In a television interview broadcast last month, Pistorius said that if he “was afforded the opportunity of redemption, [he] would like to help the less fortunate”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reeva Steenkamp in 2012. Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete who killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, by firing four bullets through a closed toilet door, will learn on Wednesday how long he will spend in prison for murder. A day before, Barry Steenkamp, 73, the father of the victim, tearfully called for Pistorius to “pay for his crime”. After an appeal by state prosecutors he was convicted of murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of 15 years.

Source: The Guardian July 05, 2016 17:19 UTC