In a statement, the Pistorius family said no new evidence existed to back up the allegations and called the book’s authors “amateur forensic hobbyists” who were only seeking fame and money. It also condemned what it called the media’s “often-vicious” parallel trial against him.
In their book “Oscar vs The Truth,” brothers Calvin and Thomas Mollett wrote they had seen new evidence, including marks on the back of Reeva Steenkamp’s body that indicated Pistorius had hit her with the bat before he killed her.
“This is yet another attention-seeking, money-making exercise, this time by two citizens with detective fantasies who have a history of latching onto high-profile cases after the fact,” the Pistorius family said.
