A
parole board is set to recommend that the disgraced athlete Oscar
Pistorius, convicted in the killing of his girlfriend, be released from
prison in August, South Africa's Department of Correctional Services
told CNN on today.
Pistorius, 28, was sentenced in October to five years in prison for culpable homicide in
the killing of Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. In South
Africa, culpable homicide means a person was killed unintentionally but
unlawfully.
Pistorius acknowledged
firing shots through the bathroom door in his home, but said he thought
there was an intruder in the bathroom rather than his girlfriend.
Pistorius'
fall from grace was one of the most dramatic since that of O.J.
Simpson, the American football player turned sports announcer and movie
star, who was charged with murder in the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife,
Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Simpson was acquitted in a criminal trial but found responsible for the deaths in a subsequent civil suit.
Like Simpson, Pistorius was handsome, popular and wealthy from commercial endorsements when the charges were filed.
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