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Pretoria — Paralympian Oscar Pistorius will be released on correctional supervision on October 20, the Correctional Services department confirmed yesterday.
This comes after the Kgosi Mampuru II correctional supervision and parole board considered all submissions, including from the victim’s family, his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot dead on Valentine’s Day in 2013.
“Upon careful consideration of the facts placed before the Parole Board as contained in the G326 (Profile Report) submitted by the Case
Management Committee in terms of Section 42 (2)/* 79 of the Correctional Services Act of 1998, the Parole Board decided to place Mr.Oscar Pistorius under correctional supervision as from 2015/10/20 until 2019/10/20.”
“The Parole Board has also given the offender his correctional supervision conditions which include the directives of the Parole Review Board in respect of continued psychotherapy and prohibitions in line with the Fire Arms Control Act Section 103,” the department said in a statement.
Meanwhile, was always a pleasant customer to those working at the Spar supermarket near his uncle’s home in Pretoria.
“He is a pleasant man who is always smiling and willing to lend an ear,” Dikomang said.
On October 21 last year, Pistorius was sentenced to five years for shooting Steenkamp dead on Valentine’s Day in 2013.
He was sentenced to a further three years, suspended for five years, for firing a shot at Tasha’s restaurant in Johannesburg, in January 2013. — News24
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