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Oscar Pistorius gets 5 years in jail for girlfriend’s murder

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Johannesburg: South African judge Thokozile Masipa on Tuesday sentenced Oscar Pistorius to five years in prison for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013.

“Count one, culpable homicide, the sentence imposed is five years,” Masipa said. Pistorius was also given a three-year suspended sentence on a separate gun charge.

Pistorius testified during his murder trial that he mistook Steenkamp for a dangerous nighttime intruder about to come out of the cubicle and attack him when he shot four times through the door with his 9 mm pistol.

Judge Masipa last month ruled that Pistorius did not intend to kill Steenkamp, but he acted negligently and with excessive force in the Valentine’s Day 2013 killing.

He was also convicted of unlawfully firing a gun in a restaurant weeks before Steenkamp’s death. That normally carries a fine for a first offense, but has a maximum of five years in prison.

Pistorius’ brother and sister, Carl and Aimee, gave interviews to a South African television station on the eve of the sentencing, describing what they said was a difficult and emotional time in the more than a year-and-a-half since their brother killed Steenkamp.

“It has been a long journey to this point,” Aimee Pistorius told eNCA.

“A very taxing one. It is difficult to support someone through something like this – all the guilt and ridicule and obviously the exposure that has come with it.”

 

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