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South Africa’s “Golden Boy” has fallen from grace, after Judge Thokozile Masipa sentenced him to five years imprisonment for culpable homicide, and three years wholly suspended for discharging of a firearm on 21 October.
Masipa said the charges will run concurrently.
Twenty months after Reeva Steenkamp was murdered, her parents might be able to find some sort of closure, with the case behind them.
The nation takes to twitter:
Only 5 years my Lady ! #OscarTrial and parole after 8 months my Lady?!
— Penny (@penepies) October 21, 2014
5 years for Oscar Pistorius is an absolute joke! Wow! #OscarPistorius #OscarTrial
— HD (@HeriAliMwapachu) October 21, 2014
#OscarTrial she should’ve just given him the 3yrs house arrest
— Mmat (@mmat_y) October 21, 2014
Well to be honest five years is better then no years #OscarTrial
— Tshidiso (@tshidiso_mrcool) October 21, 2014
you see why people in the kasi take justice into their own hands #OscarTrial
— Kagiso (@Kgee_1) October 21, 2014