiful, as beautiful on the outside as she was inside. She would always make time for you, no matter what it was. She just... I keep saying, she had such a beautiful soul. But Oscar and Reeva had only started dating in November 2012. It was still early days. They wanted to keep the relationship private for as long as possible, and not do media for as long as possible, because they didn't want the media to taint the relationship. Obviously, the relationship was only a few months old and that was one of the biggest factors as to why they didn't really wanna come out with it as of yet, because it was still new and, um, she really didn't want anything to taint that. Because we were pursuing them for this cover story and they had agreed, we still needed to get a date secured with them for the shoot. To confirm the details of the photo shoot, the Heat team found a date which they could see both Oscar and Reeva on - February 7th, as it turns out, seven days before Reeva was killed. The Sports Awards. This is one of the rare occasions where she walked the red carpet with Oscar. I was adamant that that journalist had to go because they were gonna be there, and to chat with them and to get more from them, to chat to them about the relationship and to secure a date for the photo shoot. And that's practically why we were there and why we interviewed them. She was very happy, she made a huge emphasis on how much she did adore him and admired him and in what high esteem she held him. It was really lovely to see them together. And, I think, a beautiful model on the rise with one of our biggest sporting stars had great potential to be one of the golden couples in SA. I think once they came out with their relationship, which would've been in our exclusive cover with them, it really would've escalated, they would've gotten a lot more attention and it really would've been huge. 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She was getting ready for a meeting and I was getting ready to go to work. Um... and when she left, she told me I was going to be awesome and that she loved me, and then I ran out and gave her a hug and then she left. Later that day, Reeva met up with her ex-boyfriend Warren Lahoud. I saw Reeva on the Tuesday... the 12th of February. Um... she contacted me and we met up for a quick coffee. And that was it. And she seemed fine. Oscar Pistorius telephoned Reeva twice during their catch-up. I said, 'Is everything OK? I mean, he's phoned twice already. Every 20 minutes.' Um... I asked her that question. She said 'There's nothing wrong'. She always told me that she wouldn't be with anybody that she felt unhappy with or, um, she wouldn't allow herself to be with somebody like that. Oscar Pistorius says that in the early hours of Valentine's Day, he and Reeva were asleep in his bedroom. Using plans of the property, we've recreated the scene in daylight to give you an idea of the layout of the bedroom and en suite bathroom. Pistorius says it's crucial to remember that it was the middle of the night and dark. In his version of events, he was unusually on the left-hand side of the bed as we look at it here, because he had a shoulder problem. He and Reeva had swapped sides. We've used the words of his sworn testimony. ACTOR AS PISTORIUS: 'I woke up, went onto the balcony 'to bring the fan in and closed the sliding doors, 'the blinds and the curtains. 'I heard a noise in the bathroom 'and realised that someone was in the bathroom.' Too scared to switch on the lights, he says he didn't put on his prosthetic legs but walked on his stumps towards the noise. 'I grabbed my 9mm pistol from underneath my bed. 'On my way to the bathroom, I screamed the words to the effect 'for him or them to get out of my house 'and for Reeva to phone the police. 'It was pitch dark in the bedroom and I thought Reeva was in bed.' From the bathroom doorway, he says he sees an open window. He again hears noises. They're coming from behind the closed door of the separate toilet. He opens fire with his 9mm pistol. (Gunshots) I fired shots at the toilet door and shouted to Reeva to phone the police. She did not respond and I moved backwards out of the bathroom, keeping my eyes on the bathroom entrance. Everything was pitch dark in the bedroom, and I was still too scared to switch on a light. Reeva was not responding. When I reached the bed, I realised that Reeva was not in bed. That's when it dawned on me that it could've been her who was in the toilet. I returned to the bathroom, calling her name. I tried to open the toilet door but it was locked. I rushed back into the bedroom and opened the sliding door, exiting onto the balcony, and screamed for help. Only at this point, he says, does he turn on the light and put his prosthetic legs on before returning to the bathroom to break down the toilet door with his cricket bat. A prominent specialist forensic pathologist Reggie Perumal was flown in by Oscar Pistorius's defence team to examine all the crime scene evidence and attend the autopsy. She was shot in the region of her right hip. She was shot in the right arm. And she was shot in the head. There was also a shot in one of the fingers of the left hand. So whether there are three shots or four shots, it won't be easy to say at this stage. He was, however, able to confirm one aspect of the defence case - she appeared to have gone to the toilet. Most individuals would have had some urine in the bladder at 3am in the morning. In this case, the bladder was completely empty, we couldn't even get a mill or two for toxicology. That says that in all probability she voluntarily emptied her bladder, because there was no evidence of urine on the scene itself. During the four-day bail hearing the prosecution presented a very different version of events that night, prosecution witnesses' claims there was shouting and screaming coming from the house. The questions are - who was shouting and screaming, and at what time? One witness states that she heard nonstop fighting between 2:00am and 3:00am, and then she heard gunshots. Another witness heard shots, saw lights on and then, 17 minutes later, heard further gunshots. We've also been told that near neighbours, only 50m away, heard female screams, followed by gunshots, followed by more screams. Pistorius's housekeeper, who lives behind the house, didn't hear any screams, apparently because there's a water feature close by which would have drowned out any other noise. The prosecution says Oscar Pistorius got up from the bed, strapped on his prosthetic legs, armed himself and purposefully walked the 7m to the bathroom, where Reeva had locked herself in the toilet. She had apparently taken her mobile phone with her. The prosecution further alleged Pistorius wanted to kill. In a prosecutor's words, 'There's a big argument and you crack, 'you take out a gun and you fire.' (Gunshots) The police investigator called by the prosecution claims Oscar Pistorius was right inside the bathroom with his back to the basins when he started firing. Crucially, he says, he was shooting 1.5m from the toilet door. The four bullets had a downwards trajectory from a normal stance, so, he claims, he must've had his prosthetic legs on. I have been to the scene, but unfortunately one very important aspect of the scene was not there - it was taken away. That is the door. The door is important to us, and we really need to get access to it soonest, because the trajectory of the projectiles through the door will give us a very good idea where the 'shootist' was standing. All this will be tied up with the trajectory on the body of the deceased, together with one bullet or projectile mark on one of the walls. Despite the prosecution's reliance in court on Oscar Pistorius wearing his prosthetic legs, we've been told the new investigating team want to downplay this claim. They don't think they'll be able to prove it and think it should never have been mentioned by the prosecution. The prosecution's main witness was the police investigator Warrant Officer Botha. Much of his testimony was successfully challenged by the defence. First he said that quarrelling had been heard by a witness who was 600 yards away. When people in the court laughed at that, he said that it may have been 300 yards. The witness didn't know whose voices she'd heard and another witness got the number of shots wrong. His assertions about the bullets' trajectory were not backed up by forensic or ballistic evidence. Botha also admitted that he'd worn protective shoes at the crime scene. Botha was taken off the case after it was discovered that he, too, faces criminal charges relating to another shooting. He's now quit the force. We've been told by a senior source that as the police station, while Oscar Pistorius was being interviewed and charged, officers told him that he could be facing a very long time in jail. Pistorius is said to have replied, 'I'll survive. I always win.' JUDGE: I come to the conclusion that the accused has made a case to be released on bail. GALLERY: Yes! The Pistorius family have told us that they categorically deny he said those words to the police. He did get bail, the judge praising his detailed account, on condition that he doesn't return home or leave Pretoria. He's been banned from drinking and has had to pay a �75,000 bond. But the judge did raise five key questions. Why did the accuse not ascertain the whereabouts of his girlfriend as he got out of bed? Why did the accused not seek to verify exactly who was in the toilet? Why did Reeva not scream back from the toilet? Why would you not escape through the bedroom door rather than venture further into danger? And the judge also questioned the explanation for why the couple had swapped sides of the bed that night. 1 Front cover of Time Magazine. Wow. Just very powerful. Oscar Pistorius, the headline, 'Man, Superman, Gunman - 'Oscar Pistorius and South Africa's culture of violence.' The shock is felt everywhere. Sports journalist Graeme Joffe has known Pistorius, man and boy, but believes that, along the way, something's changed. Incredible journey, when I think - I met him for the first time probably ten years ago. It was soon after his mother passed away and just met this incredible, humble kid who had the world at his feet. Amazing kid - just the drive, the positiveness. I was in awe of him. And I thought, 'What an incredible person - a kid that's got this disability, doesn't let it get him down.' It was the real Oscar. And then, sadly, over the years, I think as more fame and success and money came into his life, I saw a very different Oscar. A very different Oscar, surrounded by the trappings of celebrity - the racehorses, the high-performance motors... ..even two white tigers. And the guns. He was building up a collection and had applied to license six specialist firearms. There's no shortage of people who will tell you what a fantastic and inspirational individual Oscar Pistorius is - a truly global icon. But as I travel around South Africa, there are some who question his well-crafted media image - a darker side of the man is starting to emerge. First, the stories of recklessness. Aged 19, he nearly killed himself in a car crash, driving 400 miles through the night to settle what he describes was a blistering row with an ex-girlfriend. He fell asleep at the wheel. He's admitted that he was 'unforgivably stupid'. In February 2009, aged 23, more recklessness. He crashed his speedboat into a submerged pier, smashed his face to bits and was airlifted to hospital. Weeks later, in his BBC Inside Sport interview, he detailed his extensive injuries. Actually, this picture's probably the best one to describe it. Out of all these CAT scans and MRIs and stuff, you can actually see where the doctors have highlighted several here and they've got where I broke my cheekbone here and I broke the floor bone of my eye and here I broke part of my nose. There I broke the bridge off my nose. I had my jaw wired on, and that came off last week, and since then I've been eating steak literally every single day. Next, stories of aggressive behaviour. In September 2009, Pistorius was arrested at a neighbour's party, held in custody and charged with assaulting a girl who had a door slammed in her face. In the end, no action was taken. I told her to get off the property and I was actually on the way to the police station to open a report, and they'd already arrived at my house, so it was a bit of a mass confusion and it ended up just turning completely sour. And, you know, the next morning - I had to spend the night in jail, which I never, ever thought I would have to do... But the word was, on the street, that Oscar Pistorius was attracting trouble. Reeva's tattooist, Pepi Dimevski, had heard the rumours. Everyone hear bad stories about him - not such good stories. The people I bump to or hear from... ..even a friend of mine, Marc Batchelor, the football player, had issues with him. They speak on the phone and Oscar threaten him that he's gonna break his legs. I mean, that's... that's actually ridiculous. Could that be true? Did Oscar Pistorius really say he would break someone's legs? The man he's supposed to have made the phone call to is Marc Batchelor - an ex-professional footballer. He agreed to see me and confirmed that last November there'd been a row over one of Oscar's ex-girlfriends. You mentioned your run-in with Oscar. Can you talk me through exactly what happened? Yeah, my phone rang, and it's Oscar - "What's your effin' problem with me, boy?" So I told him, 'I'm not your boy,' and we had a few words and he started threatening me and telling me how he's gonna eff me up and break my legs and I was basically laughing because - and this is not being disrespectful or rude to anybody - but, I mean, Oscar, he doesn't have any legs. What is he gonna do? I'm double his size. I do a bit of boxing. I'm not scared to take on anybody. But I'll never, ever do that. If I had to do something to Oscar, what am I? I'm a bully. So I actually, like, laughed it off. Then Oscar Pistorius went to the police to say that it was him who'd been threatened by Marc Batchelor. The police interviewed both men but decided the matter should be dropped. The same day I met him, Marc Batchelor was interviewed by police. He says that several other prominent, wealthy South Africans are also helping police with their inquiries into the Pistorius case. In January this year, weeks before Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead, there was a gunshot incident involving Pistorius at a restaurant in Johannesburg. A firearm went off under a table, narrowly missing someone's foot. A friend took the blame. There have been new rumours and hearsay about aspects of this case coming out almost every day - most of them have not been borne out by the evidence that's been made public so far. Reeva Steenkamp did not sustain injuries by being beaten with a cricket bat, she was not pregnant, contrary to what the police first said, there was no testosterone found in the house, and only one gun was found in the house - a 9mm pistol. 1D GRAEME: There were signs - in the last five years, there were incidents that have happened, things that felt like the bubble was about to burst. Who was making these things disappear? F... (Sighs) It's a good question. You know, the allegations of how some of these cases did disappear. They disappeared very quickly, whether it be the media, whether it be on the management side, because no sponsor wants to be involved with somebody who's got something... ..you know, allegations against him of some kind of... ..whether it be verbal or physical abuse. So, at the end of the day, these things did disappear very quickly. And, as I said, no-one wanted to dig deeper into Oscar Pistorius. As I said before, how tough it's been for him with a disability to be able to fight for the right to run with able-bodied athletes. His whole life has been a fight. (Cheering) When Oscar Pistorius spoke out at the Paralympics, criticising a rival who'd beaten him when wearing longer prosthetics, Graeme Joffe felt the athlete had gone too far. The incidence in the Paralympics, for me, was the last straw. I really believe that outburst was after so much was bubbling under and I just felt that it was a case of sour grapes. It just, for me, it didn't come across like the real Oscar - the way that he behaved when he lost at the Paralympic Games. Just because there were one or two stories in the past about Oscar that weren't positive doesn't mean there's something brewing behind the scenes. Maybe there is, but we don't know that. The fact that somebody, you know, dropped an assault charge or that he crashed a boat because he was drunk, like, none of that is proof that this man was capable of shooting somebody and killing them purposefully. I just... I would hate to make a judgement like that. And I think people are... everybody's trying to dig now and they're trying to see, 'Were there signs? Were there signs?' I don't think it's fair to do that. Adam Azzie, who's known Pistorius since their school days, believes that for a top-flight athlete, his behaviour is normal. There have been reports in the press previously about a kind of darker side to Oscar. What did you make of that? I wouldn't say 'darker side'. I think if people want to say it's an aggressive side, I would say, every young man's got an aggressive side to him - no more than you or me. I didn't ever see it as a bad side. I always thought that his aggression was what fuelled his success to be as competitive as he was as an athlete. (Gun cocking, shot firing) Oscar Pistorius's defence rests on fear - fear he says he had for his own safety and Reeva's. Rates of violent crime and murder are high in South Africa. Like Oscar Pistorius, millions protect themselves with guns. South Africans, no matter where they live, no matter what their background, have been subjected to an onslaught of crime for many years, and as a result of which they've taken the need to defend themselves as seriously as they possibly can, given the limitations. Even in a high-security estate, you may not be entirely secure. Some people might feel the need to sleep with, as you put it, a gun under their beds. Reeva Steenkamp also knew how to handle a gun. After one session, she posted on Instagram: The reality of South Africa is that we are a society which has a disproportionately high rate of crime against civilians. And, yeah, you can either live in that society and then take whatever precautions that you possibly can to prevent it happening to you, or live in fear. It's a reality of life in South Africa. We are where we are. Across South Africa, people have fled open residential areas for the sort of gated, high-security estates where Oscar Pistorius lived. So we're just driving around the outside of the Silver Woods compound now. And the most striking thing - from here, anyway - is the height of the perimeter walls and the electrified wire that runs along the top of them. I can't really see anyone getting in there. There's also security guards sort of dotted around the edge. That seems to be true of all of the neighbouring compounds, as well. Silver Woods has a reputation of being as secure as it comes, complete with dogs, patrol cars, a biometric identification entry system and a fully-wired anti-intruder wall. As you can see, we've got a standard electric fence, according to South African rules and laws that you can do, it's maximum voltage. It's got earth loops to prevent anybody tampering with it, it has got an alarm on it and then we've got the beams to protect the fence, as well. You put your finger on here, and it reads your fingerprint, and only the fingerprints loaded onto the system will allow residents to gain access to the estate. It's recording the number plate, it's recording your face and there's some other cameras around recording movement of people coming in and out of the estate. In the last three years, we had four incidents, of which the last one was October 2011... November 2011. And since then, we've put measures in place to try and mitigate that. Protected by the fortress-like security, this was Oscar Pistorius in happier times at home. But there are many stories about his readiness to draw a gun here. He tweeted last November: He told one interviewer he felt most vulnerable when in bed without his prosthetics on. Dexter Azzie, who's known Pistorius from school, stayed at the house one night and saw how twitchy he was about security. It was quite a hot evening, so I woke up to put a fan on, and after bumping it over, it made quite a loud bang, so, I think, within a minute, he ran outside and he didn't have his prosthetic legs on - he was on his stumps - and he had his 9mm in his hand and he asked if everything was alright. And I responded yes, and then he went back into his room. In this country, a lot of people do sleep with their guns under their pillows or beside their beds. So I didn't picture it as irregular in the sense of... in South African context. So that's why I didn't really question him about it. This is Waterkloof - an upmarket suburb of Pretoria. As a condition of his bail, Oscar Pistorius is staying in this house - his Uncle Arnold's house - at least until the start of his trial which is at the beginning of June. I'm gonna see if I can get an answer on the buzzer, if I'm allowed to. Can I just...? Can I...? Please, please, please. The guards have obviously been briefed not to let anyone approach the house or try and get in or speak to anyone. And I think it's best not to push them any further. In South Africa, media coverage of the case has been unrestrained. There will be no jury at Oscar Pistorius's murder trial - a judge alone will pass verdict. The bail hearing has forced the athlete to give his version of events, which is sworn testimony and will therefore be difficult to change if new evidence is presented. As Oscar Pistorius's image is dismantled worldwide and his sponsorships cancelled, he's being forced to sell everything to build up a war chest for the battles ahead. He's selling off all his properties and everything because obviously the legal costs are gonna run into millions of rand. So he's trying to make sure that he has cash available so that he can be able to sort out his attorneys and pay for his legal fees. Oh... The man Oscar Pistorius calls 'Uncle Mike' has taken on the sad task of selling off the racehorses. He's been talking to Oscar a lot in recent days. He has no confidence in his tone of voice. He's just a man that... almost like someone that's walking around in circles and doesn't know where he's going. He just always seems to mention Reeva and to ask us to pray for her and her family. But most of all, I said to him he's gotta understand that we are here for him and we will always be his friends. I would say, just speaking to him, that he's a broken man and I would go as far as to say that he would be on the verge of suicide. It really worries me. His family deny that he is suicidal. I've returned to London to finish this film but information continues to reach us from the top of the investigation. Police tell us that they're looking at a massive number of texts on Reeva's iPhone. They've also requested all records of phone calls and messages sent and received by Oscar and Reeva that night. Police also tell us that they will not enter into a plea bargain for any lesser charge, which strongly suggests that they will continue to pursue the charge or premeditated murder, which means that Oscar Pistorius, if found guilty, could face life. A straightforward charge of murder would carry 15 years. The team defending the Paralympic champion still insist that it was a tragic accident and that the true story will all be revealed during the court case. They also say that Oscar is distraught. Reeva Steenkamp's family want her to be remembered as the bright, beautiful daughter that was the star of a new reality-TV show. They authorised the broadcast tribute to Reeva, which seems like a fitting way to end this documentary. REEVA: I think the way that you go out, not just your journey in life, but the way that you go out and you make your exit is so important. You either made an impact in a positive way or a negative way. But just maintain integrity and maintain class and just always be true to yourself. And I want her to be remembered for the heart that she had and for the way she believed in love and life. I want people to just remember her and... ..and just embrace what she was about and what she wanted to live for. And I'm gonna miss you all so much. And I love you very, very much. I'm sure that will certainly get a few people talking. If you want to see that story again, you can head to our website. You can also email us at... Or of course you can go to our Facebook page. And let us know your thoughts on tonight's special edition. Well, thanks for all your feedback and your story suggestions. Keep them coming. That's our show for tonight. We'll be back next Thursday for our regular programme. Until then, have a great week.