Athlete Oscar Pistorius denied parole

evacuation board, A group of prison service representatives, police and civilians made the decision in a behind-the-scenes hearing at the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Center in Pretoria.

According to a statement from DCS, the reason for the decision was “the prisoner has not completed the minimum period of detention according to the sentence”. Supreme Court (According to the statement made on March 28, 2023).”

The board is marked August 2024 The document was detailed as a date to celebrate another negotiation process on the Pistorius case.

At the hearing held this Friday, the victim’s mother, june campmade oral and written statements.

Before accessing the session, mother declared herself “too nervous” and predicted that it would be “very difficult to be in the same room” with Pistorius.

When asked by journalists whether she denied the athlete’s parole, June Steenkamp replied: “Yeah, I don’t believe his story.”

“is-is very traumatic experience (to parents). As you can imagine, it’s painful. “I have to see Oscar Pistorius again this morning,” the family’s lawyer, Tania Koen, told reporters before the trial began.

“He is your daughter’s murderer. I don’t think I should be released. I feel no regrets. He wasn’t rehabilitated because if he had, he would have confessed and told the true story of what happened that night.”

Pistorius, 36, applied last year. Pretoria High Court Forcing prison officials to hold a parole hearing, claiming to have served more than half of his sentence for Steenkamp’s murder.

Criminals serving half their sentences under South African law, parole Candidates, Something Pistorius claimed to have accomplished.

The athlete made sure that he did everything in his power to rehabilitate and show himself. full regret, according to the statement sent to the court.

After a case that attracted worldwide media attention, Pistorius initially Convicted in October 2014 up to five years in prison for willful manslaughter, considering the judge Thokozil Masipa He said that there were extenuating circumstances, but the prosecutor’s office objected to this decision.

in November 2015South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the conviction found the athlete guilty of willful manslaughter and found him guilty of murder and sent the case back to the first-instance court for re-sentencing.

In July 2016, Judge Masipa appointed Pistorius six years in prison for murder.

However, upon the objection of the prosecutor’s office once again, the Court of Cassation, In November 2017, he increased the sentence to fifteen years.the minimum amount required by South African law in cases of homicide, except in exceptional circumstances.

Local media reports reported that 2017 was the date that the Supreme Court finally considered as the starting point to set this date. the athlete was not halfway through his penaltyAs detailed in a statement released by the court this week.

In practice, this sentence amounted to thirteen years and five months’ imprisonment, and the time Pistorius – one term in prison – was ignored. bail and house arrest– He was already in jail.

Last July, the Department of Correctional Services confirmed that a meeting took place between Pistorius and Steenkamp’s parents last month. was part of the athlete’s rehabilitation and that applying for parole is a requirement.

Pistorius is serving a prison sentence for possessing. Steenkamp was shot dead in his Pretoria home On Valentine’s Day 2013, when he was at the height of his fame and amassing a fortune in his sports career.

He shot her four times through the closed bathroom door. and during the trial he failed to argue that he panicked when he mistook Steenkamp for a burglar entering the house through the bathroom window.

Born with a genetic problem that caused her parents to decide amputate both legs below the knees Pistorius gained worldwide fame by running at the 2012 London Olympics when he was 11 months old. two carbon prostheses.