>> FORMER OLYMPIC AND
PARALYMPIC SPRINTER AND
CONVICTED MURDER IS NOW BACK
HOME AFTER HE WAS RELEASED FROM
PRISON IN SOUTH AFRICA.
>> AFTER SERVING NEARLY NINE
YEARS FOR KILLING HIS
GIRLFRIEND, CNN'S DAVID
MCKENZIE JOINS US LIVE FROM
SOUTH AFRICA.
AND I KNOW THERE, CAMERAS ALL
AROUND THE BUILDING THERE.
NO PICTURES WERE CAUGHT, WE'RE
PROBABLY NOT GONNA SEE HIM AT,
ALL UNDER THE CONDITIONS THAT
WERE SAID.
>> WELL MAX, BIANCA, THAT'S
RIGHT.
THEY SAID THAT THEY WILL NOT BE
TREATED ANY DIFFERENTLY FROM
ANY OTHER LEAGUE.
THEY SAID HE WON'T BE ALLOWED
TO GIVE MEDIA INTERVIEWS.
THEY MANAGED TO SPREAD HIM AWAY
FROM THE WORST NEAR PRETORIA.
WITHOUT BEING SEEN AND NOT
BELIEVED TO BE AT HOME AT HIS
UNCLE'S HOUSE IN THE WEALTHY
SUBURB OF PRETORIA.
IT'S HARD TO OVERSTATE WHAT A
FIGURE WAS IN THE WORLD'S EYE.
A FAMOUS PARALYMPIAN, AN
OLYMPIAN WHO OVERCAME VERY
DIFFICULT PERSONAL
CIRCUMSTANCES TO BECOME A
CHAMPION.
BUT IT ALL CAME CRASHING DOWN
IN THE EARLY HOURS OF
VALENTINE'S DAY, NEARLY TEN
YEARS AGO.
AND THIS STORY HAS BEEN A SAGA.
>> BACK IN 20, 12 THIS IS OSCAR
PISTORIUS.
A WORLD-CLASS ATHLETE, AND
WORLD.
MODERN OVERCOMING INCREDIBLE
ODDS.
IS EXEMPTED BELOW THE KNEE, AT
11 MONTHS BECAUSE OF THE BIRTH
DEFECT.
THE BLADE RUNNER, COMPETING AT
ABLE-BODIED LONDON OLYMPICS IN
2012.
>> HE'S DONE MAGNIFICENTLY,
WELL AND I THINK EVERYBODY
PROUD OF HIM.
>> MONTHS LATER, OSCAR
PISTORIUS GLOBAL FAME BECAME A
SORTED GLOBAL NOTORIETY.
>> ON VALENTINE'S DAY, 2013, HE
KILLED HIS UP AND COMING
MODELED GIRLFRIEND WITH A
STICK.
FOUR, TIMES THROUGH THE LOCKED
BACK IN.
THE POLICE, LANDING HIM
BLOODIED AND IN SHOCK.
THEY SAID THAT IT WAS AN
ACCIDENT, ANY THOUGHT THAT HE
WAS AN INTRUDER.
THE STATE CHARGED HIM WITH
PREMEDITATED MURDER.
THIS, TRIAL A RIVETING COURT
FROM DRAMA FOLLOWED BY MILLIONS.
I WILL SAY THAT WHEN YOU GOT UP
HERE AT AN ARGUMENT AND THAT'S
WHY SHE RUNAWAY DREAMING.
>> IT'S THE STATE SAYING THAT
WITHIN TWO LIMITS, OF THE STATE
VERSION, OF THE SHOOTING OF
FIVE MINUTES OF OUR VERSION AND
A TRAUMA SIZED STATE IT DOESN'T
MAKE SENSE.
>> THE DEFENSE, CLAIMED
PISTORIUS WAS A VULNERABLE NOW
BROKEN MAN WHO DESERVED
LENIENCY.
>> HE SUFFERED FROM AN ANXIETY
DISORDER AND WE KNOW THAT WHEN
HE WAS ON THE, STORMS IT WAS
SERIOUSLY COMPROMISED.
AND WITHOUT, ANYTHING IT WOULD
NOT BE ABLE TO DEFEND HIMSELF.
>> YOU KILLED A PERSON, THAT'S
WHAT YOU, DIDN'T YOU?
>> YOU KILLED HER, THAT'S WHAT
YOU DID.
>> UNDER THE, FACT THAT I
WOULDN'T WISH THAT ON ANY HUMAN
BEING FINDING OUT WHAT
HAPPENED.
AND IT DEVASTATED US.
>> AFTER NEARLY 50-DAY TRIAL
STRETCHED OVER SEVEN MONTHS, >>
THE ACCUSED IS FOUND, NOT
GUILTY, AND IS DISCHARGED
INSTEAD HE IS FOUND GUILTY OF
CULPABLE HOMICIDE.
>> PISTORIUS, PLACED IN THE
PRIVATE, SO IN THIS PERSON'S
MEDICAL-ING.
RELEASED AFTER JUST A YEAR.
WON SIX OF THE SENTENCE, TO HIS
UNCLES MATCH UNDER HOUSE
ARREST.
>>, BUT PISTORIUS LEGAL STUDENT
AND THEIR.
AN APPEAL TO HIS CONVICTION,
CONVERTED TO MURDER.
HE WAS SENT BACK TO PERSON, HIS
SENTENCING FOR MURDER, THEN
EXTENDED AT THE SAME APPEALS
COURT.
RIVAS FAMILY SAYING, SHE CAN
NOW REST IN PEACE.
OSCAR PISTORIUS, FOR YEARS, AND
THE PUBLIC EYE FOR THE RIGHT.
AND VERY WRONG REASONS FADED
FROM PUBLIC VIEW.
UNTIL NOW.
>> OF COURSE, THE TRAVELS A
GLOBAL PHENOMENON.
BUT THIS WAS ALSO VERY PERSONAL
TRAGEDY FOR THE FAMILY.
JUST A FEW HOURS AGO, THE
MOTHER WAS, SAYING THAT THERE
COULD NEVER BE JUSTICE IF YOUR
LOVED ONE IS NEVER COMING.
BACK, AND NO AMOUNT OF CONCEPT
WILL BRING IT BACK.
WE, WHO REMAIN BEHIND ARE THE
ONES SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE.
SHE SAID, THE PAIN IS STILL
VERY RAW.
AND REAL.
AND A FEW MONTHS AGO, MAX,
BIANCA SHE DID SAY THAT SHE
DIDN'T BELIEVE OSCARS VERSION
OF EVENTS THAT HE SAID HE
BELIEVED IT WAS AN INTRUDER AND
THAT ARROYO SECO.
BEHIND THE BATHROOM, DOOR YEARS
AGO,, MAXIMA >> DAVID MCKENZIE
LIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
WESTERN.
KATE THANK YOU SO MUCH.