Athlete Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison after killing his girlfriend

• Athlete Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison.
• He was convicted of murdering his girlfriend.
• The victim’s mother makes an unexpected decision.

South American athlete Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole.

This comes 10 years after he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death through a bathroom door in their home in South Africa, an incident that shocked the world.

Pistorius will be released from prison on January 5, explained the spokesman for the Department of Penitentiary Institutions, Singabakho Nxumalo.

He will only be able to leave the Pretoria area, where he is preparing to settle, with permission from the authorities.

Conditional release

Oscar Pistorius will have to attend anger management sessions and perform community service, Nxumalo said.

He will be on parole for five years.

«Probation does not mean the end of the sentence. It is part of the sentence. It only means that the prisoner will complete the sentence outside of a penal institution,” Nxumalo said.

The runner, who turned 37 this week, has been in prison since late 2014 for the murder of the model on Valentine’s Day the previous year.

Oscar Pistorius received a 13-year sentence

In 2015, Pistorius spent time under house arrest while one of the multiple appeals in his case was resolved.

Ultimately, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 13 years and five months in prison.

In South Africa, those convicted of serious crimes must serve at least half of their sentence to be eligible for parole.

This incident became a media sensation that shocked South Africa.

Oscar Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp

Pistorius was at the peak of his career and one of the most admired athletes in the world when he murdered Reeva Steenkamp.

On the morning of Valentine’s Day 2013, the famous sprinter called the police to report his girlfriend’s death.

He shot her several times in the bathroom of his Pretoria mansion in the early hours of the morning with a 9 mm caliber pistol, for which he had a permit.

According to The Associated Press, Pistorius said that he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder.

His parole was initially denied

An appeals court ruled in March that he was ineligible for parole, which was due to an error about the date his sentence officially began.

Pistorius was initially found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for Steenkamp’s death.

Prosecutors appealed and the sentence was changed to simple homicide. At the same time, the sentence was extended from six years to 13 years and five months.

As already mentioned, Pistorius testified at his trial that he killed Steenkamp by mistake, convinced that a dangerous intruder had hidden in his bathroom.

Authorities say it was a rage killing

Prosecutors alleged that Reeva Steenkamp, ​​a model and reality TV star, had locked herself in the bathroom during a late-night argument and Pistorius killed her in a fit of rage.

The victim’s father, Barry Steenkamp, ​​died in September. Her mother, June Steenkamp, ​​did not oppose parole.

Both parents contributed to a documentary that explored the events that occurred in 2013.

There were very different theories about what happened that night.

A tribute to Reeva Steenkamp

The documentary shows how the lives of June and Barry Steenkamp have changed since the murder of her daughter.

According to infobae, the documentary also serves as a tribute to the late model.

With the help of her inner circle, the documentary reviews her private life and reveals what her childhood was like.

It will show her great passion for horses, her first jobs in the world of fashion and her leap to television.