The prison authorities of South Africa The famous South African athlete was granted parole this Friday Oscar Pistoriusin prison since 2014 for having killed his girlfriend, the model, a year earlier Reeva Steenkamp.
“The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) confirms the parole for Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius, effective January 5, 2024,” said that institution in a statement, after a closed-door hearing was held at the Atteridgeville prisonand Pretoria.
On the night of February 13, 2013, the athlete killed his partner, the model Reeva Steenkamp29, shooting four times through the bathroom door of his room, in his residence in Pretoria.
Arrested early the next morning, he denied having killed the young woman in a fit of rage, and claimed to have mistaken her for a thief.
‘Blade Runner’as he was known for his carbon prosthetics, was sentenced to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after a first trial in 2014.