Arrest warrant issued for Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius, whose culpable homicide conviction was changed to murder by the South Africa Court of Appeals, still may escape a lengthy jail sentence.

Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp yesterday.

Firstly, she had failed to apply correctly the legal principle of dolus eventualis and should have found that Pistorius had foreseen that he could kill somebody when he fired four shots into a locked toilet door in 2013, fatally injuring his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upgraded the 29-year-old athlete’s sentence to murder from “culpable homicide”, South Africa’s equivalent of manslaughter.

South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is led to a prison van after his sentencing in Pretoria October 21, 2014.

Gina Myers, one of Reeva Steenkamp’s closest friends, believes that the recent ruling on convicted Paralympics runner Oscar Pistorius would bring much needed peace to the late model’s family. Sentencing would depend specifically on the availability of trial Judge Tholozile Masipa and was only likely to happen next year, Mfaku said. His family said in a brief statement that they were consulting their lawyers.

He had been earlier released from prison into a luxurious house arrest arrangement of correctional supervision at his Uncle Arnold’s home in Pretoria.

Pistorius rose to popularity as a twofold amputee nicknamed “Cutting edge Runner” for the prosthetic appendages he utilized while contending as a part of the Olympics and Paralympics as an expert sprint runner. His voice breaking with emotion, he said of his daughter: “I’m sure she’ll be able to rest as well now”. The top countries to report on the SCA’s ruling included the U.S. with 21.7% coverage, South Africa with 18.4%, the United Kingdom with 16.3% coverage and Germany which spent 12.3% of its news coverage on the athlete. “I feel it’s a fair decision that the judge gave”.

The appeal court judge, Justice Eric Leach, said he would have known that firing into the toilet cubicle would have led to death – but went ahead anyway.