Reeva Steenkamp's parents revealed that they would be willing to personally confront Oscar Pistorius and question him over the murder of their 29-year-old daughter.

In September, the Paralympic athlete known as the "Blade Runner" was found not guilty of murder in the 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The Olympic champ argued that he shot her on Feb. 14 by mistake because he thought she was a home intruder.

Although Judge Thokozile Masipa acquitted him of murder charges, she found him guilty of culpable homicide, a lesser charge that is comparable to manslaughter. She last month sentenced the double-amputee runner to five years at Pretoria's Central Prison. However, he is only required to serve 10 months behind bars before he can be moved to community supervision or house arrest.

During a recent interview with The Guardian, Steenkamp's mother, June, told the newspaper that Pistorius "asked if he could see us, but at that stage we weren't ready to speak to him."

"What can he say? Sorry is not enough," she continued. "What can he say and what would we want to talk to him about? I don't know. But one day that confrontation will come. Altercation? Maybe. Violence? No, I don't think so. But that day has to come."

In October, National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Nathi Mncub announced that the organization "will be appealing both the conviction and sentence."

"The appeal on conviction is based on the question of law," the national prosecuting spokesman said, according to BBC News. "The prosecutors are now preparing the necessary papers in order to be able to file within the next few days."

Mncube added that fiery prosecutor Gerrie Nel and his aides "had been studying the judgment, doing research and consulting legal experts to establish if there were sufficient grounds to lodge appeals," reports The New York Times.

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