The mother of Reeva Steenkamp has said paralympian Oscar Pistorius may have gotten a longer sentence if it was not for his fame.
June Steenkamp says she has no bad feelings toward Pistorius and wants to move on with her life.
He spent one year of a five-year sentence for culpable homicide behind bars. He will serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest in Pretoria.
Ms Steenkamp, a reality TV star, died when Pistorius fired four shots though a locked toilet door at his home on Valentine's Day in 2013.
"It's not going to bring Reeva back, whatever happens to him so it makes no difference to me that's been released" June Steenkamp told the Pat Kenny Show here on Newstalk.
"I've got no feelings of revenge or wanting bad things for him - I'm just not like that, I have to move on with my life".
She also confirmed she will attend the appeal of Oscar Pistorius next week.
"I wasn't going to go, but I've decided I must support the people who are fighting the justice for her".
"I'd like justice for Reeva - I think taking her life deserves more than the 10 or 11 months that he's served in prison".
She also admits that if Pistorius was not so famous, he may have received a longer sentence.
"Maybe if he wasn't so famous...I think if he would have just been a normal guy in the street he would have maybe had a stiffer sentence".
"Like a trapped animal in that toilet"
On Reeva herself, June said: "We doted on her because she was a late baby - I had her late on in my life, and I didn't really think I would have another child".
"She was always laughing and people were drawn to her - when she came in a room, the light went on".
"I have nightmares about what happened to her when she was trapped behind that door and how she died - sometimes I wake up at three in the morning and that's the first thing that comes in my head and I couldn't be there to protect her from that".
"We didn't know he had guns, we didn't know anything about him actually".
On her daughter's killing, June says one image goes through her mind: "She couldn't move in that toilet, she couldn't move a centimetre either way to get out of the way of the firing - she was like a trapped animal in that toilet".
She also says she just does not believe Pistorius's version of events.
"I don't really believe his story...I can't believe he didn't go look for her and find out where she was then".
"Why would a burglar in any case lock himself in the toilet when you think of it?", she added.
