By Netsai Dube
Pretoria – Oscar Pistorius has plans to sell his upmarket Pretoria house where he shot dead his girlfriend so he can meet legal fees for his murder trial, his lawyer said Thursday.
The house is valued at $460,000.
“It has become necessary to sell Mr Pistorius’s home in the Silver Woods Country Estate in Pretoria in order for him to raise the necessary funds to cover his increasing legal costs,” the 27-year-old’s lawyer Brian Webber said in a statement.
“This is due to the unexpected extension of the trial beyond the initial three-week period for which it was originally set down.”
The house will be sold in a closed bid, starting at five million rand ($460,000, 330,000 euro), according to estate agent Ansie Louw.
Athlete Pistorious has been paying his own legal fees since he shot dead his girl friend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013.
As much as $9,000 (6,700 euros) a day is what he has been paying and this includes at least three full-time lawyers in court, ballistics and forensics experts as well as an American crime scene reconstruction company.
Pistorious is currently living at his uncle`s residence.
Paralympic and double-amputee sprinter Pistorious is being charged with intentionally killing 29-year-old Steenkamp after an argument.
The trial resumes Monday.
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