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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Blade-Runner Sentenced to Six Years

SAfrica - Pistorius jailed for six years
for murdering girlfriend
AFP


SAfrica - Pistorius jailed for six years for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp  (AFP Photo/MARCO LONGARI)

- South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to six years in jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home three years ago. High Court judge Thokozile Masipa listed several mitigating factors for sentencing him to less than half the minimum 15-year term for murder, including the athlete's claim he believed he was shooting an intruder. "The sentence that I impose on the accused... is six years imprisonment," she said.

It seems Judge Masipa sentenced Pistorius for culpable homicide, even though his conviction was upgraded to murder.

Pistorius, 29, hugged his family before being taken out of the court in Pretoria to begin serving his term. The double-amputee Olympic and Paralympic sprinter was freed from prison last October after serving one year of a five-year term for culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter. But an appeals court upgraded his conviction to murder in December. Pistorius shot Steenkamp, a model, in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013, saying he mistook her for a burglar.


Reeva Steenkamp

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