Monday, October 20, 2014

Sentencing day looms for Pistorius

INTRO:  South African paralympic and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will know on Tuesday whether he will go to prison for shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. The athlete has already been found guilty of culpable homicide (manslaughter). The judge ruled a month ago that the state did not prove that Pistorius intended killing his girlfriend, therefore his version that he mistook her for an intruder was plausible. But South Africans are divided over the issue, as Gary Alfonso reports ...