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THESE are the horrific pictures of the deadly gunshot wounds that killed model Reeva Steenkamp.

The shocking images, which show the injuries inflicted by “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius, were released after Steenkamp’s parents asked for the “world to see” them, The Sun reports.

“I want the world to see. I want the world to see the photos of the wounds inflicted on her. To know my daughter’s pain. To know what her last few seconds were like, so that this is stopped — so that others do not have to go through this ever,” Barry Steenkamp said, sobbing, in an emotionally charged testimony.

Judge Thokozile Masipa released six of the bloody pictures, taken at the scene of the crime, showing the model’s horrendous head injuries.

She was shot in the head, elbow and hip through the bathroom door at Pistorius’s house in 2013.

Steenkamp was struck by three military-grade Black Talon bullets.

The shells are designed to get bigger once they hit their target, causing further damage to the model’s body.

The sickening photos illustrate exactly how much pain Steenkamp was in while she lay dying in the Blade Runner’s house on Valentine’s Day three years ago.

“There were scores for them to look at and they bravely chose the ones that showed the horrific impact of her injuries,” a source told MailOnline.

“It was a very painful process for them, but they are very anxious that people know exactly what their daughter went through on the night she died.”

Even though Reeva’s father Barry begged the judge to show the world the pain that his daughter must have been in, the photos have been pixelated because they are too graphic.

The chilling photos have been released the same day that the humiliated Blade Runner was forced to walk across the courtroom on his stumps in a bid for leniency.

Pistorius teetered on his stumps in front of a packed courtroom today in a desperate bid to convince the judge he was too vulnerable to have murdered his girlfriend intentionally.

The star of the London Olympics looked humiliated and distressed as he was asked to remove his prosthetic limbs and expose his stumps to the televised hearing which will decide what punishment he will face.

There was an awkward moment when Barry Steenkamp was forced to stand to make way for his daughter’s killer as he left the dock for the dramatic demonstration.

Pistorius is facing at least 15 years in jail for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp.

He is set to be sentenced on July 6.

His T-shirt wet with sweat and his red eyes filled with tears, Pistorius paused at the side of the court to remove his prosthetic limbs in the full view of the packed court.

The spectacle of the one-time sporting superstar tottering across the courtroom prompted a number of family members, fans and members of the public to break down in tears.

Loud sobs echoed around the wood-panelled room as all eyes watched Pistorius move unsteadily, and much dramatically reduced in height, towards the front of the court.

As he struggled to stand still in front of the judge, and in the glare of live television coverage, a cameraman had to step forward to support him.

His therapist leapt to his aid, guiding him towards the front bench of the court, which he clutched to maintain his balance.

Pistorius, 29, appeared so humiliated by the demonstration that he could only stare at the floor, tears flooding down his cheeks, as his lawyer told the court how he did not wish “to hide behind his fame”.

When the strain of tottering became too much, he knelt down, before wiping his eyes with a tissue passed to him by one of his legal team.

Pistorius’s sister Aimee and his close friend Jenna Edkins wiped tears from their eyes at the excruciating demonstration of the athlete’s vulnerability.

Mr Steenkamp, 72, then had to stand for a second time to allow the Pistorius to return to the sanctuary of the dock where he bent over, his powerful shoulders shaking as he sobbed.

Closing his powerful argument in favour of leniency, Mr Roux reminded the judge that punishment was “not meant to break the offender”.

State attorney Gerrie Nel said he would support Mr Steenkamp’s demand for the “world to see” the extent of Reeva’s injuries, with the ban to be lifted on publishing pictures of her bullet-riddled body.

“Isn’t it time for the world to see what Oscar Pistorius did with Black Talon rounds to Reeva Steenkamp’s head?” he told the court, referring to the expanding bullets used by Pistorius in the killing. The deadly ammunition is used by the military and designed to expand upon impact, wreaking devastating damage to the flesh it strikes.

He also questioned Pistorius’s claim of remorse, despite giving no consistent explanation for what happened on the night Reeva was shot dead.

“Remorse without a credible explanation is impossible — remorse for what?” Mr Nel asked.

“There is a difference between I am very sorry Reeva is dead and I am sorry for myself that Reeva is dead.”

Challenging the defence’s request to spare Pistorius a return to jail and hospitalising him instead, Mr Nel said was too far from the prescribed sentence for murder, which is 15 years.

Mr Nel said he had consulted with Barry and June Steenkamp during the lunch break and they confirmed they were willing for the gruesome images to be shared.

The application immediately prompted the runner’s family and supporters to shake their heads, and clutch one another in horror.

The killer himself, slumped forward in the dock, grasped his red face in his hands at the suggestion. And his brother Carl was prompt to express his disgust at the prosecutor’s application.

“This application is distasteful to all parties. Except perhaps some parties who stand to profit from such,” he wrote on Twitter.

Once again Mr Nel attacked the disabled runner’s decision to give a television interview this week, rather than speak to the court and asked the judge to consider his decision in “a negative view.”

Mr Nel said the pictures were handed into court and should be made available as public documents.

The only reason he had asked for them to be banned from being shared during the murder trial, in 2014, was “to protect the integrity of the deceased”.

Now that the Steenkamps wanted the restriction to be lifted, Mr Nel said it would be left to the discretion of the media to use their own judgment about whether to publish them or not.

“I brought the application because the mother of the deceased was in court, she has now given her permission,” he added.

Judge Masipa said she would give her decision about the application at the time of the sentencing.

The closing statement came after Reeva Steenkamp’s cousin described the enduring “scars” left by the model’s murder as she gave evidence to the court.

Kim Martin, who testified as her cousin’s “voice” told the court how “every celebration” had “become a funeral” in the wake of the fatal shooting three years ago.

The mum-of-three told Pretoria’s High Court that “every single day, no day goes by where I don’t think about her”.

“I am coping, getting on with my life, but the scars and the effects runs very, very deep,” she said. “We will never get over it, but I am the mother of three children, I have to give them hope for the future.”

Pistorius is facing a minimum of 15 years behind bars for the murder of his 29-year-old girlfriend after an earlier manslaughter conviction was overturned.

This article was orginally published on The Sun and is republished here with permission.

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