June Steenkamp has said she has no "feelings of revenge" towards South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who was released into house arrest this week just under a year into his five-year jail term for killing her daughter, model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp.
"I've got no feelings of revenge. I don't want to hurt him, he's already a disabled person," June Steenkamp said in her first comments since Pistorius' release late on Monday.
The disgraced track star, who was found guilty of culpable homicide for firing four shots through a locked bathroom door that hit Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in the capital Pretoria.
June Steenkamp said she did not want Pistorius to suffer.
"I didn't want him to be thrown in jail and be suffering, because I don't wish suffering on anyone and that's not gonna bring Reeva back," June Steenkamp said at the launch of the Reeva Steenkamp Foundation at a school in the southern city of Port Elizabeth.
"I don't want him [Oscar Pistorius] to suffer because then I would be like other people. I don't want to be like other people, I've got my own ideas.
"One has to forgive to move on otherwise you become ill and you forgive for God. God expects you to forgive, until you have done that you can't move forward in any way," she added.
