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South African former professional sprinter and convicted murderer, Oscar Pistorius, has been denied parole and will continue to serve his sentence.
Pistorius, who was denied parole on Friday (Mar. 31) would have to wait until a new parole hearing next year.
He had been sentenced in 2017 to 13 years in prison for the 2013 murder of his partner Reeva Steenkamp.
Some South Africans in Pretoria backed the decision by the prison board.
“Reeva will never come back. Her parents will never have peace, never and I also think, if it was my kid on that situation, I would want that person dead or be in jail,” Lebohang Mokoena shared.
“I still feel he needs to sit more in prison and serve more in prison so that the rest could learn. Because now if they are releasing people like this on a faster note, it wouldn’t be fair enough for for for South Africans,” Leonard Tshweo reckoned.
“I feel like he should serve more time because he is not ready to face the world,” Precious Matumba said.
“You know, now, most most of the people are dying. Most women are been killed everyday. So the justice system is failing us every time.”
The 36-year-old has always claimed he shot his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day in error after mistaking her for a dangerous intruder.
Steenkamp’s parents still believe he is lying and opposed Pistorius’ application for parole.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that on 14 February 2013, Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, paralegal and model (Reeva Steenkamp), in his Pretoria home.
He claimed he had mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder hiding in the bathroom. He was arrested and charged with murder. At his trial the following year, Pistorius was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpable homicide.
He received a five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended sentence for a separate reckless endangerment conviction.
Pistorius was temporarily released on house arrest in 2015 while the case was presented on appeal to a panel at the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, which overturned the culpable homicide verdict and convicted him of murder.
In July 2016, Judge Thokozile Masipa extended Pistorius’s sentence to six years.[17] On appeal by the state for a longer prison sentence, the Supreme Court of Appeal increased the prison term to a total of 15 years.