After escaping murder sentence yesterday Sept 11, Oscar Pistorius has been found guiltily of manslaughter of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Summary of judge Thokozile Masipa verdict as as follows;
- That Oscar Pistorius "negligent" on the night he killed the model at his Pretoria home.
- Judge Masipa criticised Pistorius' decision to reach for his gun and open fire rather than raise the alarm or fire a warning shot.She had also accused him of being a poor witness, muddled over his defence and a liar.
- Thokozile Masipa said ‘a reasonable person therefore, in the position of the accused with similar disabilities would have foreseen that the possibility that whoever was behind the door might be killed by the shots. And would have taken steps to avoid the consequences and the accused in this matter failed to take those consequences."
- That Having regard to the totality of this evidence in this matter, the unanimous decision of this court is the following: on count one, murder ... the accused found not guilty and is discharged. "Instead he is found guilty of culpable homicide."
- Pistorius was found guilty of discharging a firearm at a restaurant on January 11, 2013. But he was acquitted of firing a gun through a car sunroof while with his then-girlfriend Samantha Taylor and friend Darren Fresco on November 30, 2012.
- He was also cleared of illegally possessing .38 ammunition. Pistorius denied all the charges.
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