On the first day of the bail hearing, Magistrate Nair ruled that Pistorius was charged with a Schedule 6 criminal offence, which relates to serious crimes including premeditated murder and requires exceptional circumstances for release on bail. The bail hearing commenced on 19 February 2013 before Chief Magistrate of Pretoria, Desmond Nair. Ĭape Times billboard following the arrest of Pistorius in February 2013
The Supreme Court of Appeal then imposed a sentence of 15 years – with the time he had already served reducing the time to an additional 13 years and five months. The state appealed again, this time for a longer sentence. On 6 July 2016 Masipa sentenced Pistorius to six years in prison for murder. However, the state appealed the conviction and in December 2015, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the conviction for culpable homicide, finding him guilty of murder instead. He was released on parole on 19 October 2015 after serving one sixth of his sentence. On 21 October 2014, he was sentenced to a maximum of five years for culpable homicide with a concurrent three-year suspended prison sentence for reckless endangerment. On 11–12 September 2014, judge Thokozile Masipa delivered a verdict that Pistorius was not guilty of murder, but guilty of the culpable homicide of Steenkamp and reckless endangerment with a firearm at a restaurant.
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The entire trial was broadcast live via audio and parts of the trial were also broadcast live via television. Pistorius was taken into police custody and was formally charged with murder in a Pretoria court on 15 February 2013. Pistorius acknowledged that he shot Steenkamp, but said that he mistook her for an intruder. In the early morning of Thursday, 14 February 2013, Steenkamp was shot and killed by Pistorius at his Pretoria home.
Steenkamp, a model, had been Pistorius's girlfriend for three months. Pistorius was a leading South African runner, who won attention as an athlete with a disability competing at a high level, including at multiple Paralympic Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics. The trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp and several gun-related charges ( The State vs Oscar Pistorius) in the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria opened on 3 March 2014. Multichoice (Proprietary) Limited and others v National Prosecuting Authority and another ZAGPPHC 37, Gauteng Division, Pretoria (South Africa) (broadcasting of proceedings) Pistorius sentenced to 5 years in prison for culpable homicide (later resentenced to 6 then 15 years for murder) Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria