Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.The six-time Paralympic gold medalist was sentenced by a court in Pretoria on Wednesday(Today) morning, having been fund guilty of murdering Steenkamp by an appeal court in December last year.
The 29-year-old killed Steenkamp by shooting through a locked toilet door in February 2013, and was originally convicted of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter, in September 2014, having said he believed he was firing at an intruder.
This verdict was subsequently overturned by the appeals court and the conviction was upgraded to murder.
Pistorius was facing a possible a 15-year jail term for the murder, but the Judge Thokozie Masipa, said substantial and compelling circumstances existed in the double-amputee Olympic runner's case, which justified a lesser sentence, and that Pistorius is a first-time offender, and unlikely to offend again.
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