Pistorius going home
Oscar Pistorius will be released under correctional supervision next week, the department of correctional services announced.
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius will be going home on parole next Tuesday.
The correctional services parole board approved his release in Pretoria on Thursday, said correctional services spokesperson Manelisi Wolela.
He said the board at the Kgosi Mampuru II prison considered all submissions, including Pistorius’ profile report, submissions of his family and the directives of the parole review board.
The parole board said: “Upon careful consideration of the facts placed before the parole board as contained in the G326 (profile report) submitted by the case management committee in terms of section 42 (2)/* 79 of the Correctional Services Act of 1998, the parole board decided to place Mr Oscar Pistorius under correctional supervision as from 20 October 2015 until 20 October 2019.”
Pistorius was given his correctional supervision conditions which included continued psychotherapy and prohibitions in line with the Fire Arms Control Act, said Wolela.
An earlier decision to release him on parole in August was reversed by Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha, who ruled that proper procedures had not been followed in the approval. He referred the matter back to the parole board.
Pistorius was sentenced to prison for five years in October last year for having killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp when he shot her through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home. His defence that he mistook her for an intruder.
He qualified for parole as he had served a sixth of his sentence.
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