Friday, December 4, 2015

Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder of Reeva

Posted by Anup Baral December 04, 2015 :


outh Africa's supreme court of appeal has found Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder Reeva Steenkamp.Pistorius claiming that Steenkamp’s death was an accident, Mark Seal delves into the murder case that has rocked the country, and the paths the couple took to that fatal night.Pistorius, a multiple Paralympic champion who made history as the first amputee to run at the Olympics in 2012 claim that he mistook his girlfriend for a nighttime intruder also was not a defence against murder, the prosecution appeal said, as there was no attack on him that justified killing in self-defence.The appeal papers were filed Tuesday at the North Gauteng High Court in the South African capital, Pretoria — the courthouse where Pistorius' trial was held. They were filed exactly two weeks after he was sentenced.

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