Pistorius parole denied
It has been just over 10 years since the paralympian shot and killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Oscar Pistorius (36) faced the parole board today with hopes of an early release.
However, the board has denied his application.
In a media statement, the Department of Correctional Services said that Pistorius had not completed the minimum detention period.
“The correctional supervision and parole board granted inmate Pistorius a further profile for August 2024. The reason provided is that the inmate did not complete the minimum detention period as ruled by the Supreme Court of Appeal (as per the clarification provided on March 28).”
Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013.
Earlier today, Steenkamp’s mother, June, said that the family was opposing the parole as they felt he had not been truthful in his account of the evening he killed their daughter.
“We don’t believe his story,” she said as she arrived at the hearing at the correctional services facility in Atteridgeville.
Pistorius shot four times through the bathroom door of his Pretoria east home, killing Steenkamp.
He pled not guilty, denying that he killed Steenkamp in rage, but claimed that he mistook her for an intruder.
On September 12, 2014, Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide and reckless endangerment, and handed a prison sentence of five years, with a concurrent three-year suspended sentence for the reckless endangerment charge.
He remained in prison only until October 2015, when he was released to house arrest, based on good behaviour.
Soon after the original ruling, prosecutors appealed the ruling. By unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal in front of five Supreme Court judges, the culpable homicide ruling was overturned and he was found guilty of murder on November 3, 2015.
Pistorius was once again jailed in July 2016.
In November 2017, his six-year jail sentence was extended to 15 years after the National Prosecuting Authority said that the previous ruling was “shockingly lenient”.
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