Oscar Pistorius, moving on prosthetic devices and becoming a six-time Paralympic champion, was sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his bride Riva Stinkamp, which occurred in 2013.
Court verdict
The Pretoria court, represented by Judge Tokosila Masipa, announced a new verdict to 29-year-old Oscar Pistorius, who earlier, according to the decision of the early release commission, was transferred to house arrest for the remaining four years of imprisonment.
The prosecutor's office, which challenged the athlete's stay on a sparing regime of confinement, wanted to get the athlete fifteen years, but the judge, pointing to "the existence of serious circumstances," pronounced the sentence in the form of six years in prison.
As mitigating circumstances, the court obviously took into account the disability of the defendant.
Iridescent outlook
The verdict reads that the murderer Riva Stinkamp (the athlete claims that he shot a beloved without malicious intent, thinking that the burglar was hiding behind the doors, not she), after serving half the time, he can claim parole. Thus, Pistorius may be at large in the summer of 2019.
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Reaction to a court decision
The parents of the deceased did not hide that they were unhappy with such a mild sentence, and the legal expert Levellin Kurlawis, who is chairman of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces of South Africa, told reporters that he expected Pistorius to be sentenced within 11-14 years.
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