We know that before his sentencing Oscar Pistorius gave his first sit-down interview since he killed Reeva Steenkamp, but details on what was said have been rather scarce.

Now, ahead of the screening this Friday, some of what Oscar said has been revealed to really drum up interest.

The Guardian has the lowdown:

Oscar Pistorius has admitted he deserves a long jail sentence for killing Reeva Steenkamp but vehemently denied he murdered her, insisting that the 2013 shooting was not premeditated.

In his first TV interview since his girlfriend’s death, Pistorius said he “couldn’t disagree” with those who felt he should be punished. “At times I don’t feel like I should have the right to live for taking someone else’s life. What’s difficult is dealing with the charge of murder,” he said.

But Pistorius said he did not want to “waste my life” behind bars. “If I was afforded the opportunity of redemption I would like to help the less fortunate like I had in my past,” he said. “I would like to believe that if Reeva could look down upon me that she would want me to live that life.”

What about his account of the actual night when it all went down?

Pistorius said he arrived home just after 6pm to find Reeva “smiling and giddy and just bubbly”. She had cooked a romantic meal and laid the table with a candle. After, they lay down on the bed and chatted, he said, adding that “when I came in the room I placed my firearm on the left hand side of the bed”.

Pistorius said he took his prosthetic legs off and fell asleep. It was “pitch dark”. At 3am he woke. “I heard this noise coming from the bathroom,” he said. “It was a sliding noise of the window frame hitting the frame.”

He claimed he “immediately got panicked” and believed that “someone was actually in the process of breaking in”, possibly with a ladder.

The athlete said he scooped up his firearm and, believing Steenkamp was still in the room, whispered to her to get down and ring the police. He said he was terrified as he walked toward the bathroom on his stumps, gun in hand.

“All of a sudden I heard a noise, at the toilet,” he said. “I presumed it was the toilet door opening and before I know it I’d fired four shots.”

It will be screened this Friday (June 24), set to air at 10.55pm on M-net City (Channel 115 on DStv). Here’s You:

“We will have the Oscar Pistorius interview on our screens literally as the end credits are rolling on ITV,” Jan du Plessis, director of M-net channels, said in a statement on the channel’s website.

The interview will be packaged as a special edition of the current affairs programme Carte Blanche.

“The Carte Blanche team, who has been following the trial intensively from the start, will add to the conversation with their valuable insights and comments with the Carte Blanche special.”

Back to the Guardian:

Pistorius told ITV he “saw the pain” he had caused and said that most of his mutual friends with Steenkamp “don’t speak to me any more”. One woman had spotted him shopping in Pretoria and had screamed at the store for allowing him in. He put down his basket and left, he said.

Pistorius denied some of the allegations levelled against him, including that he had behaved violently to Steenkamp before he shot her, hitting her with a cricket bat, and that he had taken steroids. Asked whether he was violent towards women, he said: “No, not at all.”

More hectic details on that interview, this time from News24:

“I can smell the blood. I can feel the warmness of it on my hands. And to know that that’s your fault, that that’s what you’ve done…

“And I just see blood and it’s just blood everywhere. It’s just blood everywhere… So much blood and I don’t know what to do.

“I’m trying to pick her up, but there’s so much blood I can’t stand up. And I thought Reeva had started breathing, so I had my fingers in her mouth and I was trying to give her mouth to mouth, but there was so much blood.”

You can bet there will be plenty of tears during this one.

[sources:guardian&you&news24]