OSCAR PISTORIUS RULING, CONVICTION CHANGES TO MURDER.

Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend by the court who gave their ruling on 3rd December,2015.The supreme court upgrade the paralympian's sentence to murder from culpable homicide , south African equivalent to Manslaughter, which he had received a five year sentence. Pisrorius whose legs were amputed when he was a baby, denies deliberately killing Reeva Steenkamp, saying he mistook her for an intruder at his home.

Pistorius family spokesperson Anneliese Burgess told Aljazeera;

" The court returns in January and only then will we know what date has been set for the sentence currently the legal team is considering whether to appeal as it has 10 working days from the day the verdict was announced to lodge one"

Pistorius was released last year from prison and placed under house arrest at his uncle's mansion, having spent less than a year behind bars for shooting head model girlfriend, Reeva SteenKamp on Valentine day in 2013.


Prosecutors argued that Pistorius should have been convicted of murder for firing four shots through a locked toilet door. They said he intended to kill Steenkamp and that she had fled to the toilet during a row.