The South African former Olympic sprinter and Paralympian murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013.
Offenders in South Africa convicted of serious crimes must serve at least half their sentence before being considered for parole. Pistorius has done that after taking into account the time he served in jail from late 2014 while the appeals in his case were heard.
Oscar Pistorius claimed he shot 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp, pictured, by mistake with his licensed 9 mm pistol because he thought she was a dangerous intruder.Pistorius’ parole could be denied, where the board usually asks the offender to reapply at a later stage. There have been glimpses of his life in prison, with reports claiming he had at one point grown a beard, gained weight and taken up smoking and was unrecognizable from the elite athlete who competed against able-bodied runners on his carbon-fiber blades at the 2012 London Olympics.
There have also been flashes of trouble. Pistorius sustained an injury in an altercation with another inmate over a public telephone in 2017. A year earlier, Pistorius received treatment for injuries to his wrists, which his family denied were a result of him harming himself.but a hearing that year was canceled partly because he hadn’t yet met with Barry and June Steenkamp in a process known as a victim-offender dialogue.
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