Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, nicknamed Blade Runner for his prosthetic legs, is up for parole for the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
began in the High Court of South Africa before Judge Thokozile Masipa, who would ultimately decide Pistorius’ fate.
"I wake up every morning and you’re the first people I think of, the first people I pray for," he said."I can’t imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness I’ve caused you and your family. I was simply trying to protect Reeva." Without his prosthetics, Pistorius said he felt vulnerable and slept with a gun under his bed. Violent home invasions are common in the country, which has one of theProsecutors argued that the bullet holes in the door and Steenkamp’s wounds contradicted his claims.
A photo combination of the bullet-riddled bathroom stall door that Oscar Pistorius shot through to kill Reeva Steenkamp, and, on the right, a floorplan of his home. Pistorius and Steenkamp had no known history of domestic violence during their three-month courtship, and none of his ex-girlfriends had accused him of physical abuse.Although Judge Thokozile Masipa said she found Pistorius’ testimony inconsistent and contradictory, she acquitted him of murder. She found him guilty of culpable homicide, a charge similar to manslaughter in the U.S.
Oscar Pistorius leaving court Sept. 12, 2014, after he is acquitted of murder and convicted of culpable homicide. She also rejected the prosecution’s assertion that the couple had a vicious row before the murder, calling it speculation and a"misperception." But Pistorius had to first meet with Steenkamp’s parents as part of the parole application process, which is known as victim-offender dialogue.
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