Oscar Pistorius released from jail on parole, 11 years after murdering girlfriend
South African former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been released on parole and is now at home, South Africa’s correctional services department said on Friday, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius – dubbed “Blade Runner” for his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs – shot the 29-year-old model dead through a locked bathroom door on Valentine’s Day in 2013, in a crime that shocked a nation long inured to violence against women.
He has repeatedly said he mistook Ms Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired four shots into the bathroom at his Pretoria home, and he made multiple appeals against his conviction on that basis.
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