As Judge Thokolize Masipa told track star Oscar Pistorius he would go to jail for killing Reeva Steenkamp, customers at the bar owned by her parents held up their palms to signify “five years” and murmured approval.
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius will embrace the five-year prison sentence handed down by the High Court in Pretoria, his uncle Arnold 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.
Judge Thokozile Masipa rejected a suggested sentence of house arrest and community service for paralympian Oscar Pistorius in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.
PRETORIAÂ (Reuters) –Â Oscar Pistorius’ defence team wrapped up its case in the murder trial of the Olympic and Paralympic athlete on Tuesday and the court adjourned for a month to allow the legal teams to prepare and submit their closing arguments. Pistorius, who had his lower-legs amputated as a baby, could face life in prison if … Read more