Oscar Pistorius was given a six-year sentence for murder, rather than the usual minimum 15 years ReuterSouth African prosecutors are to appeal against the six-year murder sentence handed down to Oscar Pistorius earlier this month, denouncing it as “shockingly lenient”. It said the sentence had resulted in an “injustice”, and had the… “We respectfully submit that the sentence of six years’ imprisonment, in all the circumstances, is disproportionate to the crime of murder committed,” the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said in a statement yesterday. The 29-year-old former Olympic sprinter, who had both legs amputated when he was a toddler, killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in 2013 by shooting her four times through a locked lavatory door.

Source: The Times July 21, 2016 16:02 UTC