This Friday, Oscar Pistorius was anticipated to attend an application listening to, within the hopes of being thought-about for parole.
Instead, the convicted former Paralympian will proceed his jail sentence behind bars after his application was mysteriously eliminated from the roll.
Oscar Pistorius is serving a 13-year-and-five-month sentence for the homicide of his mannequin girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2014.
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OSCAR PISTORIUS PAROLE APPLICATION UPDATE
According to Beeld, Oscar Pistorius was meant to seem within the Pretoria High Court this week as a part of a parole application listening to.
According to South African regulation, offenders grow to be eligible for parole after serving half their sentence. The parole listening to doesn’t essentially imply the offender might be granted an early launch. It does imply that the offender might be thought-about.
However, the publication stories that Pistorius’s lawyer Julian Knight acknowledged that the parole application was eliminated from the roll “in agreement with the Department of Correctional Services”.
Knight supplied no different rationalization apart from that he could be releasing an announcement “later this week”.
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He additionally declined to touch upon whether or not Oscar Pistorius will reapply for his parole listening to in 2023. According to Correctional Services, that is the date Pistorius would formally grow to be eligible for parole
According to Tania Koen, the lawyer of Reeva’s dad and mom Barry and June, the household was not made conscious of the developments.
Koen advised Beeld that they had been “just as in the dark” as the general public.
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MIX-UP OVER PAROLE ELIGIBILITY DATES
Prior to the information of his parole application being successfully scrapped, Oscar Pistorius was finally hoping to get an early launch.
According to calculations made by his authorized workforce, they imagine Pistorius turned eligible for parole in February 2021. However, the Atteridge jail, the place he spent the vast majority of his sentence, claims that Pistorius will solely grow to be eligible in March 2023.
Pistorius was convicted of culpable murder in October 2014. This was later upgraded to homicide in December 2015. He was handed a six-year jail sentence. However, the Supreme Court of Appeal elevated his jail time period to 13 years and 5 months following an unsuccessful attraction in November 2017.
According to News24, Pistorius’s authorized workforce filed an order in August to drive the chairperson of the parole board at Atteridgeville jail to “convene a parole hearing” for him “within 30 days following the granting of this order”.
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LIFE BEHIND BARS
Ahead of Oscar Pistorius’s parole application plea, officers supplied perception into his life behind bars.
The 35-year-old has reportedly been retaining himself busy by becoming a member of a guide membership, working as a cleaner, and being allotted as a tractor driver, in accordance with his unit supervisor whom News24 refers to as a Mrs Makgatho.
She advised the publication of Pistorius: “He is a trustworthy individual who can defuse tense situations.”
She added that he was “ready to be re-integrated into society and will be a positive influence in the community”. This after she claims he reportedly attended his really helpful programmes as a part of his sentence.
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Images through YouTube screenshot: M-Net/’My Name Is Reeva’
Oscar Pistorius additionally met with Reeva Steenkamp’s father, Barry, in June 2022. This, as a part of his rehabilitation by a programme known as the “Victim Offender Dialogue”.
However, Barry claimed that Oscar Pistorius didn’t supply him the closure he was anticipating
He stated M-Net documentary My Name Is Reeva final month: “You arrive there thinking you’re going to say this and that. But it doesn’t work out that way. It’s just a sad, sad thing.
“I asked him certain questions…and I expected different answers. He gave me his truth, but I didn’t get my truth”.
Family lawyer Tania Koen added: “I don’t believe Oscar’s version, and I don’t believe he told Barry the truth”.
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