{"id":228440,"date":"2016-07-06T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T08:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=228440"},"modified":"2016-07-06T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T08:56:51","slug":"oscar-pistorius-sentenced-to-six-years-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=228440","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius sentenced to six years for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"8nfar-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8nfar-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8nfar-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"c0318-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c0318-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c0318-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"el9c0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"el9c0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"el9c0-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">He was taken immediately to jail. The prosecution and defence can appeal.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"dbok1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dbok1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dbok1-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"4l1h4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4l1h4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4l1h4-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The verdict comes after his initial five-year conviction for manslaughter was changed to murder last December after the prosecution appealed.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"981tn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"981tn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"981tn-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"d1j7t-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d1j7t-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d1j7t-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Pistorius, 29, shot Reeva Steenkamp four times through a locked toilet door in February 2013.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"4mlp2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4mlp2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4mlp2-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"a5dr0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a5dr0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a5dr0-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">He admitted shooting Ms Steenkamp but said he mistook her for an intruder and acted out of fear.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"qfea-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"qfea-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"qfea-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"blq32-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"blq32-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"blq32-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">In an hour-long session, Judge Thokozile Masipa said mitigating circumstances, such as rehabilitation and remorse, outweighed aggravating factors for deviating from the prescribed 15-year sentence for murder.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"4m8ep-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4m8ep-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4m8ep-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d04le\" data-offset-key=\"mmh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"mmh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"mmh-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Pistorius has already served one year in jail.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"mmh-0-0\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"mmh-0-0\">Credit: BBC<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. \u00a0 He was taken immediately to jail. The prosecution and defence can appeal. \u00a0 The verdict comes after his initial five-year conviction for manslaughter was changed to murder last December after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":228442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}