Six-time Paralympic champion and Olympian Oscar Pistorius will stay in jail for one more yr and a half after South Africa’s Correctional Supervision and Parole Board decided on Friday that he has not served sufficient time for the 2013 homicide of former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius’s parole was denied, regardless of him being eligible for an early launch on March 31.
JUST IN: Oscar Pistorius has been refused parole – on the premise that he had not served a “minimal detention interval”. His parole can be thought of once more in August 2024. pic.twitter.com/9cVgoFWQQi
— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) March 31, 2023
Steenkamp’s dad and mom, who’ve stated they nonetheless don’t consider Pistorius’ account of their daughter’s killing, fought in opposition to Pistorius’s early parole; Pistorius has solely served half of his sentence. (Pistorius was initially sentenced to 5 years for culpable murder in 2014, however the case went by a number of appeals earlier than he was finally sentenced to fifteen years for homicide in 2017.)
Pistorius claimed he shot and killed Steenkamp by their lavatory door within the early morning hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013 after mistaking her for an intruder. The Steenkamp household believes Pistorius deliberately killed her after a late-night argument, and needs him to stay in jail.
Throughout his 2016 trial, he informed the courtroom that he liked Steenkamp and by no means supposed to kill her.
In keeping with South Africa’s Division of Corrections, Pistorius must serve one other yr and a half earlier than he can apply for parole once more in August 2024.
Pistorius had a historic athletics profession, turning into the primary amputee to win a non-disabled world observe medal, on the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. On the 2012 London Olympics, Pistorius was the primary double-leg amputee participant within the Athletics Program.
