{"id":31676,"date":"2013-02-22T20:01:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/court-grants-pistorius-r1m-bail\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T20:01:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T20:01:55","slug":"court-grants-pistorius-r1m-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/22\/court-grants-pistorius-r1m-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Court grants Pistorius R1m bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"57\">\n<p>PRETORIA(AFP) \u2013 Bail for murder-accused South African sprint star Oscar Pistorius was set at one million rand ($112,770) by Pretoria magistrate Desmond Nair on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius will also have to surrender his passport, firearms and report to Pretoria\u2019s Brooklyn police between 7:00 am and 1:00 pm on Monday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend, is to return to court on June 4 after he granted him bail.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the bail conditions, magistrate Desmond Nair also said Pistorius \u201cshall refrain from using any prohibited substance and or alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family of murder-accused Oscar Pistorius expressed their relief at the South African sprinter being granted bail Friday, saying \u201cthe truth will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are relieved by the fact that Oscar got bail today, but at the same time, we are in mourning for Reeva Steenkampf and her family,\u201d said uncle and family spokesman Arnold Pistorius.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> PRETORIA(AFP) \u2013 Bail for murder-accused South African sprint star Oscar Pistorius was set at one million rand ($112,770) by Pretoria magistrate Desmond Nair on Friday. Pistorius will also have to surrender his passport, firearms and report to Pretoria\u2019s Brooklyn police between 7:00 am and 1:00 pm on Monday and Friday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}