Two South Africans who rented the former home of disgraced athlete Oscar Pistorius have been forced to apologise after posting a video they made of the property, including inside the bathroom where the Paralympian shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
David Scott, 33, and Kagiso Mokoape, 23, who are leasing the house at Silver Woods country estate in Pretoria where Pistorius killed model Steenkamp in 2013, boasted of the parties they could hold there.
“This is definitely an entertainer’s house. Oscar built this house to entertain,” Scott is seen saying on the YouTube video, as he holds a can of beer. “Hot girls can invite themselves.”
“Every weekend it is going to go down here,” Mokoape added. The house was reportedly sold to an unnamed mining consultant to pay for Pistorius’s legal costs.
The video then shows the two men in the bathroom where Pistorius shot Steenkamp through a locked toilet door in the early hours of Valentine’s Day.
Pistorius was found guilty last year of culpable homicide – a charge equivalent to manslaughter – after saying he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder. He was sentenced to five years in prison and was due for parole in August but his release has been delayed by an ongoing legal battle.
Scott initially responded to the news reports about his video with a message on his Facebook wall, half in Afrikaans and half in English, saying: “I am dying of laughter, this is a bit out of proportion, well, u know what they say ... there’s no such thing as bad publicity! He he.”
But he later added an apology, saying the video had sent “totally wrong message”.
“The house is about celebrating life and to be reminded about how precious it is! Not to make a mockery,” he said. The original video’s YouTube settings have since been made private.
The parole board is due to meet again on Thursday to reconsider Pistorius’s case for release on house arrest.