Former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been released from the Atteridgeville Correctional Center, a South African jail on parole after practically 11 years.
Famously often known as the “Blade Runner” for his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs, the 37-year-old had fired a number of pictures by means of a rest room door at his girlfriend in 2013, confessing he had mistaken her for a burglar.
The Sandton-born was despatched to prison in October 2014 and can now lead his life underneath stringent measures till his sentence is over in 2029. He was convicted of homicide of his girlfriend in 2015 after an attraction courtroom in South Africa overturned an earlier verdict of culpable murder.
Pistorius was a famend athlete of his time and had a celebrated profession earlier than all of it got here crashing down in 2013.
The South African burst onto the world stage following a gold medal in 200m on the Athens Olympics. He took his brilliance to the subsequent degree on the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when he dominated the 100m, 200m and the 400m class and bagged gold medals in all three occasions.
Pistorius’ rise did not cease at Beijing. He carried his dominance into the London Olympics and claimed two gold medals – one within the 400m class, and the opposite in a 4 x 100 m relay crew occasion.
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