via RadioVop Zimbabwe – SA Prosecution To Appeal Pistorius Case
South Africa’s National Prosecution Authority (NPA) will appeal paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s conviction of culpable homicide and the sentence he received.
“The appeal on conviction is based on the question of law,” NPA spokesman Nathi Mncube said in a statement.
“The merits and the demerits of the NPA’s argument in this regard will become evident when we file papers for leave to appeal.”
Last Tuesday, Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide killing of his girlfriend, law graduate and model Reeva Steenkamp.
For discharging a firearm at Tasha’s restaurant in January 2013, he was sentenced to three years in jail, suspended for five years.
The sentences would run concurrently, Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled.
Mncube said that Prosecutor Gerrie Nel and advocate Andrea Johnson had been studying the judgment, doing research and consulting legal experts to establish if there were sufficient grounds to lodge appeals.
“The prosecutors are now preparing the necessary papers in order to be able to file within the next few days.”
COMMENTS
Wonderful! How is it possible that you are sharing a bed with your girlfriend then you do not even find out if she is safe before shooting? He may not have planned it but it is as clear as daylight that when he short at the bathroom door he knew Reeva was in there.
He does something like that and gets five years, of which he may only serve 10 months while poachers get 40 year sentences for killing rhinos. Grossly inadequate. Judge Masipa betrayed the fight against domestic violence.