Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is eligible for parole and has applied to be released from prison 10 years after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home.
for murder in 2017, again after a prosecution appeal against a lighter sentence.
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.
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