Earlier the Paralympian was sentenced in the High Court in Pretoria to five years imprisonment for the culpable homicide killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa also sentenced him to three years, suspended for five years, for firing a pistol under a table at Tasha’s restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013. The sentences would run concurrently.
Pistorius shook hands with his family members, as the police escorted him to the holding cells. It’s not clear if the state will appeal the sentence. They have 14 days to do so.
The Pistorius family said they will not appeal.
