Oscar Pistorius implores ConCourt to be released on parole

in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, after opening fire on her while she was standing behind his closed bathroom door.Pistorius was initially sentenced to six years in jail in 2016 by North Gauteng High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa.That sentence was later overturned by the SCA in 2017 and increased to an effective 13 years and five months.

The SCA found that, even if Pistorius believed that he was shooting at an intruder when he fired multiple shots into his bathroom door, he must have reasonably foreseen that whoever was behind that door would die.News24 , Pistorius insists his second murder sentence should have been antedated to 6 July 2016, the day that he had started serving his first murder sentence.

He says if this is considered, he should have become eligible for parole in March, but this was denied by parole authorities.

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