Family of dead model Reeva Steenkamp comment after memorial service and cremation

(19 Feb 2013)
AP Entertainment
Port Elizabeth, 19 February 2013
1. Various of friends and family arriving at Victoria Park Crematorium for the funeral of slain model Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend
2. Mid of friends and family of Steenkamp outside crematorium, including Steenkamp's mother
3. SOUNDBITE (English) DJ Fresh, Friend of Reeva Steenkamp and host of Tropika Island of Treasure, the reality television show Steenkamp featured in:
"(Q You spent a lot of time with her on the island. What was she like?)
"Friendly, bubbly... you know."
4. Hearse outside crematorium, pan is coffin is carried into crematorium
5. Steenkamp's friends and family embracing outside crematorium
6. Steenkamp's brother, Adam Steenkamp, walking with partner
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Steenkamp, Reeva Steenkamp's brother:
"I won't say very much. There's a space missing inside all the people that she knew that can't be filled again. We're going to keep all the positive things that we remember and know about my sister, and we will try and continue with the things that she tried to make better. We'll miss her. That's it."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Steenkamp, Reeva Steenkamp's uncle:
"Unfortunately my brother couldn't make it, but we are here today as a family but there's only one thing missing, Reeva (he breaks down in tears). We've got together but we miss one."
9. Wide of crematorium with Steenkamp's friends and family outside
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FAMILY OF DEAD MODEL REEVA STEENKAMP COMMENT AFTER MEMORIAL SERVICE AND CREMATION
Family and friends of slain model Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend, gathered for her cremation and memorial service in her hometown of Port Elizabeth in South Africa on Tuesday.
The family said members had arrived from around the world.
Six pallbearers carried her coffin, draped with a white cloth and covered in white flowers, into the church for the private service.
Her brother Adam spoke of how much her family would miss her.
"There's a space missing inside all the people that she knew that can't be filled again. We're going to keep all the positive things that we remember and know about my sister, and we will try and continue with the things that she tried to make better," he said.
Her uncle Mike Steenkamp broke down in tears talking to reporters.
"We are here today as a family but there's only one thing missing, Reeva," he said, weeping.
Meanwhile in Pretoria, Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.
The double amputee said in an affidavit read by his lawyer at his bail hearing that he felt vulnerable because he did not have on his prosthetic legs when he pumped bullets into the locked bathroom door. Then, Pistorius said in the sworn statement, he realized that model Reeva Steenkamp was not in his bed.
He put on his prosthetic legs, tried to kick down the door, then bashed it in with a cricket bat to find Steenkamp, 29, shot inside. He said he ran downstairs with her, but "She died in my arms."
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel on Tuesday charged the 26-year-old athlete and Olympian with premeditated murder, alleging he took the time to put on his legs and walk some seven metres (yards) from the bed to the bathroom door before opening fire. A conviction of premeditated murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in jail.
Steenkamp was a model and law graduate who made her debut on a South African reality TV programme that was broadcast on Saturday, two days after her death.

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