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Oscar Pistorius: From Olympic superstar to Pretoria prison

Source: Reuters

Oscar Pistorius has been granted his freedom by a parole board in South Africa after serving a decade behind bars for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

After a highly-publicised trial, following the overturning of an earlier conviction, the athlete, now 37, was jailed for 13 years and five months for the killing in 2016 after being found guilty of culpable homicide, sealing the former icon’s dramatic fall from grace.

Just a year before Steenkamp’s death,

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