Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday after spending nearly 10 years in prison for murder. It’s the latest turn in the story of the double-amputee athlete who was one of the world’s most admired sporting figures before he killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, by shooting her multiple times through a toilet door at his home.
Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday after spending nearly 10 years in prison for murder. It’s the latest turn in the story of the double-amputee athlete who was one of the world’s most admired sporting figures before he killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp , by shooting her multiple times through a toilet door at his home.
Pistorius, who turned 37 this week, was sent to prison in late 2014 and has been given a second chance at parole at a first hearing in March. That was due to an error made by an appeals court over when Pistorius’ jail sentence officially started and if he’d served the required time. – a charge comparable to manslaughter – for killing Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013. That conviction was overturned, and he was convicted of murder after an appeal by prosecutors. They also appealed against an initial sentence of six years for murder, and Serious offenders in South Africa must serve at least half their sentence to be eligible for parole, which Pistorius has don
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