My Name Is Reeva on Channel 4: Is Oscar Pistorius still in prison and what happened to him?

It's been more than a decade since South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead at his home in Pretoria.

He fired four times at the 29-year-old model through the door of his bathroom, claiming he'd mistaken her for an intruder. Pistorius was initially found guilty of culpable homicide - the equivalent of manslaughter in the UK - and was jailed for five years in 2014.

He was let out of prison on house arrest in October 2015 following 'good behaviour,' but a few months later the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the initial verdict and instead found him guilty of murder.

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It followed the conclusion that Pistorius would have known that firing the gun would've killed whoever was behind the bathroom door, regardless of who it was. His sentence was increased to 13 years and five months and he was returned to the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre in Pretoria.

The former Olympic athlete, who'd earned the nickname Blade Runner due to running on prosthetic blades, previously won gold at the Paralympics and became the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics. But in prison, far removed from his sporting glory, his appearance has changed.

His former school headteacher Bill Schroder, who would visit Pistorius in prison, told the Sun on Sunday in 2020 that the former sports star had grown a beard and put on some weight. He had reportedly since given up on all exercise and is also now a smoker, completely changing his complexion and making him unrecognisable from when he first went to jail.

In April this year, he applied for parole once again but it was denied because he had not served the required minimum for