Oscar Pistorius will be released next week on ‘corrective supervision’, barely 300 days after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend.
The convicted athlete has been recommended as an ‘ideal candidate’ for a new scheme aimed at saving money and making space in South Africa’s overcrowded jails.
Pistorius is likely to be fitted with an electronic tag when he is released, but one of the problems being faced right now is where a tag might be fitted on Pistorius who was a baby when his legs were amputated below the knee since they are typically fixed around the ankle of offenders.
Pistorious was jailed for fatally shooting Reeva Steenkamp, who would have turned 31 next Wednesday, through a locked bathroom door at his home on Valentine’s Day in 2013. He was cleared of murder after telling his trial how he had mistaken his lover of three months for a burglar.
The news he will soon be released has been met with opposition from Reeva’s family.
Prison authorities are still finalising the conditions of the 28-year-old South African’s release into corrective supervision just 10 months into his five year sentence for manslaughter.
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