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Oscar Pistorius

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January 2024

  • Oscar Pistorius<br>FILE - Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 14, 2016 during his trail for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Oscar Pistorius is due on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 to be released from prison on parole to live under strict conditions at a family home after serving nearly nine years of his murder sentence for the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

    Today in Focus
    The release of Oscar Pistorius

    Oscar Pistorius, the former South African Paralympic and Olympic athlete, was released from prison on Friday. Journalists Tim Rohan and Margie Orford report
  • Barbara Ellen

    Let’s not pity ‘poor’ Oscar Pistorius. Reeva Steenkamp suffered far worse a fate

    Barbara Ellen
    Released on parole, he is suddenly free to erase his murder victim’s memory and replace it with feeble laments

    • Reeva Steenkamp’s mother says ‘family serving life sentence’ as Oscar Pistorius freed on parole

    • Reeva Steenkamp: the model and campaigner who was killed by Oscar Pistorius – video profile

    • Oscar Pistorius parole ‘sends wrong message’, says women’s charity on eve of release

November 2023

  • Oscar Pistorius in court in Pretoria in 2014.

    Who is Oscar Pistorius and why is he being released from jail?

  • Head shot of Oscar Pistorius

    Oscar Pistorius granted parole and will be released from prison in January

March 2023

  • Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during his trial in Pretoria in March 2014.

    Oscar Pistorius denied parole over killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

  • Oscar Pistorius during sentencing proceedings in Pretoria in October 2014

    Oscar Pistorius could be freed within weeks after serving half his sentence

July 2022

  • Penny Mordaunt

    Paralympian asks to be removed from Penny Mordaunt campaign video

    English sprinter Jonnie Peacock edited out of promotional content, along with footage of Oscar Pistorius, after complaint

November 2021

  • Pistorius

    Oscar Pistorius: athlete who killed girlfriend could be up for parole

    South African Paralympic champion has served half his sentence for killing model Reeva Steenkamp

November 2020

  • Reeva Steenkamp with Oscar Pistorius, 26 January 2013.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius; The Diana Interview; His Dark Materials; Industry

  • Oscar Pistorius at a sentencing hearing

    TV review
    The Trials of Oscar Pistorius review – what about Reeva Steenkamp?

  • Oscar Pistorius

    Letters: self-pity lies at the heart of abuse

  • Sonia Sodha

    Reeva Steenkamp was murdered. Shame on the BBC for forgetting

    Sonia Sodha

September 2020

  • Former Labour MP Tom Watson

    Tom Watson's remarks calling Paddy Power 'dirty' emerge as he takes job

    Former MP’s 2014 comments were made about firm taking bets on trial of Oscar Pistorius

April 2018

  • Pistorius sentence increased<br>epa06347303 (FILE) A file picture dated 19 August 2013 shows South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he appears in the Pretoria Magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa. A South African court has 24 November 2017 increased Pistorius’s jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months. Prosecutors had argued that the six-year term for murdering Reeva Steenkamp was too short. EPA/STR *** Local Caption *** 52432842

    'End of the road': Oscar Pistorius loses appeal over jail term in final legal defeat

    South Africa’s highest court rejects the former Paralympian’s bid to have his jail term for killing Reeva Steenkamp reduced

December 2017

  • Oscar Pistorius seen at a court hearing in 2013. He was originally convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to five years in prison.

    Oscar Pistorius to appeal against increased murder sentence

  • Oscar Pistorius leaves court in Pretoria after a hearing in 2014. He is serving a 13-year jail term for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

    Oscar Pistorius injured in prison brawl

November 2017

  • Oscar Pistorius leaves the high court in Pretoria in June 2016.

    South African court doubles Oscar Pistorius's prison sentence

    State argued athlete’s original sentence of six years for murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was ‘shockingly lenient’
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