Oscar Pistorius won’t be launched early from his 13-year-five-month jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a parole board has determined.
The former Olympic and Paralympic athlete, referred to as the Blade Runner, had utilized for parole after serving half of his jail time period.
Earlier, Reeva’s mom June Steenkamp advised Sky News that Pistorius was “not remorseful or rehabilitated” forward of the listening to.
A parole board spokesperson confirmed he may reapply for early launch in August 2024.
Tania Koen, a lawyer for the Steenkamp household, advised reporters: “I can verify that parole has been denied, they’ll reconvene in a yr to rethink him once more and we do not know the explanations but (for the denial).
“I’ve just received a call from the parole board… It is a huge sense of relief for June.”
Pistorius, 36, was convicted of murdering his girlfriend within the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013.
He has served half of his 13-year sentence and attended a gathering with Steenkamp’s father as a part of South Africa’s restorative justice programme final yr.
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The South African athlete began his bid for parole in August final yr after claiming he had “done everything in [his] power to rehabilitate”.
A listening to had beforehand been cancelled as a result of Pistorius had not met with Ms Steenkamp’s mother and father, however in June 2022, The Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp Foundation confirmed {that a} assembly with Pistorius and Barry Steenkamp had taken place.
Prior to the homicide, Pistorius had been finest identified for his sporting prowess, profitable gold on the Paralympics and making historical past as the primary double amputee to compete within the Olympics.
But all that modified on 14 February 2013 when he shot and killed his girlfriend in a toilet at his house in Pretoria, South Africa.
Pistorius has at all times insisted the taking pictures was a mistake, saying he thought an intruder was in the home and he feared for his security.
He fired 4 photographs by a locked rest room door, hitting Ms Steenkamp, 29, within the head, hip and arm.
Pistorius claimed in court docket it was solely when he battered down the door with a cricket bat that he realised who was behind it.
But the prosecution mentioned the homicide was premeditated and Pistorius shot Ms Steenkamp after an argument.
Pistorius was initially not discovered responsible of homicide and was as a substitute convicted of culpable murder (the equal of a manslaughter cost within the UK).
He was sentenced to 5 years in 2014, and was finally launched from jail and positioned underneath home arrest.
A yr later, that conviction was overturned when South Africa’s supreme court docket of attraction discovered him responsible of homicide.
He was sentenced to 6 years – which was then elevated to 13 years and 5 months after the sentence was deemed “shockingly too lenient” in an attraction.
Source: information.sky.com”