Oscar Pistorius is pictured for the primary time as a free man: See the world unique footage of paroled killer after he piled on the kilos in jail and needed to get new prosthetic legs

Displaying him smiling within the autumn sunshine, these are the primary footage of Oscar Pistorius since his launch from jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The disgraced former Paralympian, 37, was seen for the primary time after serving seven years behind bars – as he reported to the parole workplace in Pretoria.

Though Pistorius, referred to as ‘The Blade Runner’ due to his prosthetic legs, appeared glad as he walked, his years in jail have clearly taken their toll on the athlete.

His slender body suggests he has shed a number of the weight he reportedly placed on whereas in jail to the extent that his prosthetic legs now not match him. 

Now his hair is gray and thinning, and he’s additionally believed to have grow to be a sequence smoker in jail.

It was reported in January that Pistorius was involved about his muscular decline  resulting from lack of every day working whereas imprisoned. 

Nonetheless, these footage present he nonetheless has an athletic construct. 

He killed Reeva, 29, on Valentine’s Day 2013, taking pictures her by way of the locked door of their toilet and later claiming he had thought she was an intruder. 

Since his launch, the star has remained holed up in his uncle’s £2million luxurious mansion in Waterkloof, Pretoria, after being warned by parole officers to not be photographed.

The gun-fanatic has been allowed out on parole till 2029 and should adhere to various situations set down by Atteridgeville Correction Providers officers.

He has to bear a course of ‘anger administration’ to assist him cope together with his fierce mood which prosecutors stated led him to kill Reeva.

The previous athlete can now not be the get together animal that he was earlier than he gunned down Reeva in his condominium on February 14, 2013.

He’s barred from ingesting alcohol and dealing with any weapons and should inform his parole officers of his whereabouts and stay at his uncle Arnold’s house throughout set hours.

Pistorius has additionally been banned from giving media interviews, which is able to got here as an additional blow as main US speak exhibits have been hoping to line him up as a star visitor.

He stays underneath home arrest at his uncle’s house – and is claimed to wish a lot of the day in between taking part in video video games and greeting family and friends.

He has using a swimming pool, health club and video games room and when he dines together with his uncle and aunt they maintain fingers and the religious Christians pray earlier than consuming.

Uncle Arnold has been a quasi-father determine to Pistorius since his youth, having taken accountability for him and siblings Aimee and Carl within the wake of the dying of his mom Sheila when he was simply 15. 

Sources stated Pistorius hardly ever ventures out and prefers pals to go to as he’s petrified Johannesburg’s underworld figures will take revenge on him.

He has executed some volutary work at a close-by church. One parishioner informed the New York Publish: ‘He isn’t pleasant, not outgoing. I do not know if I’ve ever seen him crack a smile. He is only a shadow of what he as soon as was.’

Since his first trial in 2014, when Pistorius was discovered responsible of culpable murder – later overturned in favour of homicide – after taking pictures and killing Steenkamp by way of a locked toilet door at his Pretoria house, the previous athlete has leaned closely on his religion. He usually introduced a rosary to courtroom, and was pictured studying ‘Breakthrough Prayer: The Energy of Connecting with the Coronary heart of God’ by Jim Cymbal throughout breaks.

In January, MailOnline solely revealed how Pistorius’s well-known ‘blade runner’ prosthetic legs now not match him after his years of inactivity in jail – and informed how he fears he won’t ever be capable of run correctly once more.

On the witness stand, it recurred as a theme as he informed the courtroom that religion was ‘the factor that has obtained me by way of this previous yr’, and mentioned Steenkamp’s religion, sharing how they might pray collectively earlier than meals and the way she would pray ‘about my coaching’.

Throughout his time in jail he began a Bible research group and led prayer conferences, and stories circulated across the time of his launch that he was mulling the concept of turning into a preacher.

Pistorious’s father Henke is claimed to be ‘glad’ together with his son’s dwelling preparations and the star’s sister Aimee flew South Africa from her London house to spend time there on his launch. 

The dearth of every day working whereas imprisoned means his legs have shrunk and are now not appropriate with the trademark bespoke blades he wore to compete on the monitor.

He referred to as in medical doctors whereas in Atteridgeville Jail in Pretoria as a result of he was involved in regards to the muscular decline.

Dr Gerald Versfeld, the orthopaedic surgeon who carried out the double amputation, went to see the killer in jail to assist match new prostheses after he complained those he entered jail with have been uncomfortable and didn’t match anymore.

It was established that Pistorius, who was 6ft tall in his prime on his synthetic limbs, had skilled discount within the size of his remaining thighs.

Pistorius was the darling of world sport after competing within the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics earlier than the killing – as sponsors have been falling over themselves to supply him business offers.

He secured the profitable offers together with his tragic backstory of how who was born with out fibulas and had each legs amputated beneath the knees earlier than his first birthday.

He has by no means admitted he intentionally shot mannequin Reeva and continues to say it was an accident.

The shamed star has caught to his line that he believed an intruder had damaged into his condominium as he and Reeva slept.

He gunned her down by way of a bathroom door within the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013 and claimed it was an accident as he believed an intruder had entered his house.

However after a yr of protracted courtroom hearings his conviction of culpable murder was modified to homicide. As an alternative of life, he was punished with a 13-and-a-half-year sentence.

Reeva’s dad and mom Barry and June Steenkamp campaigned for Pistorius to return clear and admit he deliberately shot their daughter.

Barry died final yr after assembly his daughter’s killer and failing to get him to confess the homicide.

Mrs Steenkamp informed MailOnline: ‘There was a row. Neighbours heard screaming – a lady’s scream – Reeva’s scream. I consider the neighbours.

‘I consider that Reeva wished to depart him that evening and ran to the bathroom in worry to cover from him. The proof in courtroom leaves me with little doubt that he knew it was Reeva behind the bathroom door when he fired 4 black talon bullets by way of the door.

‘These bullets explode when it hits human flesh. He is aware of weapons, and he knew what these bullets would do to my stunning daughter. He knew it will kill her.’

Mrs Steenkamp, who’s from Blackburn, Lancashire, stated it was her personal religion which enabled her to forgive Pistorius for murdering her daughter.

‘My Christianity requires me to forgive. I forgave Oscar a very long time in the past. I forgive for my very own sake, not for his,’ she stated.

‘Forgiveness doesn’t imply he should not pay for what he has executed. Oscar didn’t solely take Reeva’s life when he killed Reeva in chilly blood, he additionally took Barry and my life. Our pleasure, our future grandchildren.

‘He additionally took our privateness away. We’ve got been criticised and insulted by some members of the general public, who had victimised Barry and I, as if we had been those who did one thing unsuitable.

‘(It was like) as if we had been those to drag the set off 4 occasions by way of a closed door and killed an harmless individual.’