Good News For Team Reeva Steenkamp

Oscar Pistorius may be forced to stay in jail because he has NO ANKLES for electronic tag. 
Fast Facts

Oscar Pistorius murdered girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his appartment on Valentines Day of 2013

 

• Athlete hopes for release after just ten months for killing Reeva Steenkamp
• But prison bosses have told him he cannot take part in monitoring scheme
• They say tag cannot be properly monitored if fitted to his removable limbs
• Tags can't by law be fixed to wrists because they are too easily taken off
• Prosecution's request to appeal manslaughter verdict to be heard on Dec 9
• Pistorius being held in the same prison cell as disgraced former Police chief
• He is served porridge, a basic lunch and slices of buttered bread for dinner.

The hospital wing contains nine other inmates, among them suspected mafia hitman Radovan Krejcir, a fugitive from the former Czechoslovakia. Pistorius was briefly introduced to them when he arrived.
He is currently undergoing a 21-day risks and needs assessment and will later be obliged to join rehab or skills-training courses in the prison workshops.
Pistorius is a Group A prisoner, a category extended to convicted police officers, soldiers, elderly prisoners and the sick.
He is not considered to be a danger to others, and the category provides him certain privileges such as the right to weekly visits of one hour's duration from friends or family members. They can also bring him food parcels.
Correctional Services Department spokesperson Sibongile Khumalo admitted that his category means 'he has some form of preferential treatment for his own safety'.
Pistorius was clearly aware of the dangers of prison life as he stood for sentencing at the end of his trial.
When police led him down the stairs to the holding cells, he discreetly slipped his expensive designer watch into his uncle Arnold's hand as they reached out to each other for a few seconds.
The National Prosecuting Authority had described Pistorius sentence for killing Reeva Steenkamp as 'shockingly light' when it announced its intention to appeal the manslaughter verdict. His legal team has opposed the move, setting the stage for a hearing before the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria in a month.

Source: UK Daily Mail.