Olympic and Para-Olympic athlete,Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot dead on Valentine's Day last year.
In a court in Pretoria, Judge Masipa also handed Pistorius a three-year sentence, suspended for five years, for negligently discharging a firearm in a crowded restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013. The two sentences will run concurrently.
The prosecution had wanted Pistorius to serve at least ten years in prison, while his own lawyers had argued that he should serve a three-year community-based sentence, such as 16 hours of domestic cleaning a month.
Immediately after the verdict was read out, members of the athlete's family told reporters that there would be no appeal against the sentence, and that they expected Pistorius to go directly to prison. His legal team said their understanding was that he will have to serve ten months, one sixth of his sentence, in prison before being considered for house arrest.
I think the judgement is too light for Oscar.
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