Murder accused Oscar Pistorius has reached an out-of-court settlement with a woman who laid an assault charge against him, his lawyer said today.
“The matter was settled between the parties last year,” Pistorius's lawyer Brian Webber said.
He declined to give details of the settlement.
Eye Witness News reported that Cassidy Taylor-Memmory reached the settlement with Pistorius's lawyers in December.
She alleged the Paralympic athlete slammed a door against her, hurting her leg at a party at Pistorius's home in 2009. He was arrested and charged with assault.
She told Eye Witness News she agreed to the settlement because she wanted to put the matter behind her.
“I agreed to it because I was so tired of it weighing me down,” she was quoted as saying.
Pistorius accused her of being drunk and aggressive at the time. Taylor-Memmory denied this.
The athlete's trial is scheduled to start in the High Court in Pretoria on March 3.
He will face charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition, and be indicted on two other charges of firing a gun recklessly in a public place on two separate occasions.
Pistorius, whose legs were amputated below the knee when he was a boy, is known world-wide as the “Blade Runner” for competing on two carbon fibre blades and running against able-bodied athletes in the London 2012 Olympic games.
He shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29, on February 14
last year through a locked bathroom door at his upmarket Pretoria home. He said he mistook her for an intruder.
Sapa