could still be a gem of post-apartheid . But tomorrow the only double amputee in Olympic history will walk away from jail a paunchy, greying, chain-smoker under threat forever from the underworld - as well as a convicted murderer. Now 37, for the four gunshots that changed his life and, more devastatingly, ended that of his model girlfriend of three months, Reeva Steenkamp. It was at the height of his fame on Valentine's Day 2013, not even a year after he ran at London 2012 on carbon fibre blades, that the sprinter fired a licensed 9mm pistol through a locked bathroom door at his bachelor pad in a gated community in the hills above Pretoria, killing 30-year-old Reeva, who was behind it.
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