The lawyer for the family of Oscar Pistorius's murdered girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, said that he is entitled to his parole as a matter of process, and that the law 'must take its course.'
"I have completed all possible programs which were presented, and I have indeed qualified in terms of the Department of Correctional Services guidelines for release on parole," he said in a statement.
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes in the men's 400-meter semi-finals at the athletics event during the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 5, 2012 in London.last year as a part of the parole process in South Africa, but The New York Post reported that the gesture could be more than a legal formality as his longtime friend Bill Schroder claimed in 2020 that Pistorius was begging for forgiveness.
Pistorius claimed that he shot Steenkamp because he mistook her for an intruder, but prosecutors argued that he shot her intentionally since he shot her four times. A prosecutor in 2014 also said that Pistorius offered the family $34,000, which they turned down because they did not want to accept"blood money.
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