{"id":432383,"date":"2023-03-31T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432383"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:00:31","slug":"oscar-pistorius-remains-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/oscar-pistorius-remains-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius remains in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar has been in jail since 2016 and was able to try to get parole as he served \u00bd of his prison time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Oscar Pistorius will not be released early from his jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SZavrlcQ5v\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SZavrlcQ5v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1641798508670746625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius shot and murdered Steenkamp in his bedroom on February 14, 2013. He told the court that he thought it was an intruder, so he shot several times.<\/p>\n<p>After a few years of legal battles and appeals, the South African was sentenced to spend 13 years and a half in prison in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The family of the murdered Reeva was against his bid for parole, as their lawyer said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that parole has been denied. They will reconvene in a year to reconsider him again, and we don&#8217;t know the reasons yet [for the denial],&#8221; Koen said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve just received a call from the parole board. &#8230; It is a huge sense of relief for June [Steenkamp, Reeva&#8217;s mother].&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar has been in jail since 2016 and was able to try to get parole as he served \u00bd of his prison time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432385,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[14084],"gn_keywords":[18529],"acf":{"announce":"Pistorius was not allowed parole for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in 2013.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432383"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432383"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}