Thailand’s convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived at his mansion in the capital Bangkok after being released on parole. The billionaire was freed from a police hospital, where he had been serving a one-year jail sentence for corruption and abuse of power. Thaksin, 74, was detained as soon as he returned to Thailand...
Ex-Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been freed on parole from a South African jail, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He shot her multiple times through a bathroom door in 2013, later saying he had mistaken her for a burglar. Pistorius, now 37, was eventually convicted of murder in 2015 after an appeal...
A long-term prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment over the murder of his wife and dismemberment of her body more than 25 years ago is again suing Namibia’s prison authorities in an attempt to get released on parole. In a case argued in the Windhoek High Court yesterday, prison inmate Thomas Florin is asking...
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has ruled that convicted killer Oscar Pistorius has served more than half his sentence for the 2013 murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, which means he is technically eligible for parole. According to the BBC, it found that the former athlete, also known as “Blade Runner”, passed the halfway mark on 21...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who has spent six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has asked the Constitutional Court to declare him eligible for parole. This, according to the BBC, comes after his bid for parole was denied in March when it was revealed that he had not served the...