South Africa’s former paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius was on Friday (Jan 5) released from prison on parole, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door on Feb 13, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pistorius,\u00a0known as the ‘Blade Runner’, became eligible for parole in March 2023 after serving half of his 13 years and five months sentence for killing Steenkamp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is to be noted that he\u00a0will not be allowed to speak to the media on account of\u00a0the parole condition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa’s former paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius was on Friday (Jan 5) released from prison on parole, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door on Feb 13, 2013. Pistorius,\u00a0known as the ‘Blade Runner’, became eligible for parole in March 2023 after serving half of his 13 years and five months…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,66],"tags":[185,186,187,184],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletic","category-international-athletics","tag-blade-runner","tag-oscar-pistorius","tag-paralympic-runner","tag-south-africas-blade-runner"],"yoast_head":"\n