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Pretoria, March 31 (AFP\/APP): South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is expected to learn on Friday whether he will be released from prison early, a decade after he shot and killed his girlfriend, lawyers said.<\/p>\n

Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp, a model, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, firing four times through the bathroom door of his ultra-secure Pretoria house, in a killing that shocked the world.<\/p>\n

A parole hearing began in the morning at a correctional facility on the outskirts of the capital where the 36-year-old is being held.<\/p>\n

“We have been advised that there will be a decision later today,” Tania Koen, a lawyer representing Steenkamp’s family told reporters outside the facility a couple of hours after proceedings started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretoria, March 31 (AFP\/APP): South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is expected to learn on Friday whether he will be released from prison early, a decade after he shot and killed his girlfriend, lawyers said. Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp, a model, in the early hours […]<\/p>\n

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