Olympian Oscar Pistorius to be released on parole in January 2024

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Pretoria (South Africa). Olympic and Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole and will be released from jail on January 5. Pistorius was in jail since 2014 for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Pistorius, also known as the “Blade Runner” for his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs, won multiple gold medals at the Paralympics and then competed at the London 2012 Olympics. He shot Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013. Reeva, who was 29 when she was murdered, was a law graduate and successful model.

Pistorius was initially sentenced to five years in prison for culpable homicide by a higher court in 2014, but the Supreme Court of Appeal found him guilty of murder in late 2015 after an appeal by prosecutors.

After the High Court conviction, he was sent to jail for six years in 2016. In 2017, the Supreme Court doubled his murder sentence to 13 years and five months.]

Earlier in March, The Guardian reported that because Pistorius had not spent the required time in prison to qualify for parole, his release request had been denied.

However, after Pistorius’ sentence was backdated to July 2016 instead of November 2017, a constitutional court ruled in October that he had served half his sentence by March 21 this year, making him eligible for parole. Went.

–IANS

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