Article: Pistorius sentenced to five years imprisonment

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday to five years imprisonment for the culpable homicide killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

He was also sentenced to three years, suspended for five years, for firing a pistol under a table at Tasha's restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013.
 
Seems fair. Just glad this over and we can get back to normality.
 
Very surprised that he will see the inside of a jail to be honest...
 
is he guaranteed to be in for 5 years or is it 6 months in the sick bay and then parole?
 
5 years for killing a person? **** me.
 
Great, now if we can only get the Dewani trial off the front page we can concentrate on the important stuff - Zuma and his benighted palace.
 
Only 10 months in prison.

"Pistorius must serve at least 1/6 of his sentence before house arrest considered - that is just over ten months," tweets Debora Patta.
 
Bet everybody's feeling regret for berating Oscar's drunken binges, there won't be any of those for 5 years! At least not outside his back yard..
 
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