The nation’s prisons division mentioned in a press release that the Division of Correctional Providers (is) capable of verify that Oscar Pistorius is a parolee, successfully from 5 January 2024.

Johannesburg: In a big improvement, former Paralympian from South Africa Oscar Pistorius was on Friday launched from jail on parole, practically 11 years after the homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day. Often known as the ‘Blade Runner’ for his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs, Oscar Pistorius had shot his 29-year-old girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp lifeless by a locked rest room door on Valentine’s Day in 2013.

Nonetheless, Oscar Pistorius had repeatedly mentioned that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired 4 photographs into the lavatory at his Pretoria dwelling, and he made a number of appeals in opposition to his conviction on that foundation.

The nation’s prisons division mentioned in a press release that the Division of Correctional Providers (is) capable of verify that Oscar Pistorius is a parolee, successfully from 5 January 2024. It mentioned Oscar Pistorius was admitted into the system of Neighborhood Corrections and is now at dwelling.

Aged 37, Oscar Pistorius has spent about eight and a half years in jail in addition to seven months underneath dwelling arrest earlier than he was sentenced on homicide expenses. Earlier, the parole board in November determined he may very well be freed after finishing greater than half his sentence.

Within the meantime, Reeva’s mom June mentioned in a press release: “There can by no means be justice if the one you love is rarely coming again, and no period of time served will convey Reeva again.”

“We, who stay behind, are those serving a life sentence,” June Steenkamp mentioned, including her solely need was to be allowed to stay in peace after Pistorius’ launch on parole.