Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympian on trial for killing his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is selling his house where the shooting took place to fund the costs of a longer-than-expected murder trial, his law firm said.
"Due to the delay in finalizing the trial, the decision to urgently dispose of his single biggest asset has had to be made," lawyer Brian Webber, of Ramsay Webber Inc., said Thursday in a statement on the athlete's website. "Mr. Pistorius cannot contemplate ever returning to live there again."
The property was valued at 5 million rand ($456,000), according to Pistorius' bail-application statement from February 2013.
The trial that started March 3 was originally scheduled to run for three weeks. It has been extended until at least April 4.
- Bloomberg News