Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday to five years imprisonment for the culpable homicide killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
He was also sentenced to three years, suspended for five years, for firing a pistol under a table at Tasha’s restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013.
The sentences would run concurrently.
Masipa said that Oscar Pistorius’s defence team’s suggestion that he should serve three years community service for killing Steenkamp “would not be appropriate”.
Delivering her verdict, Masipa said the suggestion by defence witnesses would not be in the interest of justice.
State must appeal: ANCWL
The ANC Women’s League will make submissions to the State on why it thinks the Pistorius case should be appealed, it said.
“Regardless of what the outcome of the sentencing is today, the ANC Women’s League remains dissatisfied with the verdict delivered by Judge Masipa finding Mr Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide instead of murder,” spokeswoman Edna Molewa said in a statement.
“Consequently, the ANC Women’s League will be making submissions to the State on our view that an appeal in this case is in the interest of the judicial system and the general public.”
The African National Congress Women’s League said it waited with “grave concern” for Judge Thokozile Masipa to pronounce on sentencing.
Culpable homicide
On September 12, Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide for the Valentine’s Day 2013 shooting of Steenkamp. The court found him not guilty of murdering her.
Pistorius was also found guilty of firing a shot from his friend Darren Fresco’s Glock pistol under a table at Tasha’s restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013.
He was found not guilty of shooting through the open sunroof of a car in Modderfontein on September 30, 2012, and of illegal possession of ammunition.
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