Oscar Pistorius released on parole 11 years after killing Reeva Steenkamp | BBC News

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Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been freed on parole from a South African jail, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Officials confirmed Pistorius was “at home” on Friday morning, having served half of his more than 13-year sentence.

Pistorius, now 37, shot Ms Steenkamp multiple times in 2013 through a door.

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  1. If you have never lived in South Africa and experienced home invasions, you have no place to speak here. I do believe Oscars account for several reasons, hyper vigilance is common in South Africa, if he shouted in the house between the bedroom and bathroom that there was someone in the house, she would have been terrified if she thought someone had broken in. As for two cell phones, I have two that I carry on me at all times. He has no reason to kill her, he loved her. This was not a case of gender based violence. There was a ladder outside the bathroom window and his mind must have gone to that fact hence him rushing to the bathroom when he heard a noise there. Reeva inside the toilet would have thought he was confronting someone and quickly locked the door. One has to be logical about this especially when you live in South African cities. This was a tragic accident. He was totally devastated. Something similar happen with Springbok Rugby player Rudi Visagie, who shot his daughter Marle Visagie 2004 when she was leaving the house early hours of the morning for her fiances home – he thought someone was stealing her car so he shot at the car, not knowing it was his daughter. People are very quick to jump to the conclusions especially with someone famous and then you have ego driven lawyers trying to build their reputation and status by taking down someone. The Judge had made the correct assessment but due to political pressure and interference was forced to change her ruling. Sadly, June Steenkamp will never believe anything other than what she had decided to believe. There has to be a villian, only her daughter can be the victim – and this is due to her enormous grief. She was not there, Oscar was. He has to live with the thought that he is responsible for the death of the woman that he loved.

  2. They could have made a well-off and beautiful family together. But characters between people are a poison sometimes, that even if you are the richest, most promising, and most beautiful, your character and/or other people's characters around you can just erase and negate all that.

  3. He murdered her on valentine day,revenge.
    He said he didn't have any mental health issues,every one who have a massive trauma,has mental health iusses,he killed her intentionally,
    He uses the tactic of having
    people feel sorry for him.
    He lied.
    It sends a message,that people like him,can get away with murder,cause of their dark thought, and anger issues.

  4. Oscars neighbours heard arguing then shots and the more screaming then more shots. 36 hours before she was shot he found out she had lunch and drinks with an EX boyfriend. Oscars a was an extremely jealous person and would come unhinged.

  5. He shouldn’t have killed her, she locked the door for godsakes. And shot her 4 times that’s a lot, you go check on your partner to see if they are there or not! He took away someone’s daughter, a human life and ruined his career. I was utterly shocked honestly when I heard what he did in 2013 and I met him just after the Paralympics in london. He seemed like such a nice guy, but on the flip side he wasn’t. You can’t condone killing someone, you just can’t.

  6. l followed the case very carefully and he knew what he was doing Oscar has anger issues he got mad chased Reeva down and killed her and thought up a quick story to explain what happened and thought he could get away with it

  7. I might not know all the Rules in the Justice Department, but up and until now; not that Gerrie Coetzee could prove really what happened on that evening…that is truely beyond me…I know that I don't want such to happen to my daughter, but really Reeva was never a known Celebrity and her Parents was ploughing on Oscars fame and fortune…because Reeva was blond and lovely plays a huge roll in all this…She cold-heartedly played on his heart..As far as I'm concerned he was indeed a true Scorpio, no,-,nonsense guy and was Reeva a true girl friend for Oscar..in any case there was no compatibility whatsoever between them; so be it…He is released now and paid for it; whether its unfairly OR not; let GOD decides…We can't be judges in other people's affairs as we aren't middle-Man…

  8. I feel sorry for Oscar, honestly…. not because he shot Reeva with a 45, not because he caught and did 9 years , cause… most excons come out with chops, tatoos …! all he came out with was STICKERS !!!

  9. People are shocked to see a man being freed after serving 11 years in prison, meanwhile in my country the guy who killed almost 17000 is now the prime minister of our country for the second time.😢