South African athlete, Oscar Pistorius has filed a suit asking the country’s prison board to consider him for parole.
Known worldwide as the “Bladder Runner”, Oscar was accused of killing his girlfriend in February 2013.
High Court in Pretoria found him guilty of homicide and was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014.
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In 2015, the country’s lower Supreme Court of Appeal revised Oscar’s conviction of ‘culpable homicide’ to murder in December.
The athlete was then handed a 13 years jail term based on the new charge of murder.
A year after, the country’s Constitutional Court, rejected an appeal for sentence by lawyers of the incarcerated South African athlete.
The South African Paralympic champion who is still serving 13-year prison term for the murder of his girlfriend is asking the courts to compel prison authorities to consider him for parole.
Oscar’s lawyer, Julian Knight says his client is only seeking an order to force authorities to hold a parole hearing for him.
Knight, further explained that the application does not necessarily mean his client must be place on parole.
He however said they are rather asking for him to be considered.
“It’s just an application to compel the parole board to convene a hearing for him on the subject. No hearing date has been given yet” Knight explained without giving details of the suit.
The Department of Correctional Services in July this year confirmed meeting between Pistorius and Steenkamp’s parents the previous month.
State official say Pistorius’s encounter with parents of the diseased is part of the rehabilitation requirements for his parole application.
Oscar Pistorius, shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp while in a toilet in Oscar’s home on Valentine’s Day in 2013.
In defense, the Olympic champion said he mistook his girlfriend for a burglar.
