Manelisi Wolela, a spokesman at the Department of Correctional Services, said Pistorius would be taken to jail immediately after the sentencing. South African paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced to jail on Wednesday for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, but for how long depends largely on how the judge will weigh the role of his disability in the killing. But the state says he has shown no remorse and has called for him to receive no less than the minimum sentence for murder. I don’t want to have to waste my life sitting there," Pistorius told ITV, statements which caused an uproar on social media. Pistorius, 29, was found guilty of murdering Steenkamp by an appeals court last December.

Source: The Star July 05, 2016 23:03 UTC