Prosecutors have been granted permission to appeal against Oscar’s acquittal for murder, meaning the Paralympian could still face 15 years in jail.
A prisoner at the Pretoria prison where Oscar is being held said that the 27-year-old was listening to proceedings on the radio when he just ‘lost it.’
‘He got up and stomped. He went straight to the gym. He started lifting weights like it was going out of fashion. He is p***ed off.’
‘Why wouldn’t he be? He was definitely expecting to be out by August.’
Pistorious was acquitted of murder, but found guilty of Culpable Homicide earlier in 2014, and was sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
As he only has to serve a sixth of his sentence behind bars, Oscar could be eligible for house arrest as early as August 2015, though experts claim it is unlikely this will happen.
On Wednesday Judge Masipa granted the prosecution’s request to take the case to the Supreme Court of Appeal.