Updated: Oscar sentenced to five years in prison

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in jail for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp, by the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.

For discharging a firearm at Tasha's restaurant he was sentenced to three years in jail, suspended for five years.

Both sentences would run concurrently.

As the court adjourned, Pistorius, looking weepy, made his way out of the dock and down the stairs to the holding cells.

As he descended the first steps he touched the hands of four relatives standing above him, a woman in a pink outfit, a woman in a navy blue blazer and skirt, and his uncle Arnold and wife Lois.

His brother Carl went down the steps soon after that.

Steenkamp's father Barry said outside the court: "[I am] satisfied with the sentence… [its] now time to go home."

His wife June then walked in front of him as they made their way to the their car.

On September 12, Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide for the Valentine's Day 2013, shooting of his girlfriend Steenkamp in his Pretoria townhouse. The court found him not guilty of murdering Steenkamp.

Pistorius shot Steenkamp through the locked door of the toilet, apparently thinking she was an intruder about to emerge and attack him. She was hit in the hip, arm, and head.

Pistorius was found guilty of firing a pistol under a table at Tasha's restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013.

He was found not guilty of shooting through the open sunroof of a car in Modderfontein on September 30, 2012, and of illegal possession of ammunition.

Source : Sapa /th/tk/dm/aa