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| South African Paralympic Oscar Pistorius |
South African Paralympic best Oscar Pistorius - who faces annihilation accuse over the cutting of his adherent - has spent his aboriginal night out of aegis afterwards getting accepted bail.
At a pre-trial audition on Friday, a Pretoria cloister disqualified the accompaniment had not fabricated a case that he would flee, or that he had a agitated character.
Mr Pistorius, 26, denies murder, adage he attempt Reeva Steenkamp, 29, cerebration she was an burglar at his home.
The next audition is set for 4 June.
Mr Pistorius spent eight nights in a badge corpuscle in Pretoria, afterward his arrest on 14 February. Afterwards Friday's cardinal acceding him bail, he larboard the cloister in a argent car pursued by photographers.
The athletes is blockage at his uncle's abode in Pretoria.
Family 'relieved'
Magistrate Desmond Nair set bond at 1m rand (ВЈ74,000; $113,000).
Mr Pistorius was aswell ordered to duke over his passport, abstain his home in Pretoria and address to a badge base every Monday and Friday.
Mr Nair took about two hours to bear his judgement.
He criticised the affidavit of Detective Hilton Botha for not afterward up important leads and alteration his evidence.
Both abandon accede that Mr Pistorius attempt through the bath aperture four times, hitting and killing Ms Steenkamp.
Mr Pistorius's ancestors and supporters in the cloister gasped and animated as the cloister appear his decision.
His uncle, Arnold Pistorius, said alfresco court: "We are adequate by the actuality that Oscar got bond today, but at the aforementioned time, we are in aching for Reeva Steenkamp and her family."
Conflicting accounts
But prosecutors adduce the cutting happened afterwards the brace had an altercation at Mr Pistorius's home in the aboriginal hours of 14 February.
Det Botha told the cloister that assemblage had heard shouting, agreeable and battery from about 600m (2,000ft) away.
But after he afflicted his affirmation to advance the assemblage were abundant closer.
Mr Pistorius says he woke in the average of the night, and anticipation there was an burglar in the bathroom.
The prosecutors approved to portray Mr Pistorius as man with a history of abandon who was acceptable to abscond the country.
But the defence argued it would be absurd for Mr Pistorius to abscond because his prosthetic legs would be noticed wherever he went.
Ms Steenkamp, 29, was a archetypal and law alum with a beginning television career.
Oscar Pistorius, 26, won gold medals at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012.
In London he fabricated history by acceptable the aboriginal double-amputee to run in the Olympics, authoritative the semi-final of the 400m.
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