“It remains a danger.” Oscar Pistorius has a new girlfriend: she is identical to the one he killed 11 years ago

The former athlete was released from prison this year, and already has a new girlfriend. Her name is Rita Greyling, she is a consultant, her family was involved in a homicide investigation and… she is (very) similar to Reeva Steenkamp.

The South African “blade runner”, the first man with both legs amputated to compete in both the Paralympic and Olympic Games this year, after almost nine years arrested for shooting his girlfriend to deathReeva Steenkamp, ​​on February 12, 2013, after an intense discussion.

At the time, Oscar Pistorius said he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder and fired a gun through the bathroom door. He assured the court that he had “horrible nightmares” about the episode, and trying to slit his wrists in prison.

Now, he has a new girlfriend, less than a year after being released.

Over the weekend, Steenkamp’s sister commented on the similarities between the late South African model and Pistorius’ new girlfriend: “I’m looking at photographs of this woman and I feel shivers down my spine… She looks so much like my Reeva. He has the same build, the same face and hair, even the same eyes. Is he so sick that he wanted to find a lookalike?”

Rita Greyling (33), a dynamic business management consultant, is Oscar Pistorius’ new girlfriend. Oscar was released on parole from Atteridgeville Prison in Pretoria on 5 Jan 2024. Oscar served a prison sentence for shooting & killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

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He further added: “I warn you to sleep with one eye open. He has the potential within him to do what he did to Reeva again and I don’t want that to happen again.”

But who is Rita Greyling, who, physically, looks more like a copy of the girlfriend that Pistrorius murdered 11 years ago?

A The 33-year-old business management consultant is from Wakkerstroom, in Mpumalanga, South Africa, the. He grew up in a farming family and his father, BP Greyling, has appeared on television programs about the success of his farming business. Rita Greyling’s family are friends with Pistorius’ family.

And, like the 38-year-old former athlete, has a history with the word “homicide” — even though she hasn’t been accused of any.

It all happened in 2022, when a guest died at his brother’s bachelor party Ghini Greyling. Willem Kruger disappeared during the event at Henbase Lodge in Morgenzon and was found dead days later in the Vaal River.

Initially, the incident was ruled an accident, but police opened a homicide investigation into Greyling’s family after announcing it was “now more convinced that there was a crime“. The case has not yet been resolved.

Now, a source close to the former athlete has told The Telegraph that Pistorius “is trying to rebuild his life in a discreet way and avoids bars and restaurants and the general public and is going unnoticed. He is trying to slowly reintegrate into society, but this is being done through families your family has been close to for decades.”

Reeva Steenkamp’s mother, Jane, 78, has also reacted to the relationship between the two: “I don’t understand how she doesn’t see a red flag towards him, because he He hasn’t lost his temper problem.”

When he left a warning: “He remains a danger for women.”