Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner, is set to be released from prison after serving nearly nine years of a murder sentence for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
He will be living under strict conditions at a family home.
Pistorius was approved for parole in November, and this will be the second time he has applied for it.
The South African Department of Corrections has not disclosed the exact details of his release but emphasized that he will not receive ‘special treatment’ due to his public profile.
Initially, he is expected to reside at his uncle’s mansion in Pretoria, where he previously lived during his murder trial and a period of house arrest from 2015 to 2016.
Pistorius will be under correctional supervision until his murder sentence of 13 years and five months expires in December 2029, as South African law allows serious offenders to be eligible for parole after serving at least half of their sentence.
Pistorius has consistently claimed that he shot Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was an intruder. Prosecutors argued that he intentionally killed her during an argument.
Steenkamp’s family did not oppose his parole application but expressed doubts about his rehabilitation.
Pistorius’ parole conditions include restrictions on leaving his home, a ban on alcohol consumption, mandatory anger management and violence against women programs, community service, regular meetings with parole officials, unannounced visits by authorities, and a prohibition on speaking to the media until his sentence ends.
South Africa does not use monitoring devices on paroled offenders, relying instead on close monitoring by appointed department officials. Violating parole conditions could result in Pistorius being sent back to jail.
“mandatory anger management and violence against women programs…”
Oh god, I would’ve asked just to be hanged instead 🤦🏼😆
On a serious note though:
1) This guy was long rumoured to be short tempered. There were allegedly a few dust ups in the Olympic change rooms a year or two before the shooting. Also another woman in South Africa who settled out of court after Pistorius pushed her through a glass door in a Johannesburg nightclub. All kept quiet because he was an important celebrity at the time.
2) His ex girlfriend and best friend testified in court about how reckless he was with his gun, firing it at “robots” (what South Africans called traffic lights) and accidentally letting it go off once in a crowded restaurant.
3) A lot of testimony at the trial confirmed he was an insanely jealous boyfriend. Reeva’s cellphone messages presented in court spoke about him having a very public temper tantrum at her friend’s wedding because he’d seen her talking to another man. She explicitly said in one of her messages, “you scare me sometimes”.
4) Three seperate neighbours testified they’d heard both male and female screaming and shouting consistent with a domestic altercation prior to the gun shots.
5) Pistorius claims he heard a bump in the night and immediately picked up his gun and started shooting without thinking to check whether Reeva was still in the bed, which is ludicrous.
6) Police on scene found Reeva had locked herself in a toilet stall and Pistorius had attempted to smash the door down with a cricket bat. This would be consistent with domestic violence/altercation, but Pistorius claimed he only started smashing the door AFTER the shooting when he was trying to get in to save her life. The forensics teams couldn’t determine for sure which scenario was true.
7) Phone records show immediately after the shooting, while Reeva was still bleeding out on the floor, Pistorius first phoned his rich uncle, then a lawyer and only THEN an ambulance.
8) The court of public opinion (and anyone with any common sense) could already see this murder for what it was, but the South African government had a bee in its bonnet about showing how liberal they are and ensuring Pistorius was given fair treatment, so he was very much handled with kid gloves and given the benefit of the doubt every time there was any sort of ambiguity in the case. They appointed an inexperienced judge who “reluctantly” convicted him of culpable homicide (manslaughter), with the effect that he would almost certainly face no actual prison time. Due to public outrage a higher court thankfully overturned this later and upgraded the charge and punishment (although I personally still think 13 years for murder is too lenient).
Here’s hoping he does something stupid during his parole 🤞
Guy’s an utter scumbag who got away with bad behaviour all his life because people felt sorry for his disability. The ultimate crybully.
Mollycoddled by the system, with ‘Rules for Thee, and Not for Me’ scenario!
This is why I can’t stand the false presentations of celebrity personalities, especially the sports celebrities!
Both are elevated by the MSM and treated as some type of earthly god(s).
The REAL heroes like Willie Apiata are the Veterans who served under the then-presented facade of ‘protecting freedom and democracy’, but many of us have now awakened to the fact that this is a false pretense, and that most of the wars were fought in proxy for Zionism and the Greater State of Israel’!
As Veterans, we will now only protect NZ and our families, but if recalled we will NEVER deal with J3wi$h-inspired covert proxy wars ever again. And-
There are 4,500 of us here in NZ with Firearms Licences ready to do just that in the event of an invasion or a crysalis exponet that threatens NZ!