Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympic athlete jailed for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, will be released on parole next week after serving just one year of his five-year jail term.
Pistorius will be placed under house arrest from next Tuesday, the 20th October, after the parole board approved “correctional supervision.”
“The parole board considered all submissions, including the offender’s profile report, the directive of the Parole Review Board and the submission of the victim’s family,” the South African department of correctional services said in a statement.
This comes after an earlier decision to release him in August was blocked by South Africa’s Justice Minister Michael Masutha, who said it had been made “prematurely.”
Reeva’s family had opposed the earlier release, and had said 10 months behind bars was “not enough.” A lawyer for the Steenkamps said that they expected news of this release, but oppose it.
Under house arrest, Pistorius will likely face gun-ownership restrictions and continued psychotherapy.
He was convicted of culpable homicide, or manslaughter, after shooting Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door.
Pistorius, now 28, still maintains he mistook Reeva for an intruder.
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