Pistorius has admitted to shooting Steenkamp but says he mistook her for an intruder.
The judge ruled that he’ll serve a maximum five-year prison term for the killing, to run concurrently with a three-year sentence — suspended for five years — on the gun charge.
Beauty and brains
Before she started dating Pistorius, Steenkamp was famous in her own right.
She was a striking, platinum-haired model, gearing up for her reality television debut.
A law school graduate, she had a vibrant personality and a slew of modeling gigs under her belt.
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Booysen, 17, was raped and mutilated in South Africa in February 2013, putting a spotlight on violence against women in the nation.
Steenkamp urged her followers on Twitter to wear black the day after Valentine’s to protest violence against women.
A tragic end on Valentine’s
Steenkamp was looking forward to Valentine’s Day.
“What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow?” she asked her Twitter followers the day before. “Get excited.”
At dawn, she lay dead in a pool of blood.
