Parole board to consider Pistorius’ parole application today
Oscar Pistorius has served half his sentence and faces a second chance at parole after he was ruled ineligible for early release in March.
Oscar Pistorius is hoping to hear if he will be home for Christmas.
The parole board will today decide in Pretoria at the Atteridgeville Correctional Services if and when he will be released.
Pistorius was sentenced in 2017 for killing his supermodel girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
He was denied parole earlier this year as the board believed he hadn’t served half of his 13-year sentence.
However, the Constitutional Court in October ruled that Pistorius had become eligible for parole in March – after having served half of his sentence of 13 years and five months.
Department of Correctional Services national spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo says all inmates have the right to parole.
“The parole board will decide today on the conditions, as well if it is granted after reviewing reports from specialists like welfare workers,” adds Nxumalo.
It is a decade since Pistorius shot Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day.
Steenkamp’s mother, June, told the media she would not oppose the application.
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