Pistorius, 28, who was found guilty of the lesser charge when he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door and hit Steenkamp, will be confined to his uncle Arnold’s home in a wealthy suburb of the capital Pretoria.
The athlete, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby, will be freed in line with South African sentencing guidelines that say non-dangerous prisoners should spend only one-sixth of a custodial sentence behind bars. The department of correctional services said Pistorius’ parole conditions include that the gun enthusiast must undergo psychotherapy and is not allowed to possess a gun. Africa’s most advanced economy has one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime.
“He might not have been found guilty of murder, but it was yet another instance of a South African woman killed by an intimate partner, and I don’t believe the time he spent in prison reflects the severity either of his crime or the epidemic of violence against women,”said Louise Ferreira, a feminist.Steenkamp’s family have said they are unhappy with Pistorius’s sentence and questioned the verdict in public in August.
