Pretoria – Former paralympian Oscar Pistorius will be placed under correctional supervision as from 20 October 2015, the Department of Correctional Services has announced.
This comes after the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB) met in Pretoria on Thursday for the second time, following a directive from the Parole Review Board, which set aside its earlier decision to place Pistorius under correctional supervision because it was prematurely made.
The department said the parole board considered all submissions, including the offender’s profile report, the directives of the Parole Review Board and the submission of the victim’s family.
“Upon careful consideration of the facts placed before the Parole Board as contained in the G326 Profile Report submitted by the Case Management Committee in terms of Section 42 (2)/* 79 of the Correctional Services Act of 1998, the Parole Board decided to place Mr. Oscar Pistorius under correctional supervision as from 2015/10/20 until 2019/10/20,” the department said in a statement.
The Parole Board has also given the offender his correctional supervision conditions which include the directives of the Parole Review Board in respect of continued psychotherapy and prohibitions in line with the Fire Arms Control Act Section 103.
Pistorius has been serving a five-year prison sentence after being found guilty of culpable homicide in 2014. He shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on 14 February 2013 at his Pretoria home. – SAnews.gov.za
