South Africa’s Department of Corrections made this public on Friday.
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Recall that Pistorius shot and killed Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013.
The 36-year-old had been seeking early release after serving half of his 13-year sentence.
The meeting is customary in South Africa and is known as “restorative justice”.
Pistorius was convicted of the murder of Steenkamp in 2015 after shooting the model and paralegal on Valentine’s Day.
The South African sprinter was jailed for 13 years for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home in 2013.
Pistorius was jailed for six years for shooting dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but prosecutors have argued that the sentence was “shockingly lenient”.
Singabakho Nxumalo, a spokesman from the department of correctional services, was quoted as saying this by the Times newspaper
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein more than doubled his original sentence of six years after the state appealed that it was unduly lenient.
Pistorius was imprisoned in July last year after being found guilty on appeal of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day in 2013. The case has attracted worldwide interest.
The 30-year-old was taken to a hospital in the administrative capital Pretoria, where he is serving his sentence, according to the website Pretoria East Record.
Family spokesman Johan van Wyk said Lois was waiting for the garage door to close after returning from a shopping trip when the raiders pounced
The shamed athlete last month won his claim to be moved from to a newly-refurbished, “more relaxed” prison, aimed at “low risk, non violent offenders” and disabled inmates, where he is surrounded by acres of lush gardens and trees
In her sentencing, Masipa said that, while the crime committed was serious, a long term of imprisonment will not serve justice in this case.
In October 2014, Masipa sentenced Pistorius to five years behind bars for culpable homicide
Pistorius defence team said on Friday in Pretoria that they would argue that the continuation of the case is inimical to the interests of justice, patently unfair and that enough is enough
Some inside sources told the paper that razor blades were found in the disgraced athlete’s cell last Saturday afternoon, and that his wrist injuries, described as “severe”, were self-inflicted
Judge Thokozile Masipa, whose sentence at the initial manslaughter trial was criticised by women’s groups as too lenient, said she had accepted the defence argument that a lesser punishment was appropriate
South Africa’s minimum sentence for murder is 15 years but the judge said “substantial and compelling circumstances” existed to give Pistorius a lesser sentence for shooting Steenkamp at his home in 2013
He told the court that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired four shots through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home, killing her almost instantly
The double-amputee Olympic runner’s sentencing hearing opens Monday after he was convicted of murder by South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp