For shooting his girlfriend to death and sentenced for six years imprisonment, South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius mays serve additional nine years in jail, if the plea by prosecution lawyer said through.
Agency report pointed that South African prosecutors has sustained pressing for nine additional years in prison for the Paralympics after being convicted of murdering his girlfriend.
The move is yet another twist in the now four-year-long saga that followed the 2013 shooting death of model Reeva Steenkamp.
On Friday, state prosecutor Andrea Johnson argued to the Supreme Court of Appeal that the sentence should be increased to 15 years. She argued, as the prosecution has previously, that Pistorius has shown little remorse.
“Yes, the respondent apologized,” she told the five-judge panel. “What did he apologize for? ‘I’m sorry.’ Sorry for what?”
Pistorius maintained he mistook his girlfriend of three months for an intruder and did not mean to kill her when he shot four times at a locked bathroom door, killing her.
Pistorius was re-sentenced last year after prosecutors successfully argued that his conviction should be upgraded from culpable homicide to murder. After the new conviction, a judge sentenced him to six years — a far cry from the 15-year minimum recommended under South African law.
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