Oscar Pistorius to spend more weeks behind bars after hearing to discuss release was postponed

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Olympian, who is serving five years for homicide, was hoping for release
Committee due to decide on his case overran, causing two-week delay
If early release is granted he is likely to go under house arrest in Pretoria

By Kieran Corcoran for MailOnline and Afp

Published: 11:02 EST, 19 September 2015 | Updated: 12:49 EST, 19 September 2015

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A second hearing to decide whether Oscar Pistorius should be released early from prison has been postponed for two weeks, leaving him to languish behind bars.

Officials in South Africa's corrections department met on Friday to consider early release pleas, but ran out of time before getting to his.

As a result of the backlog, the double amputee Olympian must keep waiting for his request to be considered.

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In prison: Oscar Pistorius is serving five years in prison over the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He is pictured above during the trial which convicted him

He was initially approved to be released and moved to house arrest last month.

However, South Africa's justice minister intervened and ordered a review, saying a parole board's decision at their hearing in June was premature.

Pistorius, 28, was sentenced to five years in prison last October after being convicted of culpable homicide, or manslaughter, for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

Under South African law, he was eligible for release after serving one-sixth of his sentence in jail - in his case 10 months.

But two days before his expected Aug. 21 release, Justice Minister Michael Masutha ordered a review of Pistorius' case on a technicality, saying his release was approved in June and before he had served 10 months.

Victim: Pistorius is pictured above with Steenkamp in 2013. He shot her to death through a bathroom door

Pistorius is being held in the hospital wing at the Kgosi Mampuru II prison in central Pretoria.

If he is released, he would likely serve the remainder of his five-year sentence under house arrest at his uncle's mansion in suburban Pretoria.

Even if he is released early from jail, the former star athlete's court battles are not over.

Prosecutors are appealing his acquittal for murder at the Supreme Court in November, where he will again face the possibility of a murder conviction and a 15-year jail sentence for shooting Steenkamp multiple times through a toilet door in his home.