‘Don’t believe his story’ – Steenkamp mother on Pistorius
By Reuters
22 April 2023 |
4:30 pm
Oscar Pistorius, the former South Africa Paralympic champion jailed in 2016 for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will ask a parole board on Friday to release him early from prison, lawyers and prison officials said.
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