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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 ...
PRETORIA (Reuters) -South African former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was released on parole on Friday, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend in a crime that shocked a nation long ...
Pistorius competed in able-bodied and disabled events with the assistance of carbon-fibre prosthetics. On 14 February 2013, Pistorius was charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who was fatally shot at his home in Pretoria in the early hours of that morning.
A judge in Italy has sentenced a 23-year-old man to life in prison for the stabbing murder of his former girlfriend, a heinous act of femicide that has put violence against women in the spotlight ...
Joshua Dotson has been sentenced to a total of 261 years in jail. He was connected to three other murders after killing his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby in June 2020, authorities have said
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 ...
The former star athlete who stabbed his ex-girlfriend and her mother in a ... Spencer Ross Pearson, 20, was handed a life sentence on Friday after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder and ...