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Pistorius to sell home where he shot lover to cover legal fees

“He has been forced to revisit this decision,” according to Webber, who said the statement was meant to pre-empt media speculation about the sale.

Pistorius valued the house at five million rand during his bail application in February last year.

At the time he also owned two other houses with a combined value of 1.5 million rand in Pretoria and a vacant plot worth 1.6 million rand in Cape Town.

All his properties together were worth 8.3 million rand Sh65mn, the sporting hero told the court.

Pistorius earned world-wide fame as the “Blade Runner” for running on two carbon fibre blades, after both his legs were amputated below the knee when he was born without fibulae.

He became the first double amputee to compete with able-bodied athletes at the London 2012 Olympics.

But he has fallen on hard times since the shooting, and lost many of the endorsement deals that earned him some $510,000 a year.

His trial opened on March 3, and witnesses have testified to hearing a woman’s terrified screams in the dead of night, followed by gunshots. READ: Pistorius vomits in court as girlfriend’s autopsy detailed.

A police ballistics expert said Thursday the first shot from Pistorius’s 9-millimetre pistol shattered Steenkamp’s hip bone. She then fell over and was struck in the head by another bullet.

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The trial resumes Monday.

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