Reeva Steenkamp

Reeva Steenkamp may not have been so excited had she known what her boyfriend had in store for her 24 hours later, shooting her three times through a bathroom door on 14th February 2013. In what was argued to be a misunderstanding, her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius, said he thought an intruder had broken into his home and hidden in the bathroom. In apparent fear for his life, and that of Steenkamp, he fired four shots through the door with three of them striking the model, killing her. After graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2005, Steenkamp moved to Johannesburg to continue an already promising modelling career, being voted one of the “100 sexiest women in the world” in 2011 and 2012 by FHM magazine. Knowing the celebrity wouldn’t last forever, she applied to the bar in late 2011, and hoped to be a qualified legal advocate by the age of 30 with the intention of starting a law firm with a university friend to help abused women. She was also pursuing a television career, her…