Bid To Challenge Six-Year Jail Term Fails
South African state prosecutors have failed in their bid to challenge the six-year sentence for murder handed down to Oscar Pistorius. Prosecutors described the Paralympic athlete’s punishment for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 as “shockingly lenient”. At the hearing in Pretoria, Judge Thokozile Masipa said the petition had no reasonable prospect of success. … Read more