Johnathan Paoli
Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole a decade after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The former Olympian and Paralympian’s bid for parole was granted during his appeal in court on Friday.
The Department of Correctional Services explained that the parole placement decision was taken by the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB), having assessed Pistorius’ profile and other material submitted for the purposes of parole consideration.
DCS spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo, explained that Pistorius will be paroled effective January 5, next year.
“Pistorius was initially convicted of culpable homicide in 2014, but the case went through a number of appeals and was eventually ratified to 13 years and five months in 2017,” he said.
Nxumalo said that Pistorius’s parole placement was in line with Section 73 of the Correctional Services Act and that parole placement forms part of the total rehabilitation programme in correcting offending behaviour and may include continuation of programmes aimed at reintegration whilst in the system of community corrections.
Pistorious is expected to complete the remainder of the sentence in the system of community corrections and will be subjected to supervision in compliance with parole conditions until his sentence expires.
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