Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius crushed his girlfriend’s skull with a cricket bat before shooting her dead, police have told her family.

Details of the post-mortem examination of South African model Reeva Steenkamp were withheld from last week’s bail application hearing.

But grieving relatives who saw her body before Tuesday’s cremation in Port Elizabeth described horrific injuries from the cricket bat, and entry wounds from 9mm bullets fired by Pistorius.

They were also briefed about the model’s death by police and lawyers from the state prosecutor’s office.

In a sworn affidavit read to the bail hearing in Pretoria magistrates’ court last week, Pistorius claimed that he used the bat to break down the toilet door after the shooting, saying he had not realised his girlfriend was in the bathroom.

The bloodstained bat, which is currently being examined by a police forensics team, will be key evidence when Pistorius goes on trial for premeditated murder.

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How are they going to prove that she was beaten with the bat before he killed her? Could he have beaten her with the bat afterwards?

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How are they going to prove that she was beaten with the bat before he killed her? Could he have beaten her with the bat afterwards?

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How are they going to prove that she was beaten with the bat before he killed her? Could he have beaten her with the bat afterwards?

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Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius crushed his girlfriend’s skull with a cricket bat before shooting her dead, police have told her family.

Details of the post-mortem examination of South African model Reeva Steenkamp were withheld from last week’s bail application hearing.

But grieving relatives who saw her body before Tuesday’s cremation in Port Elizabeth described horrific injuries from the cricket bat, and entry wounds from 9mm bullets fired by Pistorius.

They were also briefed about the model’s death by police and lawyers from the state prosecutor’s office.

In a sworn affidavit read to the bail hearing in Pretoria magistrates’ court last week, Pistorius claimed that he used the bat to break down the toilet door after the shooting, saying he had not realised his girlfriend was in the bathroom.

The bloodstained bat, which is currently being examined by a police forensics team, will be key evidence when Pistorius goes on trial for premeditated murder.

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If he hit her after she was dead, there'll be no bruising.

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How are they going to prove that she was beaten with the bat before he killed her? Could he have beaten her with the bat afterwards?

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If he hit her after she was dead, there'll be no bruising.

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If he did hit her after she was dead, he is one sick twisted individual. What could possibly motivate someone to do this?

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Imagine him beating her with those cybernetic legs? CREEEEEPY!

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If he hit her after she was dead, there'll be no bruising.

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If he did hit her after she was dead, he is one sick twisted individual. What could possibly motivate someone to do this?

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Drugs, what possibably could make someone try and eat another persons face, drugs. His idiot brother ran over a girl on a bicycle.

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