{"id":297348,"date":"2023-11-24T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=297348"},"modified":"2023-11-24T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:54:49","slug":"oscar-pistorius-granted-parole-nearly-11-years-after-murder-of-reeva-steenkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/nba\/oscar-pistorius-granted-parole-nearly-11-years-after-murder-of-reeva-steenkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius granted parole nearly 11 years after murder of Reeva Steenkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple-time Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on parole, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The parole board has set his release for January 5 2024.<\/p>\n

Pistorius, now 37, shot Steenkamp multiple times through a bathroom door at their family home in Pretoria, South Africa on Valentine’s Day in 2013. He later claimed he had mistook her for a burglar, adding that he feared for his safety.<\/p>\n

The prosecution argued it was a premeditated attack after the couple had gotten into an argument. Pistorius was initially convicted of culpable homicide, the equivalent of a manslaughter charge in the UK, but that conviction was overturned when South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal later found him guilty of murder.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to 13 years and five months in prison but will be granted parole one month shy of 11 years.<\/p>\n

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