Oscar Pistorius, the former Paralympic champion and convicted murderer, has been granted parole and will be released from prison on January 5, 2019.
Pistorius, who is serving a 13-year sentence in a South African prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will be monitored by authorities and must attend therapy sessions until his sentence is completed.
Pistorius served one year of a five-year sentence after being found not guilty of murder but convicted of culpable homicide.
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The Supreme Court later changed it to a murder conviction, extending the sentence to six years, which was later increased to 13 years and five months after an appeal. Pistorius, who was initially denied parole in March, is now eligible and will be released next year.
The Oscar Pistorius case sparked widespread interest, resulting in docuseries such as Amazon Prime’s “Pistorius” in 2018, ESPN+’s “The Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius” in 2020, and a new series called “My Name Is Reeva,” which was recently sold to Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and SBS in Australia.
“’My Name is Reeva’ is a sensitively told three-part series produced by an international team of talented creatives,” Kelly Wright, Keshet International’s managing director of distribution, said of the docuseries. “We are pleased to have enabled this important docuseries to find a home with Channel 4 in the U.K. and SBS in Australia, where I’m sure audiences will be as moved as I was to see the impact of the victim-offender dialogue on Reeva’s ageing parents and their ongoing quest for justice.”
Source: variety
