Oscar Pistorius has arrived in court for a bail hearing that could send him back to jail after he was convicted of murder on appeal for shooting dead his girlfriend.
The Supreme Court of Appeal last week threw out his earlier conviction on the lesser charge of culpable homicide for killing Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, 2013.
Pistorius, 29, is under house arrest in Pretoria after serving one year of his five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide – the equivalent of manslaughter.
“It’s a bail application. His [earlier] conviction has been overturned, so his sentence from before has been scrapped,” Lusanda Ntuli, spokeswoman for the justice ministry, told AFP on Monday. “The defence and prosecution will present their arguments.”
The double-amputee athlete known as the ‘Blade Runner’ now faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence for murder, although the term could be shorter if he is released on parole, while South African media are reporting his defence team intends to appeal against the murder conviction at the Constitutional Court – which is the highest court in the country. No date has yet been announced for his sentencing.
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