INTRO: Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February last year. In reading out his sentence in court a short while ago, Judge Thokozile Masipa said it was important that the sentence reflects the need for justice to be done, without destroying more lives.
Pistorius received a five year prison sentence for the culpable homicide charge, and another three years, suspended for five years, for earlier firing a firearm in a public place.
This was the moment Judge Masipa handed down the sentence ...
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There's been no indication yet of the state or the defence appealing the sentence.