Who’s in the mood to throw a pity party for Oscar Pistorius? Anyone? Or, like me, do you find his crime so disturbing it rather sticks in the craw to feel you’re being sold a “broken man” narrative?
Pistorius, 37, the South African double-amputee former Olympic sprinter, has been released on parole, after serving nine years for the murder of 29-year-old paralegal and model, Reeva Steenkamp. They’d been dating for three months when Pistorius fired his 9mm pistol several times through the locked bathroom door of his Pretoria home early on Valentine’s Day, 2013. Pistorius pleaded not guilty (claiming he thought there was an intruder). In a complex series of events, he was initially convicted of culpable homicide (similar to manslaughter), later changed to murder. Eventually, his sentence was increased to 15 years less time served.
