conditional release is granted to the ex-Paralympic champion, convicted of the murder of his partner

This time, it is accepted. After a first request for early release rejected in March 2023, former South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius finally obtained conditional release, the country’s prison administration announced on Friday, November 24. She specifies that this measure will be effective “from January 5, 2024”. The decision comes ten years later the murder of the athlete’s girlfriend, in a case that had captivated the planet.

On the night of February 13-14, 2013, Oscar Pistorius shot dead his partner, model Reeva Steenkamp, ​​29, shooting four times through the bathroom door of her bedroom in his ultra-secure Pretoria home.

Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter following his first trial in 2014. The prosecution considered the sentence too lenient and called for it to be reclassified as murder. The athlete was sentenced on appeal to six years in prison in 2016. The following year, the Supreme Court of Appeal finally sentenced him to 13 years and five months in prison.