The former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is to be freed from jail. Pistorius was convicted of murder after shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, multiple times through a bathroom door in February 2013.
The athlete, nicknamed ‘Blade Runner’ during his sprinting career thanks to his prosthetic legs, claimed he believed Steenkamp was a burglar and that he was acting in self-defense.
Pistorius was initially convicted of manslaughter for Steenkamp’s death and was released after serving one year of a five-year sentence.
That conviction was later overturned by a South African appeals court and he was then convicted of the more serious charge of murder and handed a six-year sentence.
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