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Cape Times billboard following the arrest of Pistorius in February 2013. The bail hearing commenced on 19 February 2013 before Chief Magistrate of Pretoria, Desmond Nair. [3] [19] On the first day of the bail hearing, Magistrate Nair ruled that Pistorius was charged with a Schedule 6 criminal offence, which relates to serious crimes including premeditated murder and requires exceptional ...
He was arrested and charged with murder. At his trial the following year, Pistorius was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpable homicide. [10] [11] [12] He received a five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended sentence for a separate reckless endangerment conviction both in October 2014. [13 ...
Oscar Pistorius, a former Paralympic gold medalist and Olympic runner from South Africa, was granted parole Friday, 10 years after he shot and killed his girlfriend in his home. The runner will be ...
Pistorius was arrested and charged with murder. [25] [37] Pistorius admitted that he shot Steenkamp, but said he believed he was shooting an intruder. [38] On 12 September 2014, he was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpable homicide in the case. [39] On 21 October 2014, he was sentenced to five years in jail, but only served 10 ...
A Scott County man sentenced for the murder of his 18-year-old girlfriend had his parole request deferred Tuesday morning and will have to wait a decade for the Kentucky Parole Board to again ...
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The "Blade Runner", as he is known, shot 30-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp through the bathroom door of their home with a 9mm pistol he said he kept under his bed. [18] Oscar Pistorius, who was 27 years old at the time of the shooting, stated that he believed it was an intruder in the bathroom, and not his girlfriend, after hearing the sound of ...
Local man Ian Huntley was found to have lured the girls into his house and murdered the girls—likely via asphyxiation—and was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years' imprisonment on December 17, 2003, while his girlfriend Maxine Carr was given a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for perverting the course of justice (she had provided Huntley ...