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Oscar Pistorius denied parole in South Africa - BBC News

Mar 28, 2024
Now back to some breaking

news

we brought you a little earlier from South Africa. I remember Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius murdering his girlfriend Riva Steenkamp in 2013, while the breaking

news

is that he has been

denied

parole

there. She is 36 years old and had been requesting early release after serving half of her 13-year sentence. We can go live now. In Pretoria, our correspondent Andrew Harding is there. Hi Andrew, what just happened there in the last few hours? I'm afraid it's a pretty ridiculous situation, the South African justice system seems to have made a huge mess of this.
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In fact, today's Parole Board hearing that we are now learning should never have taken place in the first place, because the prison authorities here actually received a triple-digit letter three days ago on Tuesday of this week explaining to them that Our Oscar Pistorius has not actually served, according to his calculations, half of his time in prison, half of his sentence, in fact that moment will come next August 2024. Now I recently spoke to Oscar Pistorius, his uncle Arnold, who was puzzled, who said that it was clear to him that he had served half his sentence and he said he would receive legal advice as to how this confusion may have arisen, what appears to have happened is that because the stories were initially sentenced once he was appealed he was sentenced again spent some time in prison spent some time under house arrest then spent a longer period currently still in prison there is confusion about exactly when he should receive his sentence It is considered to have begun and it appears that the Supreme Court of Appeals here and the President of the Supreme Court have decided that it only started the last time his prison sentence began, so they are taking the strictest interpretation of the law, if you like Andrew, uh, that.
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As you said at the beginning, there is no situation that covers the justice system with much glory. Okay, can we get to the essence of the problem compared to the justice system, but I guess Rivastienkamp's family and the reaction there, well, they said they welcomed this delay, they argued at the

parole

meeting in prison here behind the web. Pistorius is still imprisoned, they argue today that they did not believe he was genuine in his remorse, they still insist that Oscar Pistorius needs to confess to deliberately killing Riva Steenkamp, ​​his girlfriend, a court has never ruled on the matter, it simply ruled that Pistorius should have known that whoever was hiding behind his bathroom door would die when he shot three times through that closed door, but the Pistorius family insists that Pistorius has shown no remorse, has not admitted the truth, and therefore, He should remain in prison, but we also know that Pistorius and his lawyers argued that he has shown remorse.
oscar pistorius denied parole in south africa   bbc news
He met River Steenkamp's father last year and expressed his remorse again and apologized for his actions. We also know that prison officials and social workers have spoken about his behavior during recent years in prison, and leaked information from a previous court dispute seems to indicate that prison officials believe that Pistorius has generally behaved well and that, in his opinion, he is upset. right boxes to be allowed out on parole, but clearly that's not going to happen at least for some time, because as more clarity is sought, no doubt, and more attorneys get involved in trying to determine where and when Pistorius might be eligible for parole, extraordinary stuff.
oscar pistorius denied parole in south africa   bbc news
Andrew, thank you so much for bringing us up to date with the latest in South Africa. I'm going to let Andrew go, but I just want to give you an update and an effective backup of what he just said. We have a statement. from the family of Rivas Dean Camps saying that while we welcome today's decision, today is no cause for celebration, we mistreated him terribly and will do so for the rest of our lives, we believe in Justice and hope that it continues to prevail.

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