The athlete of South Africa Oscar Pistoriuswas convicted of murdering his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in 2013, He will have a hearing this Friday that will determine if he will be released on parole.local media report.
In a statement dated Monday, the South African Department of Correctional Services said the parole board would consider Pistorius’ case and decide “whether or not the prisoner is suitable for social integration.”
The hearing will be held after the South African Constitutional Court ruled in October that the athlete was eligible for conditional release.
Pistorius, 36, He asked the Constitutional Court to declare him eligible for conditional release.after it was rejected in March.
The athlete Argued that his prison time was unfairly increased as the minimum required to qualify for that measure, which represents a “violation” of their “fundamental rights.”
Pistorius asked the Pretoria High Court in 2022 to order a parole hearingby keeping him having served more than half of his sentence, a requirement under South African law to be a candidate for that measure.
But on March 31, the parole board concluded that “the prisoner has not completed the minimum period of detention” and marked August 2024 for another deliberation process.
However, the Constitutional Court confirmed this October that “no later than March 21, 2023, the plaintiff served half of his sentence“.
After the trial garnered worldwide media attention, Pistorius was initially sentenced in October 2014 to five years in prison for manslaughter.when the justice considered that there were mitigating circumstances, but the Prosecutor’s Office appealed the decision.
In November 2015, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned that verdict and found him guilty of murder.which referred the case back to a lower court where, in July 2016, Pistorius was sentenced to six years in prison for murder.
However, after another appeal by the Prosecutor’s Office, the Supreme Court of Appeal increased the sentence in November 2017 to fifteen years, the minimum contemplated by law in cases of murder except in exceptional circumstances.
That date, 2017, was finally considered by the Supreme Court of Appeal as the starting point to determine last March that the athlete had not yet reached half of his sentence.
In practice, that sentence meant thirteen years and five months in prison.after deducting the time Pistorius – who spent a period on bail and under house arrest – spent in prison.
Pistorius Sentencing for the shooting death of Steenkamp at his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day 2013when he was at the peak of his fame and amassed a fortune in his sports career.
He shot her four times through the closed bathroom door and, during the trial, unsuccessfully tried to argue that she panicked when she mistook Steenkamp for a burglar who entered the house through the bathroom window.
Born with a genetic problem that led his parents to decide to amputate both of his legs below the knee when he was eleven months old, Pistorius achieved worldwide fame by running in the London Olympic Games in 2012 with two carbon prostheses.
Source: La Verdad
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