Oscar Pistorius, the disgraced South African Paralympian who murdered his girlfriend on Valentine's Day 10 years ago, was granted parole at a hearing on Friday and will be released.
A double amputee sprinter known as the "Blade Runner" for his prosthetic legs, Pistorius, 37, was convicted of fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp four times through a locked bathroom door at his home in Pretoria in 2013.
Pistorius was told at a hearing in Pretoria, the administrative capital where he has been held, that he will be released on Jan. 5, 2024.
A model and law graduate, Steenkamp was 29. Tania Koen, a lawyer who has represented the Steenkamps throughout the parole process and Pistorius' appeals, confirmed to NBC News that parole was granted.
South Africa's Correctional Services department said in a statement that the parole board had made its decision after assessing Pistorius' profile and deciding that he had a "positive support system." He may be subject to rehabilitation programs aimed at reintegrating him with society, the statement said.
Wtf....her poor family.
Let's have a few details on this:
He claims he woke up at night, heard noises in the bathroom, thought it was an intruder and then didn't call the police or check on his live-in-girlfriend who should have been sleeping next to him, but proceeded to fire four shots through the locked bathroom door without warning, then broke down the door with a baseball bat and found his dead girlfriend. Totally reasonable story, right?
That's what you do if you hear noises in the bathroom at night and your partner is not in bed next to you. He totally didn't ambush and shoot her on purpose. What a tragic accident /s
You know what I think? They had a fight. She fled and locked herself in the bathroom. He shot her on purpose and when he didn't hear anything after that he broke down the door to see if she was really dead.