South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius leaves the Pretoria High Court on June 15, 2016, after the third day of his resentencing hearing for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced on July 6 for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the judge in the High Court in Pretoria said Wednesday at the end of a three-day court hearing. / AFP / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)
Ex-Paralympian, Oscar Pistorius has been released on parole, nearly 11 years after he murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius shot 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp dead through a locked bathroom door on Valentine’s Day in 2013, claiming he mistook her for an intruder when he fired four shots into the bathroom at his Pretoria home.
In a statement, the department of correctional services said “The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is able to confirm that Oscar Pistorius is a parolee, effective from 5 January 2024. He was admitted into the system of Community Corrections and is now at home,”
Prior to receiving a murder sentence, Pistorius served around eight and a half years in prison and seven months in house arrest.
In November, a parole board determined that he may be released after serving more than half of his sentence.
Chioma Kalu
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