The Olympic and Paralympic track star is currently serving a five year prison sentence after being convicted in October following a seven-month trial.

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EXCLUSIVE: The athlete has been recommended as an ‘ideal candidate’ for new scheme - but the decision has been met with anger by the mother of Reeva Steenkamp, shot in Pistorius' Pretoria flat.

The family of Reeva Steenkamp, who was killed by Oscar Pistorius in 2013, released a poignant picture of their daughter aged 14 (pictured) today as his prison release on Friday was put on hold.

Paralympic gold medalist Pistorius, 28, was due to be released into house arrest tomorrow after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Leading lawyer William Booth claims Oscar Pistorius (right) faces a clash of legal battles which means he ‘could sit in jail for a very long time’. He is in Kgosi Mampuru II prison in Pretoria, South Africa.

The 'blade runner', 28, was jailed in October for five years for shooting the model four times as she cowered in the bathroom of the house in Pretoria, South Africa, which now lies empty.

Oscar Pistorius had his cell searched in a dawn raid by prison officers suspicious of his friendship with an underworld figure. A hard drive was seized and is being analysed by police.

Oscar Pistorius is 'frail, gaunt and broken' his friend has revealed as the athlete waits to find out whether he will be granted parole ten months into his jail sentence.

Officials in South Africa's corrections department met on Friday to consider early release pleas, but ran out of time before getting to Pistorius, who is serving five years for culpable homicide.

Oscar Pistorius' case will be heard by South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal on November 3, when prosecutors will ask a panel of five judges to reject his trial verdict and convict him of murder.

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The Paralympian star's lawyers have argued that he should have been released after serving one-sixth of his five-year jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

With its drab, yellow walls, metal bed, this cramped two metre squared cell at Kgosi Mampuru II jail in Pretoria is where Oscar Pistorius spent 23 hours a day for killing model Reeva Steenkamp

The result of an appeal by prosecutors to have 29-year-old Oscar Pistorius’s manslaughter conviction overturned and replaced with one of murder is due to be delivered on Thursday morning.

Kevin Lerena (right) said Oscar Pistorius (left) is depressed, has lost interest in training and women - and suggested he might 'do something stupid' rather than go back to prison.

Killer Oscar Pistorius is 'coping fine' back at Pretoria's maximum security, after being presented with a specially-equipped bathroom, a new mattress and food preparation privileges.

A group of men thought to be a stag party has been photographed in Benidorm dressed as Jimmy Savile, Osama Bin Laden, Oscar Pistorius, Rolf Harris and Saddam Hussein, which shocked fellow guests.

The costume, which proudly promises to 'cause controversy' consists of a green sleeveless shirt, shorts and bootcovers to represent Oscar Pistorius' blades.

Oscar Pistorius's family is using a birthday jail visit later this month to discuss an obscure law that his father could use to overturn former Paralympic athlete's conviction.

Pistorius, who had his murder sentence doubled last month, was waiting for the phone at Atteridgeville Correctional Centre, near Pretoria, when he started a fight with an inmate ‘he knows well’.

June Steenkamp has revealed she and her husband Barry wake up every morning at 3am around the same time their daughter Reeva was murdered by Oscar Pistorius in Pretoria in 2013.

Five years ago on Valentine's Day, South African model Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead by her sprinter boyfriend Oscar Pistorius. Here, her mother June speaks out about the ordeal.

Reeva Steenkamp's family in South Africa today slammed an 'insensitive' new Amazon Prime documentary into her murder for showing the grisly crime scene photos of the model's dead body

Former Paralympian Oscar, 31, is serving a 15-year-sentence for the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29, who he blasted to death in his own bathroom in South Africa.

At 45, the Miami-born SAG Award nominee is 16 years older than the German-born Lions Model

The former Paralympic gold medallist, who is serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of his model girlfriend Reva Steenkamp, 29, is now the leader of a bible group at the Pretoria jail - his father claims.

Paddy Power probably consider it their best joke since they offered odds on Oscar Pistorius being convicted of the premeditated murder of Reeva Steenkamp.

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It is unlikely any criminal charges will ever be laid over the Ruby Princess debacle and it is 'odd' New South Police are even investigating it, according to a  legal expert.