Shortly after the Paralympics athlete, Oscar Pistorius was being sentenced to five years for culpable homicide for the killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, South African prosecutors have
won a bid to appeal the culpable homicide verdict handed down by South African judge Thokozile Masipa.
According to state prosecutor Gerrie Nel, said in his application to appeal on Tuesday that the judgement was “shockingly inappropriate” and requested permission to seek a murder conviction, which would carry a minimum 15 year jail term.
Judge Thokozile Masipa said prosecutors could appeal against the acquittal, but not the five-year sentence given for the lesser charge of culpable homicide
The case will now go before South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal.
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