Oscar Pistorius is planning his own memorial service to say goodbye to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who he shot and killed on Valentine's Day. Source: AFP
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during his bail hearing before Magistrate Desmond Nair. Picture: AP Source: AP
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, right, and his sister Aimee, left, just after he was granted bail. Source: AP
Oscar Pistorius starts in the men's 400-metre semifinal during the athletics in the London Olympics. Source: AP
- Mum, sons dead in murder-suicide
- Pistorius judge says woman was his cousin
- Pistorius plans his own Reeva memorial
THE magistrate who granted bail to Oscar Pistorius says he is related to a woman suspected of killing her two children and then committing suicide last weekend.
Magistrate Desmond Nair confirmed the woman, whose body was found at her home on Sunday along with those of her sons, is a first cousin.
The latest shock comes as Pistorius plans his own private memorial for girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp who was shot dead in the Olympian's house on Valentine's Day. Pistorius is on bail awaiting trial for murder.
Mr Nair presided over dramatic bail hearings for Pistorius last week.
The bodies of Nair's cousin and her teenage sons were found at their Johannesburg home by her ex-husband, police Warrant Officer Balan Muthan said.
Authorities suspect the woman administered a substance that killed her children, and took her own life by ingesting it as well.
The woman's brother, Vishal Maharaj, identified her as Anusha Maharaj. Police say suicide notes were found.
"I can confirm the deceased is my first cousin," Nair told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet, said the boys who died were 12 and 17 years old and quoted neighbour Claire Osment as saying she rushed outside after hearing screams coming from the townhouse where they lived.
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Last week, the chief investigator in the case against Pistorius, Hilton Botha, was removed from the inquiry after it was revealed that attempted murder charges against him had been reinstated in early February. The charges relate to a 2011 incident in which Botha and two other police officers allegedly fired on a minibus.
In another surprise, a lawyer for the Pistorius family said on Sunday that Oscar's brother, Carl, faces a charge of unlawful, negligent killing for a 2008 road death. That charge had also been dropped and later reinstated.
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