The father of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend says he wants to meet the Paralympic athlete to seek closure over the killing of his daughter.
Pistorius was released last week after just a year in prison for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp through a locked toilet door in their bedroom in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013.
'I think I will get more closure one day if I get the chance to speak to Oscar myself,' said Reeva's father Barry Steenkamp.
'Most probably I wouldn't have to say anything. I will just have to look at him... but that is what I would like to do one day.'
Daily Mail reports that Pistorius faces a further test at the Supreme Court on November 3 when prosecutors will appeal for a murder conviction and a tougher sentence that could see him jailed for at least 15 years.
'Once that has all come to an end it will give us time to settle down,' Barry Steenkamp said about the state appeal.
'It will give a lot of us closure, whether it is good or bad.'
Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter who competed in the London 2012 Olympics, was released in secret on Monday to avoid media attention and is now living at his uncle's house in Pretoria.
Reeva's mother June said she wanted him to understand 'how he has destroyed our lives.'
'I would just want him to realise actually what he has taken away from us,' she said.
June Steenkamp plans to launch a charity next year named after her daughter to campaign against violence against women.
Pistorius will serve the rest of his five-year sentence for culpable homicide - a charge equivalent to manslaughter - under house arrest.
During his six-month trial, he said he shot Steenkamp, a model and law graduate, with a pistol he kept under his bed because he mistook her for an intruder.
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