BREAKING: Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was denied parole more than 10 years after killing his girlfriend.
— Former Olympic runner and Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius was again denied parole on Friday. South Africa's parole board issued the ruling, keeping Pistorius jailed more than 10 years after he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
"We don't believe his story," June Steenkamp told reporters as her car pulled into the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre in Pretoria on Friday. A picture taken on January 26, 2013 shows Olympian sprinter Oscar Pistorius posing next to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg.Pistorius maintained throughout that it was a terrible accident and that he had mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder. He was ultimately convicted of murder after prosecutors successfully appealed an initial conviction for culpable homicide, which is comparable to manslaughter.
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