June Steenkamp: Oscar Pistorius terrorised my daughter

June Steenkamp plans to create a charity in her daughter's memory for abused women.

June Steenkamp was caught in one of the most high-profile criminal cases in recent memory when her daughter Reeva was killed by the paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. Ms Steenkamp told Outlook on the BBC World Service her experiences of the trial, her memories of Reeva, and why she had to take payments from her daughter's killer.

We were always laughing, she had a brilliant sense of humour. She was a kind, loving person, always trying to help others... She just lit up the room when she came in - she had your attention.
I had her for 22 years, but you have to let your children go, you don't own them, you have to let them do what they want to do. We were very close, I'm very understanding.

Her father wasn't so understanding, he just wanted her to be out of danger. He didn't want her to be in Johannesburg because it's quite dangerous compared to Port Elizabeth (PE).

He was worried about her. When he spoke to her he would be asking: "When are you going to come home for good?" But she couldn't make money in PE.