If you want to know anything about Oscar Pistorius, just hit up Mandy Wiener’s Twitter feed. A respected and award-winning South African journalist & true-crime author, Mandy has made herself the go-to person on anything regarding the tragic Valentine’s Day event that happened just over 2 years ago.

In the latest news, Oscar is to be released on parole on Friday and in a column published by EWN, Mandy shares her thoughts on whether Oscar Pistorius can ever return to what he once was seen to be.

With Oscar Pistorius preparing to be released from prison on parole on Friday, he can now tentatively look towards the future. He can begin to consider what the coming years may be like, post jail.

This is, of course, keeping in mind the fact that he will still be serving out the remainder of his five year prison sentence at home under strict conditions and will by no means be a ‘free man’. It’s also considering the fact that he could very well land up back in jail serving a potential fifteen year jail term if the Supreme Court of Appeal convicts him of murder in November.

But there will be a slight sliver of light now for the athlete, as he returns to some semblance of normality at his uncle’s Waterkloof mansion. He will no longer be bound by the limitations of a correctional facility and will be able, to some degree, to resume his own reality.

This beggars the question – will he ever be able to return to his career as a competitive, elite athlete? The answer seems a ridiculously, blatantly obvious one. But it is worth properly interrogating. I mean why the hell not, we interrogate every other tiny detail around this case anyway.

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[source: ewn]