Oscar Pistorius has been released under correctional supervision from prison.
Oscar Pistorius has been released under house arrest nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend, prison officials say.
He is expected to spend the remainder of a five-year prison sentence at his uncle’s home in Pretoria.
Pistorius was sentenced to five years imprisonment for shooting dead his then girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. Judge Thokozile Masipa found him guilty of culpable homicide late last year.
Pistorius will now serve the reminder of his sentence under house arrest but will also have to adhere to at strict parole conditions such as undergoing psychotherapy and undertaking community service.
Pistorius was initially expected to be released on August 21, but Justice Minister Michael Masutha however blocked this and referred the matter back to the parole review board.
He said the parole board had acted prematurely when it decided on June 5 to release Pistorius. It should have met on August 21, after Pistorius had served one-sixth of his five-year jail sentence, to decide if he could be released into correctional supervision.
The matter was then taken to the parole review board (PRB) which again referred it back to the Kgosi Mampuru II prison parole board.