Jeanne-Marié Versluis

Johannesburg – Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius is claiming R2.2m from a student after she allegedly laid a malicious charge of assault against him.

Pistorius has stated in documents in the Pretoria High Court that he suffered damages of R2 218 988 because of the actions of Ms Cassidy Taylor-Memmory.

He says that two public appearances were cancelled because of him being arrested and in custody.

Two institutions also refused to renew their “trademark ambassador” agreement with him and this led to loss of income.

Taylor-Memmory, of Silver Lakes in the east of Pretoria, on Wednesday wanted to bring an application to court that Pistorius should make certain documents available to her before she drew up her plea documents.

The case was then postponed indefinitely by agreement between the two parties.

Pistorius’s legal representatives have to draw up court documents by March 1 for the application by Taylor-Memmory.

Pistorius, also from Silver Lakes, says in his claim that Taylor-Memmory had laid a malicious charge of assault with the intent to do serious harm on 12 September 2009 at the Boschkop police office.

According to Pistorius, Taylor-Memmory alleged that he had slammed the house’s wooden door shut so that it broke and a piece of wood struck her against the leg.

After that she made additional statements to the police.

She said that he had punched the door with his fist so that it broke. She later alleged that he had struck the door with an open hand.

Pistorius says that Taylor-Memmory knew the information with the police was false.

She knows that her own kicking broke the door and that a piece of wood then struck her against the leg.

He was arrested because of her charge and freed again on 13 September 2009.

Pistorius says that he had felt threatened, humiliated, scared and vulnerable because of the complaint, arrest and being in custody.

His freedom was wrongfully taken away from him and he was not prosecuted.