EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Pistorius might now WIN his freedom

Oscar Pistorius might win his freedom after prosecutors admitted they made a blunder when refusing earlier bids for parole.

The double amputee, who ran within the London 2012 Olympic video games, can have a recent probability at an emergency parole listening to on Friday.

His household and legal professionals are assured South African prosecutors will free him after he was gaoled for the taking pictures homicide of mannequin Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

But if the gun-toting athlete referred to as ‘Blade Runner’ does win freedom, he can be stored underneath shut safety in worry of revenge assaults from Johannesburg’s underworld, as first revealed by Mail Online.

Pistorius, it’s mentioned, was wrongly dominated ineligible for early launch from jail in March.

The double amputee (pictured, file picture), who ran within the London 2012 Olympic video games, can have a recent probability at an emergency parole listening to on Friday

His household and legal professionals are assured South African prosecutors will free him after he was gaoled for the taking pictures homicide of mannequin Reeva Steenkamp (pictured) in 2013

South Africa‘s division of corrections said at the moment a parole board will resolve whether or not the inmate is appropriate or not for social integration’ on Friday.

Reeva’s household, in an unique interview with Mail Online earlier this yr at their house in Port Elizabeth, declared that their killer’s daughter ought to stay behind bars.

Mr Barry Steenkamp, Reeva’s father, handed away in September, however each he and his spouse June, mentioned they have been in opposition to the assassin being freed.

Pistorius, a world-famous double-amputee athlete who broke obstacles by competing on carbon-fiber working blades on the 2012 London Olympics, shot Reeva a number of occasions via a closed bathroom cubicle door in his house within the South African capital, Pretoria, within the predawn hours of Valentine’s Day 2013.

His conviction was upgraded to murderand he was in the end sentenced to 13 years and 5 months in jail after a sequence of appeals by prosecutors.

Serious offenders in South Africa should serve at the very least half their sentence earlier than they’re eligible for parole.

Pistorius’ case and his parole eligibility have been difficult by these appeals by prosecutors, who first challenged his culpable murder conviction after which a sentence of six years for homicide, which they referred to as shockingly lenient.

The Supreme Court of Appeal ultimately dominated in 2017 that Pistorius ought to serve South Africa’s minimal sentence of 15 years for homicide, however took into consideration the yr and 7 months he had already served for culpable murder when it delivered the 13 years and 5 months sentence.

However, the court docket made an error by not counting one other interval Pistorius had served whereas his homicide sentence was being appealed, which means he was the truth is eligible for parole in March when he was informed at his first listening to that he would solely be eligible in August 2024.

Pistorius’ legal professionals took his case to the nation’s apex Constitutional Court. The determination to provide Pistorius one other parole listening to on Friday is successfully an admission of the enchantment court docket’s error, it was reported.

But if the gun-toting athlete referred to as ‘Blade Runner’ does win freedom, he can be stored underneath shut safety in worry of revenge assaults from Johannesburg’s underworld, as first revealed by Mail Online. Pistorius, it’s mentioned, was wrongly dominated ineligible for early launch from jail in March (file picture)

Mr Barry Steenkamp (proper), Reeva’s father, handed away in September, however each he and his spouse June (left), mentioned they have been in opposition to the assassin being freed

Pistorius, a world-famous double-amputee athlete who broke obstacles by competing on carbon-fiber working blades on the 2012 London Olympics, shot Reeva a number of occasions via a closed bathroom cubicle door in his house within the South African capital, Pretoria, within the predawn hours of Valentine’s Day 2013 (file picture)

Pistorius shouldn’t be assured to be granted early launch. A parole board takes a variety of components into consideration, together with his conduct and disciplinary file in jail, his psychological well being and the probability of him committing one other crime.

He might be launched on full parole or positioned on day parole, the place he could be allowed to reside and work locally however need to return to jail at evening.

Pistorius was born with a congenital situation that led to his legs being amputated beneath the knee when he was a child, however he took up observe and received a number of Paralympic titles on his working blades. He is the one double amputee to run on the Olympics.

Known because the ‘Blade Runner,’ he was on the top of his fame when he killed Steenkamp months after the London Olympics. At his homicide trial, he claimed he shot Steenkamp, a 29-year-old mannequin, by mistake together with his licensed 9 mm pistol as a result of he believed she was a harmful intruder hiding in his toilet in the midst of the evening.

Pistorius will flip 37 on Wednesday and has not been seen for practically a decade, though there have been occasional glimpses of his time in jail.

Mr Steenkamp informed MailOnline in February that he had met Pistorius after he was flown from Prison to a detention centre close to their Port Elizabeth house.

He mentioned he left unconvinced that his daughter’s killer ought to win again his freedom.

‘I used to be losing my time. He is a assassin. He ought to stay in jail’ he informed MailOnline.

Mrs Steenkamp informed why she refused to satisfy Pistorius and was much more damning of the shooter.

She mentioned: ‘I could not see myself going with out hurting him. I did not need to go to jail for attacking him. That would have been an excellent chance. Things have not bought higher. It will get worse because the time goes by as a result of we miss Reeva daily that she shouldn’t be right here with us.

‘It’s very, very anxious that she could not spend our final days with us as a result of he took her.

‘Oscar has taken loads away from us and from her. So now as a substitute of getting upset, I get anger. I’m offended with him. It is a horrible factor to say, however I am unable to stand him.’