Oscar Pistorius: Has Justice Been Served In Nine Years?
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EuroWeekly News ^
| 05 Jan 2024 | John Ensor
Pistorius Released After serving Nine Years For Murder Ex-Paralympian, Oscar Pistorius. Credit: Kastom/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Oscar
Pistorius has been granted parole after serving a nine-year jail term for murdering his girlfriend. On Friday, December 5, Oscar Pistorius, the famed former Paralympic and Olympic runner, was released from prison on parole. The length of his jail term has put South African justice under the spotlight and raises questions about what kind of message this sends out regarding gender-based violence. Pistorius, who was convicted for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was freed after serving nine years of...
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Oscar Pistorius released on parole 11 years after killing Reeva Steenkamp
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BBC ^
| Jan 5 | BBC
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been freed on parole from a South African jail, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Officials confirmed Pistorius was "at home" on Friday morning, having served half of his more than 13-year sentence. Ms
Steenkamp's mother said she accepted the decision to release the former athlete - but added her family was the one "serving a life sentence". Pistorius, now 37, shot Ms Steenkamp multiple times in 2013 through a door. The double amputee later claimed he had mistaken her for a burglar (thief). Pistorius was eventually convicted of murder in 2015 after...
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Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius released from prison after serving 9 years for murder of girlfriend
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MSN ^
| 1/4 | Elizabeth Pritchett
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius was released from prison on parole on Friday after serving nearly nine years for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day in 2013. Pistorius,
once hailed an inspiration as a double-amputee Olympic runner competing against able-bodied athletes, was serving a 13-year sentence at Atteridgeville Correctional Center in the South African capital of Pretoria. Little details surrounding his release were available, but the announcement from the country's Department of Corrections came at around 8:30 a.m. local time, according to The Associated Press. Pistorius was convicted of murder in 2015 and sentenced to...
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Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius to be freed from prison, 10 years after killing girlfriend
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NY Post ^
| 24/11/23
Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world. Department
of Corrections spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said Pistorius would be released from prison on Jan. 5. Pistorius, who turned 37 this week, has been in jail since late 2014 for the Valentine’s Day 2013 killing of model Reeva Steenkamp, although he was released for a period of house arrest in 2015 while one of the numerous appeals in his case was heard....
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South Africa: Oscar Pistorius to Be Released Soon
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Africanews ^
| 3/29
A decade ago, just before Valentine's Day, everything changed on the day he killed his girlfriend.The former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is now halfway through his prison sentence and will soon be set for possible parole. A
committee is meeting in Pretoria on Friday to decide whether to release the 36-year-old former stadium king, who has had both legs amputated and was convicted of the February 2013 murder of Reeva Steenkamp, the South African justice department and prison service said. The decision of the committee, which includes representatives of the prison service, the police and civilians, is expected in the...
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South Africa's Pistorius up for Parole in Girlfriend's Murder
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Channel News Asia ^
| 02 Mar 2023
South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, who killed his girlfriend 10 years ago, will know in about a month whether he will be released on parole, his lawyer said on Thursday (Mar 2). "We
have been advised by the parole board that (the) hearing will take place on the 31st of March, 2023," his lawyer Julian Knight told AFP. "It's an internal process". Pistorius, 36, shot dead Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013 when he fired four times through the bathroom door of his ultra-secure Pretoria house.
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Oscar Pistorius jail term for killing Reeva Steenkamp more than doubled
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BBC ^
| November 24, 2017 | staff
A South African court has increased Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius's jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months. Prosecutors
had argued that the six-year term for murdering Reeva Steenkamp was "shockingly light". *snip* The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein has now given Pistorius the minimum 15 years prescribed for murder in South Africa, less time already served.
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Oscar Pistorius and South Africa's gun obsession
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BBC News ^
| December 5, 2015 | Milton Nkosi
The judgement by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein that convicted Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius of murder sends a message that South Africa does not tolerate the reckless use of guns. As
Judge Eric Leach said when he read the judgment, "not only did he not know who was behind the door, he did not know whether that person in fact constituted any threat to him. "In these circumstances, although he may have been anxious, it is inconceivable that a rational person could have believed he was entitled to fire at this person with a heavy-calibre firearm." One of...
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South Africa's Supreme Court finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder
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msn ^
| 12.03.15
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' conviction for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp has been scaled up to murder from culpable homicide by South Africa's top appeals court. "Blade
Runner" Pistorius could now be sent back to jail for at least 15 years for shooting Steenkamp dead on Valentine's Day 2013. The athlete is expected to be sentenced for the new murder conviction by a lower court at a date still to be determined.
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Oscar Pistorius to Be Released After One Year in Jail
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New York Post ^
| October 15, 2015
Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who shot his girlfriend to death on Valentine’s Day 2013, can leave prison and move to house arrest next week, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Thursday. A parole board at the prison where Pistorius has served nearly a year of his five-year sentence for manslaughter
made the decision. It came after an initial ruling to release the athlete in August was canceled at the last minute after intervention by the justice minister. This time, the board “approved the placement of offender Oscar Pistorius under correctional supervision as from 20 October 2015,” the corrections...
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Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 5 years in prison
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cnn.com ^
From a globally lauded athlete to convicted killer, Oscar Pistorius' fall from grace culminated Tuesday with a five-year sentence in the shooting death of his girlfriend. The
sentence was imposed for the charge of culpable homicide, which in South Africa means a person was killed unintentionally, but unlawfully. Under South African law, he will have to serve at least one-sixth of his sentence -- 10 months -- before he can ask to be considered for parole.
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Oscar Pistorius Verdict: Steenkamp Family Protest
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BBC News ^
| September 12, 2014
12 September 2014 Oscar Pistorius Verdict: Steenkamp Family Protest The parents of Reeva Steenkamp say "justice was not served" after South African athlete Oscar Pistorius was acquitted of murdering their daughter. June
and Barry Steenkamp told NBC News of their "disbelief" that the court had believed Pistorius's version of events. Judge Thokozile Masipa found him guilty of the lesser charge of culpable homicide, saying the state had failed to prove he intended to kill. Pistorius has been allowed bail ahead of sentencing on 13 October. Judge Masipa said the athlete had acted "negligently" when he shot his girlfriend through a...
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Judge finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide
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AP VIA FOX NEWS ^
| 09/12/2014 | AP VIA FOX NEWS
DEVELOPING: Judge finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide, or negligent killing, in shooting of girlfriend.
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Oscar Pistorius is found 'negligent' but not guilty of murder
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LA Times ^
| September 11, 2014, 12:15 PM|Reporting from Pretoria, South Africa | Robyn Dixon
oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympian who shot and killed his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day last year, was found "negligent" in the killing Thursday, but was acquitted of murder charges before the court recessed for the day without a full verdict.. Pistorius bent over and sobbed. At
the hearing's lunch break, relatives and supporters crowded around him, and his uncle, Arnold Pistorius, one of his closest mentors, hugged him fervently. The rulings stunned many South Africans, including legal analysts, igniting speculation that Judge Thokozile Masipa had made a mistake that could provide a basis for an appeal. “With all due...
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Judgement day for Oscar Pistorius [Verdict in hours]
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Reuters Africa ^
| 09/11/14 | ED CROPLEY
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - After 41 days of tears, anguish and at times gruesome testimony in the Pretoria High Court, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in athletics, will learn this week whether he will spend the next 25 years behind bars. In
a fitting reminder of how South Africa has changed in the 20 years since apartheid, the fate of Pistorius, a wealthy white man from privileged roots, rests in the hands of a 66-year-old black woman from Soweto, Judge Thokozile Masipa. Throughout the on-off six-month trial, Masipa - only the second black woman...
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