Prosecutor: Jail Pistorius for 10 years
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THE hollow-point bullets fired by Oscar Pistorius from his powerful handgun “ripped” through Reeva Steenkamp’s body, the chief prosecutor said yesterday at the end of the athlete’s sentencing hearing, urging a judge to send him to prison for at least 10 years.
“When I think about that, it must have been horrific,” prosecutor Gerrie Nel said.
Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to announce Pistorius’ sentence on Tuesday, after she found him guilty last month of culpable homicide for negligently killing Steenkamp, but acquitted him of murder. Nel and chief defense lawyer Barry Roux presented their final arguments for sentencing yesterday.
Nel said to Judge Masipa: “the minimum term that society will be happy with is 10 years in prison.”
It was the first time prosecutors have said what sentence they are seeking for the double-amputee Olympic runner for shooting his girlfriend.
Masipa could issue a suspended sentence and a fine, order the 27-year-old Paralympic champion to go under house arrest, or jail him for up to 15 years.
Pistorius’ lawyers have argued for a three-year sentence of occasional house arrest and community service.
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