News about Oscar Pistorius

IAN HERBERT IN PARIS: Amid the performances we witness daily here, there is a complacency; a blindness, among many British medals, to the sheer scale of achievement in the face of incalculable odds. You overlook the journeys travelled. And then 20-year-old Ellie Challis appears, paddling herself through the media/athlete mixed zone on Tuesday night on a low trike which provided the mobility which she has lacked since losing her arms and legs at the age of 16 months. The swimmer's fourth-place finish in 100m freestyle didn't tell the full story of her monumental second length, finding a perseverance and speed of stroke which would have taken her to bronze, given 20 metres more pool. But the finish was inconsequential, given the gold she won 24 hours earlier - her Paralympic first - which was a huge moment in a young life played out in the public eye.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: This is not the first time Ellie Challis has appeared on these pages. When she was just five years old, the quadruple amputee was featured in the Daily Mail wearing running blades and racing Oscar Pistorius, then the most famous face in Paralympic sport before his life took a very dark turn. 'My dad said he'd give me £10 if I won the race!' recalls Challis, who Pistorius playfully let win over 15 metres. 'Running was always what I wanted to do, so I thought it was quite cool. I was the youngest child to have blades because they didn't make them for children. Now it is normal, so it was nice to be a part of that.'

The disgraced former Paralympian, 37, was seen this week for the first time after serving seven years behind bars looking happy and relaxed in photos exclusively obtained by the Mail.

The disgraced former Paralympian, 37, was seen this week for the first time after serving seven years behind bars looking happy and relaxed - as he reported to the parole office in Pretoria in photos exclusively obtained by the Mail. Pistorius appeared in public wearing sunglasses in the autumn sunshine with his greying and thinning hair suggesting that the years he has spent in jail for the murder of Reeva have taken their toll. But friends of the model who was shot by Pistorius as she cowered behind the bathroom door in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013 today expressed their fury at seeing him enjoying his freedom. Reeva's friend Tania Koen told of her sorrow for Reeva's mother June whose husband Barry died 'from a broken heart' last year.

Click to see the full unobscued images on Mail+. These are the first pictures of Oscar Pistorius since his release from jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The disgraced former Paralympian, 37, was seen for the first time after serving seven years behind bars - as he reported to the parole office in Pretoria.Although Pistorius, known as 'The Blade Runner' because of his prosthetic legs, appeared happy as he walked, his years in jail have clearly taken their toll on the athlete.

Pistorius walked free in January after serving nine years for the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot and killed through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria bachelor bad.

There must be few more stark situational contrasts possible for a professional athlete, than the one between winning Paralympic gold, and carrying out janitorial duties at a small suburban church. But in the wake of Oscar Pistorius' horrific murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, it is hard to imagine that the disgraced former athlete will ever recover any semblance of his old life. Once feted internationally for his record-breaking on the track, a frequenter of Johannesburg nightclubs, and habitue of magazine covers and talk shows, the 37-year-old is now scarcely recognisable to anyone familiar with his meteoric sprinting success. 

Three months after his release from jail, Oscar Pistorius now finds himself in no man's land while holed up at his uncle's mansion in the South African capital. Pistorius, the only double amputee in Olympic history, walked free back in January after serving nearly nine years for the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot and killed through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria bachelor bad on Valentine's Day in 2013. Yet since being granted parole earlier this year, the 37-year-old has had no success when trying to find himself a job.

After serving half of his 13-year term for shooting the model dead, Oscar Pistorius, who murdered his mother Reeva Steenkamp, was released in January. Since being told by parole officers not to photograph or engage with the media, the actor has remained holed up in his uncle's luxury mansion in Waterkloof Pretoria, South Africa. On the 22nd anniversary of their mother's death, Carl's elder brother Carl posted photos of him as a youngster with his relatives. We still love you the most in the whole world,' Carl wrote on Instagram. Mamma, a girl from Germany. It's now 20 years old, and it still seems as if it was yesterday. Your years of faithful prayer have absolutely blessed us.'

EXCLUSIVE: The absence of daily running when imprisoned means that the disgraced athlete's legs have shrunk and are no longer compatible with the brand-named bespoke blades he wore to compete in the Paralympics, which has made him world famous in the process. While in Atteridgevale Prison in Pretoria, the 38-year-old, who shot model Reeva Steenkamp dead on Valentine's Day 2013, called in doctors because he was worried about the muscular decline. Both feet were amputated when he was 11 months old as a result of a congenital anomaly, and Pistorius was born missing both feet and both fibulae. After he complained that the ones he entered were in jail with were uncomfortable and didn't fit anymore, Dr. Gerald Versfeld, the orthopaedic surgeon who operated on the double amputation, went to see the killer in prison to help fit new prostheses.

Pistorius, a former South African sprinter, died on Valentine's Day 2013 after being sentenced to 13 years in prison for his 29-year-old model, who began serving in 2014. Inmates are allowed to request parole as soon as they have completed half of their sentence, which he was initially refused but has since been granted. Although the former Paralympian is getting his first glimpse of freedom, June has revealed that Reeva's family members are serving a "life term" and that she misses her "beautiful, wonderful child" every day. June said that although she understood Pistorius' had to get out at some point, she suspects he was not given a long enough sentence for the offence he committed.

Pistorius (left), 37, was released from jail earlier this week and is now living at home under stringent parole rules, which also include a ban on drinking alcohol. In 2016, he was sentenced to jail for shooting Ms Steenkamp (right) through the bathroom door in his house on Valentine's Day 2013; reports claim he has now spent a significant portion of his time writing his memoirs in prison. According to reports, he may be about to turn the scribblings into a book, with as much as a seven-figure sum being floated for the right to publish it, outraging her family (mother June Steenkamp, inset).

Adam Steenkamp recalls marvelling, as did the world, at Oscar Pistorius' historic appearance in the Olympic Stadium in 2012. He sees him again in his mind's eye: the Blade Runner, the first double amputee to run in the Games, lining up for his 400 meters heat in his wraparound shades and sickle-like prosthetic carbon-fibre legs, which are shaped to curve like the hind legs of the fastest animal on land, the Blade Runner. Adam must have had a little bit of pride at the time. A man like him, a South African, wowed the world on and off it, regaling himself in interviews with charm and enthusiasm.

XCLUSIVE: After serving less than half of her time, one of Reeva Steenkamp's closest relatives and confidants has slammed the decision to release her killer Oscar Pistorius. The Blade Runner had literally got away with murder, according to Samantha Jonker, who was at school with the slain model and a lifelong friend.' Ms Jonker, 39, who grew up with Reeva in Port Elizabeth, spoke out against the exclusion of the former athlete from the London 2012 Olympics. "What message is South Africa promising a murderer such leniency in the life of a woman or a child?" she told MailOnline, "what message is South Africa sending is that a murderer is getting such leniency in the case of a woman or a child." He should be the one behind a locked door for the remainder of his life. It should be a life for a life.'

Since her daughter was killed by Oscar Pistorius in 2013, Reeva Steenkamp's mother has said she is now serving a 'life term.' After serving more than half of a 13-year jail term for murdering Steenkamp after opening fire through a door in 2013, the former South African sprinter was released from jail. Pistorius was one of South African sport's most popular athletes, earning him the nickname 'Blade Runner' and he was the first double-amputee in Olympic history.

Thank goodness, too, for the Traitors, the BBC's now famous January gameshow delight, helmed by Claudia Winkleman and providing all the escapism one could possibly need to get through this bin fire of a month.

Oscar Pistorius' releasing from prison yesterday was an event they have feared for years for for the woman he shot and killed. The former Olympian hero's claim that he thought he was firing his pistol at an attacker on the night he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his South African home in 2013 is one they have never understood. Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, visited Pistorius in the South African coastal city of Port Elizabeth, wishing to get an admission of guilt from the double-amputee ex-printer a year before he died last September. In 2022, the 'victim-offender' dialogue became part of the 37-year-old Pistorius' rehabilitation program, which was part of the university's rehabilitation program before being considered for parole. Barry read out a touching letter from Reeva's mother June describing the agony of life without her beloved daughter; the wedding gown they would never buy together; and Reeva's grandchildren would never be able to give her a letter. However, although the man who was the first amputee runner to compete in an Olympic Games and nicknamed Blade Runner because of the speed with which he could sprint on his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs, he refused to admit that he shot Reeva at his home on Pretoria's luxurious Silverwood Estate in outrage.

Exclusive: Oscar Pistorius's relatives are planning a family reunion to plan a life for him now that he is out of jail and safe, according to MailOnline. Carl, uncle Arnold (left), aunt Lois and sister Aimee, who has moved to South Africa from her London job, are meeting to decide how to keep him safe in accordance with parole officers' demands. According to Arnold, the disgraced Paralympian (right) - now a greying, overweight smoker - arrived at his uncle's house in Pretoria today, where he will live for five years and see out his sentence. Following Pistorius' release from jail and what career he might return to, the family will decide on how they will live, which may include becoming a kind of preacher.

On Valentine's Day 2013, the 'Blade Runner' Olympian-turned murderer was sentenced to jail for the deadly shooting of model and law student Reeva Steenkamp. He was granted parole in November after serving at least half his term. According to Arnold, the 37-year-old - now a greying, overweight smoker - arrived at his uncle's estate in Pretoria today, where he will live for five years and see out his sentence. His relatives are thought to have held a family summit to plan a life for him now that he is out of jail, with him becoming a preacher. Pistorius talked to the court about how he would pray with Reeva when they were dating, though he is accused of having administered bible studies and prayer meetings in prison, as well as causing a feared gang leader to join.

Oscar Pistorius was released from jail on parole 11 years after murdering his mother Reeva Steenkamp. The Blade Runner was led out of Atteridgeville Correctional Centre and transferred to his new home on his uncle Arnold Pistorius' estate outside Pretoria, some 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. After a parole board inquiry found that the 37-year-old was ready for reintegration, he was released early from jail on November 24, 2023.

According to analysts, Oscar Pistorius will resurface his image and even attract sponsorship deals now that he is out of jail 11 years after shooting dead his mother. The Blade Runner earned three gold medals at the 2006 Paralympic World Cup and went on to be the first athlete to compete in both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. He will earn $2 million (£1.5 million) in endorsement deals with Nike and the luxury sunglasses brand Oakley in the years that followed. All of the above came to an end in February 2013 when the South African was charged with the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day. However, concerns have been raised over whether Pistorius will return from prison tomorrow as a sports mentor or a brand ambassador.

Reeva Steenkamp, a model and socialite, was killed by her boyfriend, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, at their home in South Africa just over ten years ago. Oscar Pistorius, on the other hand, is a free man after being escorted out of jail by authorities. After serving half of his 13-year prison term, the Blade Runner was led out of Atteridgeville Correctional Centre and moved to his new home on the estate of his uncle Arnold Pistorius outside Pretoria. In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, Pistorius fatally shot Reeva four times through the bathroom door, claiming she was an enemy. The disgraced celebrity was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 13 years and five months in 2013, with the couple's shocking details of their relationship surfacing throughout and following the investigation. Here, MailOnline takes a look at the turbulent life the couple shared before Reeva's was cut tragically short

The Blade Runner was escorted out of Atteridgeville Correctional Centre and taken to his new home, where he will remain with his uncle Arnold Pistorius in Pretoria.

The Blade Runner was led out of Atteridgeville Correctional Centre and transplanted to his uncle Arnold Pistorius' estate outside Pretoria, some 11 years after he killed his mother Reeva Steenkamp. After a parole board inquiry determined the 37-year-old was ready for social reintegration, he was released from prison on November 24, 2023, and set his release date for January 5 of this year, he was released early from jail. Parole officers argued that he would be treated no differently than other prisoners, but that he was allowed a private exit, amid the arrival of hundreds of journalists on television crews at the main gate. Authorities say the disgraced Paralympian is 'now at home' after being released on parole on Friday after a cop car was seen pulling into his uncle's house in nearby Waterkloof.