Oscar Pistorius will remain free on bail until he is sentenced for murder in April and as he appeals his conviction to South Africa’s Constitutional Court, a Pretoria judge has ruled.

Judge Aubrey Ledwaba ordered Pistorius — the 29-year-old Paralympic champion convicted of shooting his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, through a bathroom door in 2013 — pay 10,000 rand (about $700) in bail, remain under electronic surveillance, surrender his passport and stay within 20 km of the apparently comfortable Pretoria home where he has been under house arrest since he was paroled in October. He will still be able to leave the premises between 7 a.m. and noon, as he has during his house arrest.

Pistorius — known for his emotional outbursts and even vomiting during his trial — stood quietly as Ledwaba announced the order.

After South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned Oscar Pistorius’s conviction for culpable homicide — the equivalent of manslaughter — and found him guilty of the more serious crime of murder last week, prosecutors had sought more restrictive confinement. Originally sentenced to five years, but paroled after just one, Pistorius now faces a minimum of 15 years in prison.

“We feel strongly about the fact that he needs monitoring, and should not leave the house at any time,” state prosecutor Gerri Nel said, as CNN reported.

Source: The Washington Post