Oscar Pistorius

• Olympian Oscar Pistorius released on parole after nearly 9 years in jail

  Pistorius served nearly nine years of his murder sentence of 13 years and five months for the fatal shooting of model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.

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  Jan 5, 2024
  
• Oscar Pistorius granted parole a decade after killing girlfriend

  Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world.

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  Nov 24, 2023
  
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• Oscar Pistorius denied parole 10 years after murdering girlfriend

  The parole board hearing Oscar Pistorius' application ruled he would be able to apply again in August 2024.

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  Mar 31, 2023
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• Oscar Pistorius’ prison sentence for killing girlfriend more than doubles

  South Africa's Supreme Court more than doubled the ex-Olympian's murder sentence.

  World

  Nov 24, 2017
• Oscar Pistorius murder case returns to court as prosecutors seek longer prison sentence

  Prosecutors are asking South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal to give them permission to challenge Pistorius' six-year sentence.

  World

  Nov 3, 2017
• Oscar Pistorius treated for wrist injuries in hospital; back in jail

  Pistorius told officials that he suffered the injuries after falling out of bed, who denied he had attempted suicide.

  Crime

  Aug 7, 2016
• Prosecutors to appeal Oscar Pistorius’ ‘shockingly’ lenient 6-year jail sentence

  The South African prosecutors' office says it will appeal against Oscar Pistorius' six-year prison sentence for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, calling it "shockingly" lenient.

  Crime

  Jul 21, 2016
• Oscar Pistorius handed 6 year prison sentence in death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

  South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013.

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  Jul 6, 2016
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• Steenkamp cousin testifies Pistorius did not give ‘true version’ of events in shooting

  Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius did not give the "true version" during trial testimony of how he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in South Africa in 2013, a cousin of Steenkamp said Wednesday at the sentencing hearing for the double-amputee Olympian.

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  Jun 15, 2016
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• Father of Reeva Steenkamp testifies in sentencing hearing for Oscar Pistorius

  The father of Reeva Steenkamp has testified in a South African court that her fatal shooting by Oscar Pistorius "devastated" his family and that today he thinks of her "all the time."

  World

  Jun 14, 2016