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Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius will be back in the in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday for a quick appearance ahead of formal sentencing proceedings.

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

Johann Engelbrecht, a criminal lawyer who is not involved in the Pistorius case, said it is doubtful that the former athlete’s lawyers could challenge the murder conviction by appealing to the Constitutional Court.

Prosecutors in South Africa are pushing for Oscar Pistorius to appear in court as soon as possible so a date can be set for his sentencing, after the country’s top appeal court returned a murder verdict. Firstly, she had failed to correctly apply the legal principle of...

“‘No warrant has been issued, if it was we would have said so”, NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku told News24.

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He was originally convicted of culpable homicide – akin to manslaughter – after a long-running trial under the glare of the world’s media. He is facing a much heftier sentence as murder carries a minimum of 15 years in jail.

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In what has been described as a “shocking twist”, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeal overturned the previous ruling of culpable homicide.

The judge described the Paralympian’s testimony over the 2013 shooting of Reeva Steenkamp as “untruthful” and delivered a damning indictment of the original verdict.

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In September 2014, Pistorius, 29, was convicted of manslaughter, or culpable homicide, for the shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013.

“Guilty of murder, with the accused having criminal intent”, judge Eric Leach told the court in South Africa’s judicial capital Bloemfontein in a dramatic legal reversal.

However, an appeals court has now overturned the original verdict, meaning he will have to return to court to be re-sentenced for murder.