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robinph

Laois_Man wrote: »

How the feck does it make any sense that his excuse for murdering her (ie that he thought he was shooting at an intruder) which was deemed by the court system to have been lies, was then used by the same court system as a mitigating factor in his sentencing.

That judge is an absolute moron!

Are you on about the court of law or the court of social media?

The court of law did not disagree with Pistouris version of events. What you may have been reading on social media is irrelevant.

Muff Richardson

robinph wrote: »

The court of law did not disagree with Pistouris version of events.

And you know this much how? The court of law was restricted from throwing the book at him because for some inexplicable reason it could not be proven outright that he intentionally murderded her and was premeditated in a fit of rage, which we all know, social media included, is exactly what happened..

I would say the court of law very much disagrees with every single minute detail of his fictitious twisted waffle so they did him with whatever they could and used the law in their favour by getting him on the only technicality that they could. It's a crying shame he didn't get longer, he may not reoffend but he is a very twisted and sick individual, lets just hope his conscience rots in hell but I suspect he has not got one.

robinph

Muff Richardson wrote: »

And you know this much how? The court of law was restricted from throwing the book at him because for some inexplicable reason it could not be proven outright that he intentionally murderded her and was premeditated in a fit of rage, which we all know, social media included, is exactly what happened..

I would say the court of law very much disagrees with every single minute detail of his fictitious twisted waffle so they did him with whatever they could and used the law in their favour by getting him on the only technicality that they could. It's a crying shame he didn't get longer, he may not reoffend but he is a very twisted and sick individual, lets just hope his conscience rots in hell but I suspect he has not got one.

Well we know that the court did not disagree with his version of events because of the verdict that they found.

The prosecution were not able to provide evidence that his version of events didn't happen, and they also were not able to provide an alternative version that they could provide any evidence for.
They couldn't even manage to get him found guilty on the relatively simple case regarding the holding of unlicensed ammo/ weapons which would have had a minimum sentence of 15 years. They just decided to ignore pursuing that line for some daft reason despite their opening statement for the pre-meditated murder charge admitting that they had no evidence for it.

The initial investigating cop and the prosecution are to blame for him only getting a minimal sentence, not the judge.

Hande hoche!

See the prosecution is appealing against the length of the sentence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/21/south-africa-to-appeal-pistorius-six-year-murder-sentence/

Hande hoche!

Challenge by the prosecution has failed. They have 21 days to decide if they wish to take it to the Supreme court of Appeal. Wouldn't be surprised if they did.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37195090

Mushy

Sentence gone up to 15 years now. Much deserved for him.

Also delighted to see this thread title again!

seamus

There was speculation that he would be able to finish the tail-end of his athletic career and take up coaching or similar, under the original sentence; he would have been eligible for parole in 2019 and would be 33 at that point.

He won't be eligible now until 2023/24, so that's the end of that.

alchemist33

Much more appropriate sentence.

Hande hoche!

Prosecution will be relieved. We also have a forthcoming lifetime film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dQ20DXd380

FunGoose

Finally he gets the sentence he deserves.

That Lifetime movie looks awful!

Hande hoche!

FunGoose wrote: »

Finally he gets the sentence he deserves.

That Lifetime movie looks awful!

It was fairly bad all in all. Some of the things I learned from it including Oscar's penchant for pornography, him shooting a friend in the foot and an incident where he hit a dog with a car. He then killed the dog in front of another person. Not sure as to the factual accuracy....

JP Liz V1

No early release granted

JP Liz V1

Oscar Pistorius released on parole after serving half his sentence 

I'm surprised at this