2014: Paralympic Star Oscar Pistorius Sentenced to Five Years for Killing Reeva Steenkamp
Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic sprinter known as the Blade Runner, shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp four times through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home, insisting he believed an intruder was inside. A court accepted the defence and convicted him only of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter.
On 21 October 2014 he was sentenced to a maximum of five years imprisonment, and was released on parole for good behaviour within a year. In December 2015 an appeals court overturned the lesser verdict entirely, finding that Pistorius had in fact committed murder, and sent the case back for a harsher sentence.
