Instead of 6 years, a South African paralympic, devoid of both extremities, Oscar Pistorius, convicted of the murder of his girlfriend, blue-eyed fashion model Riva Stinkamp, will spend 13 years and 5 months in the cell. Today, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa passed a tough decision.
Loud business
About the death of Riva Stinkamp, which occurred in 2013, for the years since the tragedy, a lot has been said and written. Dry investigation documents without unnecessary emotions tell us that on February 14, Oscar Pistorius, after making several shots blindly through the door, killed the girl.
Further versions of the defense and charges begin to radically differ. The defendant and his lawyers assure that he accepted Riva for the robber, and the prosecutor and the relatives of the deceased speak of a deliberate murder.
Litigation
In 2014, Pistorius, found guilty of manslaughter, went to the cell for 5 years. Soon, imprisonment was replaced by a more comfortable house-arrest for the disabled, which aroused Stinkamp's family. They have achieved a revision of the verdict and the sportsman's affairs have become bad, since Riva's murder was retrained into intentional murder. At the same time, the term of imprisonment was increased by 1 year (up to 6 years), which again did not suit the mother and father of the victim.
Now the verdict of the appellate court, passed today, can not be called "shockingly indulgent". An athlete who, according to prosecutors, does not repent of the deed, the court extended the term of imprisonment to 13 years and 5 months.
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Under the South African laws of 15 years - the minimal term for premeditated murder. Last time the judge simply decided to soften the sentence on the same article.