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Self-confessed killer insults Oscar Pistorius' family

Mr Schultz is understood to be friends with Mark Batchelor, a former footballer who alleged Pistorius threatened to break his legs over an ex-girlfriend, and Jared Mortimer, a man with whom the athlete had a row at a nightclub several months ago, as he waited for judgement in his trial.

Mr Batchelor has been in court throughout the long-running trial, which last month saw Pistorius escape a charge of murdering Reeva Steenkamp but convicted of culpable homicide, while Mr Mortimer and Mr Schultz started attending the hearings this week, along with Pistorius’s former girlfriend Samantha Taylor, who gave evidence about how he cheated on her.

Mr Batchelor looks at Pistorius in court on Thursday

Mr Schultz denied the claim to journalists outside, saying the Pistoriuses were seeking to paint themselves as “the victims” and adding: “They’re all liars, like Oscar”.

The altercation followed further evidence from Kim Martin, Steenkamp’s cousin, who was called by the state which is seeking the maximum sentence of 15 years for Pistorius for shooting Steenkamp through a locked lavatory door at his home in Pretoria on St Valentine’s Day last year.

Ms Martin said she did not believe his apology to the Steenkamp family as he took to the witness box in his trial was genuine.

“I remember crying and it brought back to reality all we were hearing and it was because Reeva was dead,” she said. “Unfortunately it didn’t seem sincere.”

Ms Martin said she believed Pistorius should be jailed for his actions.

“I’m very fearful of the accused,” she said. “I have tried very hard to put him out of my mind. We have even made a point of not mentioning his name in our house because I didn’t want to spend any of my energy thinking about him.

“I really believe Mr Pistorius needs to pay for what he has done.

“My family are not people who are seeking revenge. We just feel that to take someone live to shoot someone behind a door, that is unarmed, that is harmless need sufficient punishment.”

Reeva’s parents cry in court on the penultimate day of sentencing mitigation

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel asked her about the claims that Pistorius would be kept in “inhumane” conditions in South Africa’s prison system.

“I was very worried when I was under the belief that prison conditions would be bad for him,” she said. “But when I discovered that his rehabilitation process in prison would actually humane and in keeping with the dignity of a human being.

“I can say honestly to the court that Mr Pistorius needs to pay for what he has done, for taking Reeva’s life, for what he has done to my uncle and aunt and for what he has done to my family but also to his family. Everyone has suffered here.”

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The Times Jerome Starkey, Africa Correspondent

Oscar Pistorius’s attempt to resurrect his social life backfired spectacularly this weekend after the athlete got into a fight at a nightclub.