JUST IN : PISTORIUS TO SPEND THE NEXT SIX YEARS IN PRISON OVER THE DEATH OF HER GIRLFRIND

• Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
• Judge Thokozile Masipa said there were “substantial and compelling circumstances” that meant he should not serve the 15-year minimum sentence for murder.
• Masipa said the continuing misperception that Pistorius had intentionally killed Steenkamp was something the court had a duty to correct “to prevent unjustified outrage from the public” 
• On Valentine's Day 2013, Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria home. He said he had mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder hiding in the bathroom, but he was arrested and charged with murder. At his trial the following year, Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide. He received a five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended prison sentence for a separate reckless endangerment conviction
• In November 2014, prosecutors asked the sentencing judge for permission to appeal the verdict. Permission was granted in December, and the case was presented to a five-person panel at the Supreme Court of Appeal. He was released on house arrest, and on 3 December 2015 the Appeal Court overturned the culpable homicide verdict and convicted him of murder.Pistorius appeared in court on 13 June 2016 to start the sentence hearing for the murder conviction; on 6 July 2016 he was sentenced to six years imprisonment for murder.
• Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius  born 22 November 1986) is a South African Sprint  runner and convicted murderer. Both of Pistorius' legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old. He was the first athlete to compete at the Paralympic games and Olympic games, competing in sprint events for below-knee amputees in Paralympic events, and in non-disabled sprint events. Credit: additional information from :wikipedia.Com. and Picture 1 & 2 from :www.cbc.com and www.tmz.com