Arrest Warrant Reportedly Issued For Oscar Pistorius

The warrant of arrest was isued by South Africa’s prosecuting authority.

Prosecutors in South Africa have issued a warrant of arrest for Oscar Pistorius after he was convicted of murder, according to reports.

The Paralympian was originally convicted of culpable homicide – similar to manslaughter – after a trial.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned a lower court’s manslaughter conviction.

Pistorius shot Steenkamp through the door of a toilet cubicle at his home early on Valentine’s Day 2013.

Prosecutors said he killed her after an argument.

Pistorius killed Steenkamp at the peak of his fame, and he has since lost his glittering sports career, lucrative contracts and status as a global role model for the disabled.

Mr. Mosetihe said some sections of the public felt that “the first judgment was not justified” and that Oscar was initially supposed to have been convicted for murder.

In South Africa, however, the minimum sentence for murder is 15 years, although judges are able to apply some discretion.

The appeal court ruling said the original trial judge had made “fundamental” errors in her ruling, and sent the case back to trial court for re-sentencing.

The Telegraph quoted the source as saying: ‘I’m personally relieved, I think justice has now been done. Perhaps it’s even a relief for him too – he’s not living a lie any more’.

But in a unanimous decision, the five judges of the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that Pistorius, well-trained in weapons, must have known that someone would die when he opened fire.

Pistorius spent a year in jail in the hospital wing of Pretoria’s Kgosi Mampuru II Prison, in a narrow single room with a metal bed, a wash basin, a table, yellow walls, blue prison sheets, a cupboard and a window high in the wall.