South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is still serving his prison sentence for the convicted murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013. Please find more details about his court trial and charges.
Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide in 2014 and subsequently of first-degree murder in 2016 after shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp four times at their home in Pretoria.
Oscar stated that he mistook Reeva for a home intruder during his initial testimony and shot her multiple times in self-defense. Oscar was initially jailed with a five-year sentence for his guilty homicide charge, but the charge later changed to an additional six years in 2016. The court later indicted him of first-degree murder and imprisoned him for 15 years behind the bar in 2017.
Oscar’s involvement in the heinous murder is portrayed through the BBC documentary entitled ‘The Trials of Oscar Pistorius.’ Oscar was initially held at Kgosi Mamparu prison in Pistoria after the Supreme Court indicted him of culpable homicide in 2014 and assigned him five years of imprisonment.
Where Is Oscar Pistorius Today?
Oscar Pistorius served his 15 years jail sentence on November 24, 2017. He is imprisoned at Atterridgeville Correctional Centre. Oscar was initially jailed for five years when his involvement in the shooting and murder of Reeva was yet not thoroughly investigated. He got charged with a culpable homicide charge, and later in October 2015; he was released from prison after just serving one year behind the bar.
Oscar was then moved to his uncle’s home at Pretoria, where he would serve his further years in home sentence. But soon, the court called him again for trial after he was found guilty of the murder. He was assigned a jail sentence of six years and then held at Kgosi Mamparu prison’s hospital wing.
His second court decision was made in October 2015, and a year later, he was shifted to the Atterridgeville prison in a highly secured and better-facilitated cell. An additional 13 years of imprisonment was later assigned to Oscar while still in his new prison ward. In March 2018, the court discarded his latest appeals and removed the possibility of parole until 2023.
Explore Oscar Pistorius’s girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s Murder Details
Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp four times at their Pistoria residence and later testified in court that he thought of her as a possible intruder. He was charged with culpable homicide and jailed for five years at Kgosi prison.
The case was better analyzed two years later, and the court convicted Oscar of murder, thereby indicting him with six years of imprisonment. Later, the court added 13 more years to his jail charges and shifted him to the Atterridgeville prison ward.
Oscar Pistorius’ Trial Details And Update
Oscar Pistorius was rejected in his court appeal in March 2018 and removed from any possibility of parole till the year 2023.
Oscar used a Taurus PT 917 CS 9mm semi-automatic pistol as his murder weapon and served two years at Kgosi prison from 2014-to 2016. Since 2016, he has been assigned to the Atterridgeville Correctional Centre, and as per insider reports, he was found teaching his cell inmates about the Bible.