South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was refused parole on Friday after seeking early release from prison, a decade after he shot and killed his girlfriend, lawyers and authorities said.
The Department of Correctional Services said a parole board found Pistorius had not completed the minimum detention period required to be let out.
Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp, a model, in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, firing four times through the bathroom door of his ultra-secure Pretoria house, in a killing that shocked the world. "While we welcome today's decision, today is not a cause for celebration. We miss Reeva terribly and will do so for the rest of our lives. We believe in justice and hope that it continues to prevail," they said in a statement via their lawyer.
She did not meet face to face with her daughter's killer on Friday, as the parole board decided to hear the two separately, Koen later told reporters outside the prison."It was very unpleasant for her... but she knew that she had to do it for Reeva," Koen said. Comprising at least three people, including prison services and community members, the board was to determine whether the purpose of imprisonment had been served, according to the Department of Correctional Services.
In a short memo dated Tuesday and seen by AFP on Friday, the court explained that the prison term it imposed started on the day of the last judgement in 2017 and not when Pistorius was first sentenced in 2014."It's an extraordinary decision, in fact, it seems completely implausible," said Kelly Phelps, a law professor at the University of Cape Town, adding the court's memo backtracked on previous interpretations of its own ruling.
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