Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp, a mannequin, within the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013 (AP Photo)
Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp, a mannequin, within the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, firing 4 occasions by means of the lavatory door of his extremely-safe Pretoria home, in a killing that shocked the world.
Former South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp 10 years in the past, can be set a attainable parole date Friday after his software is reviewed.
The parole board mentioned in an announcement Monday it “will be considering the profile of Oscar Pistorius on Friday, 24 November 2023”.
It will “decide whether the inmate is suitable or not for social reintegration”, and set a date for launch within the occasion parole is granted, the board added.
In March, Pistorius’s first parole request was rejected after the Department of Correctional Services mentioned he had not accomplished the minimal detention interval required to be let loose.
Prisoners in South Africa are routinely eligible for parole consideration after serving half of their sentence.
Pistorius had been thought to have served greater than half, having began his time period in 2014.
But after having pursued a number of appeals of his preliminary conviction, authorities decided their rely from his final conviction, which fell wanting half.
The Constitutional Court contradicted this course of final month ruling that the rely should begin from the date of the primary occasion an inmate was put behind bars.
Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp, a mannequin, within the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, firing 4 occasions by means of the lavatory door of his extremely-safe Pretoria home, in a killing that shocked the world.
Known worldwide because the “Blade Runner” for his carbon-fibre prosthetics, Pistorius grew to become the primary double amputee to race within the Olympics, competing on the 2012 London Games.
Arrested within the early hours again in February 2013, he had pleaded not responsible and denied killing Steenkamp in a rage, saying he mistook her for a burglar.
He was first discovered responsible of manslaughter in 2014 and handed a 5-years’ sentence in a televised trial.
Public prosecutors appealed the choice calling for a reclassification of homicide and extra hefty sentencing that noticed him convicted in 2016 and sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2017.
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