14 DAY TRIAL // A report by Eyewitness News claims that the sprint runner Oscar Pistorius has reached an out-of-court settlement in the 2009 assault case in which a Pretoria blogger accused him of assault. The accusation stemmed from an incident that occurred at his house during a party.
In the court documents, it was stated that South African blogger Cassidy Taylor-Memmory was in attendance at a party that Pistorius was throwing at his house, when she was injured in the leg after Oscar reportedly punched a door. The runner was subsequently arrested.
At the time, Taylor-Memmory, who was a friend of Oscar's girlfriend, said she was shocked at the volatile behavior the athlete displayed and claimed she wasn't aware he had anger management issues.
In her statement to the press, the blogger confirmed that she and Pistorius had reached an agreement and that he was going to pay her legal fees, but did not make any comment on the amount of money she received in the settlement.
The reason why she finally relented after a four-year legal battle was because “I was so tired of it weighing me down.”
She also revealed that she had been harassed by the press and the public, “I received hate mail on a daily basis. People who didn’t know me from a bar of soap were calling me the most horrific names. It became so difficult at a stage that I needed a bodyguard when I went out in public due to all the hate rants.”
The blogger was also forced to deny allegations from the Pistorius camp that she filed the lawsuit as a means of achieving fame and money.
Meanwhile, Oscar Pistorius is still undergoing investigation in the famous case of the Reeva Steenkamp shooting. The case alleges that Pistorius shot and killed girlfriend Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year in his Pretoria home.
The athlete has been claiming that the incident was just a case of mistaken identity, as he believed at the time that Steenkamp was an intruder in his home. His trial date is set to March 3.