The convicted killer spoke to Jenna Edkins, 25, for nine minutes on the evening of the killing, a new book reveals.
Pistorius and Edkins were in an on-off relationship for five years, and he is believed to have still been seeing her and another woman when he met Miss Steenkamp.
The Paralympian has been convicted of culpable homicide, escaping the more serious charge of murder for shooting his 29-year-old girlfriend on Valentines’ Day 2013.
But at sentencing next month, he could simply be fined - avoiding a 15-year jail term – after Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled there was a lack of evidence to suggest he planned the killing.
During the course of the trial, Pistorius has been exposed as a paranoid love cheat who had multiple affairs behind Reeva Steenkamp's back during their relationship.
It has been revealed that the 27-year-old double amputee started dating Miss Steenkamp when he was still seeing Miss Edkins, a banker from Johannesburg, and another woman.
Mobile phone data uncovered by South African journalists Barry Bateman and Mandy Wiener during the research for their forthcoming book Behind The Door, show that Pistorius was on the phone to Miss Edkins on the eve of the killing.
Miss Edkins, who was stored in Pistorius’ phone book as ‘Babyshoes’, is one of the few former lovers to speak out in support of the Paralympian after the killing.
Police did not discover the nine-minute phone call, and Miss Edkins never gave a statement to the authorities, The Mirror reports.
Miss Edkins has only posted five times since setting up her Twitter account in 2009, four of those are in support of Pistorius, all written on February 15th last year, the day after he shot Reeva Steenkamp.
‘People must stop jumping on the bandwagon with such hurtful allegations. Os is the loving , amazing inspirational person we know him to be,’ she writes in the first post.
‘You have all my familys love and support #loveandsupportoscar (sic)’
‘All I am saying is let him speak, let his side be heard without jumping to conclusions. Love and thoughts to Reeva’s family.’
The final post firmly defends Pistorius, reading: ‘I would just like to say , I have dated Oscar on off for 5 YEARS, NOT ONCE has he EVER lifted a finger to me , made me fear for my life..’
In a recent interview, the mother of one of Pistorius’ ex-girlfriends, Sam Taylor, said: ‘Sammy once saw a Facebook profile picture of a woman called Jenna Edkins sitting on Oscar’s bed with Kola, the puppy that Sammy and Oscar had bought together.
‘He always denied he was having any contact with Jenna, but the picture proved otherwise.’
Miss Taylor split from him after a year-and-a-half when she found he had been cheating with Miss Edkins and ‘a lady from New York called Anastasia,’ believed to have been Anastasia Khozissova.
She said their relationship was tempestuous, with Pistorius often “screaming” at her.
It also emerged during the dramatic six-moth trail that Ms Steenkamp sent Pistorius texts complaining about his treatment of her just weeks before she was killed.
One said: ‘Every five seconds I hear how u dated another chick.
‘You really have dated a lot of people yet you get upset if I mention one funny story with a long-term boyfriend.’
Police suspected the brother of Oscar Pistorius of wiping data from the Olympian’s phone in the days after he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a South African radio station claimed on Thursday.
Investigators believed Carl Pistorius synchronised his computer with his brother’s iPhone, wiping out the entire call history and all WhatsApp messages, according to an investigation by Eyewitness News (EWN).
Police “considered charging him with defeating the ends of justice but ultimately declined to proceed with a case against him,” EWN said.
The athlete will be sentenced at a hearing on October 13.
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