South African athlete Oscar Pistoriuswhich meets prison term To killed his girlfriend in 2013model Riva Steenkampwill be tested tomorrow audience board that will evaluate if conditional freedom.
Expected that Pistorius36 years old, to appear before the parole board in Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Center in Pretoria at hearings that should in principle be held behind closed doors, local media reported today.
The Board, which includes representatives from the prison service, the police and civilians, will decide whether a Paralympic athlete is eligibility for parole after serving half of his fifteen-year prison sentence.
“A minimum period of detention which the prisoner must pass is an important milestone in the rehabilitation process of those under our care, as it also serves pivotal point for considering parole and it should be done at the right time,” explained at the end of October last year, the representative South African Department of CorrectionsSingabaho Nxumalo, in the Pistorius case.
The decision of the board is expected in the coming days after discussion by this committee.
Last year, Pistorius requested High Court of Pretoria force corrections officers to hold a parole hearing by claiming he was serving over half of his sentence for the murder of Stenkamp.
According to South African lawoffenders serving half their sentences can be candidates for parolea milestone that Pistorius claimed to have achieved.
The athlete assured that he did everything in his power to rehabilitate and show full remorseThis is stated in a statement sent to the court.
After a lawsuit that attracted worldwide media attention, Pistorius was originally sentenced in October 2014 to five years in prison. for premeditated murder when Judge Tokozile Masipa found that there were extenuating circumstances, although The prosecutor’s office appealed this decision..
IN November 2015, Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa removed the athlete’s conviction for murder and declared him guilty of murderreturned the case to the court for a review of the verdict.
IN July 2016Judge Masipa sentenced Pistorius to six years in prison for murder.
After another call prosecutionHowever Supreme Court of Appeal raised the sentence to November 2017 under fifteenthe minimum required by South African law in cases of homicide, except in exceptional circumstances.
In practice, this judgment meant thirteen years and five months in prisondiscounting the time Pistorius spent in pledge and low House arrestHe was already in jail.
Last July Department of Corrections confirmed that the meeting had taken place the previous month between Pistorius and Stankamp’s parents.
The meeting was part of the athlete’s rehabilitation, which was required to apply for probation.
Pistorius is serving time for shooting Steenkamp at his home in Pretoria Valentine’s Day 2013when he was at the height of his fame and amassed a fortune through his sports career.
shot him four times through the closed door to the bathroom and unsuccessfully tried to prove in court that he panicked mistaking Stenkamp for a thief that he would have entered the house through the bathroom window.
Pistorius was born with a genetic problem that caused his parents to amputate both of his legs below the knee when he was 11 months old. worldwide fame works in Olympic Games in Londonin 2012 on two carbon prostheses.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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