Another Christmas behind bars for Oscar Pistorius after SCA confirms parole eligibility in 2023
Convicted killer Oscar Pistorius will be eligible for parole in 2023 following a confirmation from the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).
The disgraced Paralympian Oscar Pistorius will have to spend another Christmas behind bars after the Supreme Court of Appeal confirmed that he will only be eligible for parole in March 2023.
Pistorius was sentenced to 13 years and five months in prison after he shot and killed his girlfriend model Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home.
He claimed that he had mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder hiding in the bathroom.
The court in Bloemfontein confirmed the date following confusion over when the 35-year-old may appear before the Atteridgeville parole board.
In a letter dated 20 October 2022, the chief registrar confirmed that the judgement of November 2017 is applicable.
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Paragraph 25 of that judgment reads:
"By the time the court a quo sentenced the respondent on 6 July 2016, he had however already served a period of imprisonment of 12 months and correctional supervision for a period of seven months pursuant to the initial sentence imposed upon him on 21 October 2014. He should receive credit for those periods of imprisonment and of correctional supervision already served. The terms of our order should therefore be adapted to take account of both s 282 of the CPA and the length of incarceration and of correctional supervision of the respondent. (See S v RO 2010 (2) SACR 248 (SCA) para 44."
There have been three separate judgements in the Pistorius matter regarding his conviction and sentence.
In January 2021, the SCA backdated his sentence to July 2016 the day he was found guilty on a charge of murder.
