Oscar conviction appeal granted
High Court in Pretoria Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday dismissed an application by the State against Oscar Pistorius’s sentence but granted the appeal against his conviction of culpable homicide.
High Court in Pretoria Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday dismissed an application by the State against Oscar Pistorius’s sentence but granted the appeal against his conviction of culpable homicide.
The High Court in Pretoria showed “too much mercy” to Oscar Pistorius in sentencing him to five years for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp, the State argued on Tuesday.
Jamie Cooper-Hohn, ex-wife of Children’s Investment Fund Management UK LLP founder Chris Hohn, is to receive $530 million of the couple’s marital assets.
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius will embrace the five-year prison sentence handed down by the High Court in Pretoria, his uncle Arnold said on Tuesday.
Convicted paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius may end up spending only 10 months in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a justice department spokesman said on Tuesday.
South African track star Oscar Pistorius was escorted out of the Pretoria High Court by police to a holding cell on Tuesday.
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday to five years imprisonment for the culpable homicide killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
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