• Home
  • Contact Us
  • Submit Press Release
  • Sitemap
Africa News Wire
  • General
  • Business Affairs
  • Lifestyle
  • Health Care
  • Sports
  • Legal
  • Study
  • National
  • Press Releases
  • Home
  • General
  • SOUTH AFRICA: PARALYMPIC PISTORIUS FACES RETURN TO JAIL FOR LOVER’S MURDER

SOUTH AFRICA: PARALYMPIC PISTORIUS FACES RETURN TO JAIL FOR LOVER’S MURDER

June 11, 2016June 13, 2016 Comments Off on SOUTH AFRICA: PARALYMPIC PISTORIUS FACES RETURN TO JAIL FOR LOVER’S MURDER

Disgraced South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will appear in court Monday for a sentencing hearing set to send him back to jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp three years ago.

The double-amputee killed Steenkamp, a model and law graduate, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, saying he mistook her for an intruder when he fired four times through the door of his bedroom toilet.

In March, Pistorius’s lawyers failed in their legal bid to reverse a Supreme Court of Appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide — the equivalent of manslaughter — to murder.

He was released from jail last October to live under house arrest at his uncle’s mansion in Pretoria after serving one year of his five-year sentence for culpable homicide.

Since being convicted of murder, he has been on bail and allowed to leave the house at set times, but not travel further than 20 kilometres (12 miles) without permission.

The 29-year-old “Blade Runner” faces a minimum 15-year jail term for murder, but his sentence could be reduced due to time already spent in prison and mitigating factors, including his disability.

The case at the High Court in Pretoria was scheduled to last until Friday, though the sentence could be handed down earlier.

The year before he killed Steenkamp, Pistorius became the first double-amputee to race at Olympic level when he appeared at the London 2012 games.

He has since lost his glittering sports career, lucrative contracts and status as a global role model for the disabled.

Appeal judges in December described his testimony at his trial as “untruthful” and delivered a damning indictment of the original verdict.

 

Source: Nam News Network

Post navigation

SOUTH AFRICA: PRES ZUMA APPEALS REINSTATEMENT OF GRAFT CHARGES AGAINST HIM
SOUTH AFRICA TO MARK 40 YEARS OF SOWETO UPRISING

Related Articles

Deputy Minister Chikunga hosts 18th Public Sector Innovation Awards Programme, 26 Feb

- General
February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

MEC Albert Fritz welcomes response received from Independent Police Investigative Directorate on SASSA Bellville office incident

- General
February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

Water and Sanitation on Integrated Vaal River System

- General
February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

News Search

Page Links

  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Submit Press Release
  • Sitemap

Advertisement

MonthlyArchives

Advertisement

News Archives

February 2021
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
« Jan    
© Copyright 2021 - Africa News Wire. All Rights Reserved
  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Submit Press Release
  • Sitemap