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Oscar Pistorius parole for 10 years after murdering girlfriend Reba Steenkamp in South Africa

Johannesburg — Former Olympic runner and Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius is eligible for parole. South Africa’s parole board will meet on Friday to decide whether his Pistorius, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ​​will be released from prison. I was.

The board will assess his conduct and disciplinary record in prison, his participation in education or other training courses during his incarceration in the last 10 years, and whether Pistorius, now 36, still poses a threat to public safety. We will examine his mental and physical condition.

Audiences around the world were glued to the live courtroom broadcast of the 2014 murder trial. Prosecutors alleged that Elite, his athlete father, shot his girlfriend on purpose through a locked bathroom door in the middle of the night.

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A photo taken on January 26, 2013 shows Olympian Oscar Pistorius posing next to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg.

Waldo Sweegers/AFP/Getty


Pistorius all along claimed it was a terrible accident and mistook Steenkamp for the intruder. was convicted of

he was Sentenced to 13 years and 5 months in prison in 2017which took into account the little over a year he had already served during the appeal process.

If granted parole, his uncle Arno Pistorius’ property has already been investigated by social workers in Pretoria, where he will serve the remainder of his sentence.

Parole terms vary in South Africa, but could include electronic tags to monitor his movements and a ban on making money from media interviews about his imprisonment.

Steenkamp’s mother, June, is scheduled to speak before the parole board. She argued that she, along with her husband, had previously indicated her intentions to oppose Pistorius’ early release, and that unless Pistorius admitted to knowingly murdering her daughter, she would not be considered to have shown remorse. bottom.


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Pistorius was last paroled in 2021, but his request was denied for technical reasons. Didn’t meet Steenkamp’s family Required under South African regulations for parole.

The year before the murders, Pistorius was a star of the London Olympics and was recognized worldwide as the first double amputee to compete against a non-disabled person. His prowess with his carbon fiber prostheses has earned him the nickname “Blade Runner”.


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Johannesburg — Former Olympic runner and Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius is eligible for parole. South Africa’s parole board will meet on Friday to decide whether his Pistorius, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ​​will be released from prison. I was. The board will assess his conduct and disciplinary record in prison, his participation in education or other training courses during his incarceration in the last 10 years, and whether Pistorius, now 36, still poses a threat to public safety. We will examine his mental and physical condition. Audiences around the world were glued to the live courtroom broadcast of the 2014 murder trial. Prosecutors alleged that Elite, his athlete father, shot his girlfriend on purpose through a locked bathroom door in the middle of the night.

A photo taken on January 26, 2013 shows Olympian Oscar Pistorius posing next to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg.

Waldo Sweegers/AFP/Getty

Pistorius all along claimed it was a terrible accident and mistook Steenkamp for the intruder. was convicted of

he was Sentenced to 13 years and 5 months in prison in 2017which took into account the little over a year he had already served during the appeal process. If granted parole, his uncle Arno Pistorius’ property has already been investigated by social workers in Pretoria, where he will serve the remainder of his sentence.

Parole terms vary in South Africa, but could include electronic tags to monitor his movements and a ban on making money from media interviews about his imprisonment. Steenkamp’s mother, June, is scheduled to speak before the parole board. She argued that she, along with her husband, had previously indicated her intentions to oppose Pistorius’ early release, and that unless Pistorius admitted to knowingly murdering her daughter, she would not be considered to have shown remorse. bottom.

‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius Convicted of Killing Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ​​Released on Parole

02:33

Pistorius was last paroled in 2021, but his request was denied for technical reasons. Didn’t meet Steenkamp’s family Required under South African regulations for parole.The year before the murders, Pistorius was a star of the London Olympics and was recognized worldwide as the first double amputee to compete against a non-disabled person. His prowess with his carbon fiber prostheses has earned him the nickname “Blade Runner”.

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