A board denied parole to the athlete on Friday Oscar Pistoriuswas convicted of murdering his model girlfriend in 2013 Reeva Steenkampas reported by the South African Department of Correctional Services (DCS).
The parole board, which includes representatives from the prison service, police and civilians, made the decision at a closed-door hearing in Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Center in Pretoria.
According to a DCS statement, the reason for the decision was that “the inmate has not completed the minimum period of detention as determined by the Supreme Court of Appeals (as clarified on March 28, 2023).”
The board marked August 2024 as the date for another deliberation process in the Pistorius case, the document said.
Reeva Steenkamp’s mother: “It was a very traumatic experience”
At the hearing this Friday, the victim’s mother, June Steenkamp, presented written and oral statements. Before agreeing to the session, the mother declared herself “very nervous” and revealed that it was “very difficult to be in the same room” with Pistorius.
Journalists asked if he was rejecting the athlete’s parole, June Steenkamp replied: “Yes, I don’t believe his story.” “It is a very traumatic experience (for the parents). As you can imagine, it is painful. Having to see Oscar Pistorius again this morning,” said the family’s lawyer, Koen askedto reporters before the hearing began.
“He killed his son. I don’t think he should be released. I feel like he didn’t show remorse. He wasn’t rehabilitated because, if he was, he would have confessed and told the true story of what happened that night. ,” stressed the lawyer.
Pistorius asked for parole
Pistorius, 36, applied last year to High Court of Pretoria to force prison officials to hold a parole hearing, saying he had served more than half of his sentence for killing Steenkamp.
Under South African law, offenders who serve half of their sentences are eligible for parole, a milestone Pistorius says he has reached.
The athlete insisted that he did everything in his power to rehabilitate himself and showed full remorse, according to a statement sent to the court.
A long and media trial for the murder of her lover
Following a trial that attracted worldwide media attention, Pistorius was initially sentenced in October 2014 to five years in prison for culpable homicide, as considered by the judge. Thokozile Kick with mitigating circumstances, although the Prosecutor’s Office appealed against that decision.
In November 2015, the South African High Court of Appeal overturned the athlete’s manslaughter conviction and found him guilty of murder, sending the case back to the trial court for a retrial.
In July 2016, Magistrate Masipa sentenced Pistorius to six years in prison for murder. After another appeal by the Prosecutor’s Office, however, the Supreme Court of Appeal raised the sentence in November 2017 to fifteen years, the minimum contemplated by South African law in murder cases except in exceptional circumstances.
In practice, That sentence meant thirteen years and five months in prison.by reducing the time Pistorius – who spent time on bail and under house arrest – spent in prison.
Meeting Reeva’s parents
Last July, the Department of Correctional Services confirmed that a meeting between Pistorius and Steenkamp’s parents had taken place last month, a meeting that was part of the athlete’s rehabilitation and a requirement to apply for parole.
Pistorius serving time for shooting Steenkamp to death at his home in Pretoria on Valentine’s Day 2013, when he was at the height of his fame and amassed wealth from his sporting career.
He shot her four times through the closed bathroom door and, during the trial, unsuccessfully tried to argue that he panicked when he mistook Steenkamp for a burglar who entered the apartment through the bathroom window.
Born with a genetic problem that caused his parents to amputate both legs below the knee when he was 11 months old, Pistorius achieved world fame by running in the 2012 London Olympics with two carbon prostheses.
Source: La Verdad
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