Johannesburg - Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison on parole in August after serving 10 months for culpable homicide in the killing of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a family member said.
The Olympic and Paralympic track star is currently serving a five-year prison sentence after being convicted in October following a seven-month trial.
“Oscar will be released on parole by the end of August,” a Pistorius family member who did not want to be named told Reuters.
Officials at the Department of Correctional Services were not immediately available to comment.
Steenkamp, a 29-year-old law graduate and model, died almost instantly on Valentine's Day in 2013 when Pistorius shot her through a locked toilet door at his luxury Pretoria home.
Prosecutors had pushed for a murder conviction, but the athlete maintained he fired in the mistaken belief an intruder was hiding behind the door.
The prosecutors won their bid to appeal the culpable homicide conviction and will seek a murder conviction when their case is heard in November.
The decision could leave Pistorius open to a prison sentence of at least 15 years if he is convicted of murder.
Reuters