Oscar Pistorius Is Found Guilty...

[Jomlett]

Oscar Pistorius is guilty of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp

The culpable homicide verdict is set aside.

Pistorius must return to the Pretoria high court for a new sentence.

[Jomlett]

Oscar Pistorius, now guilty of murder, is currently out of prison under house arrest.

The appeal court made no mention of this and it appears unlikely that he will be returned to jail right away.

It is not clear when the high court in Pretoria will reconvene for the fresh sentencing on the murder conviction.

[ummmm]

Good.

[murraymints]

GOOD..'bout time..disgraceful from the start....throw away his legs and make him repent !

[ummmm]

I can't believe anyone thought it was anything but murder.

I don't think he'll survive in prison.

[Hopkirk]

Oh he'll survive alright Ummmm.

He'll probably become the Grouty of his nick, running the shop with a team of nasties fawning over him.

[ummmm]

I don't know what South African jails are like but I was thinking more like him taking his own life.

[Hopkirk]

Let's hope so.

[ToraToraTora]

I think he is guilty but really what sort of system do they have where they can just alter the conviction after the event?

[anotheoldgit]

If at first you don't succeed try, try again.

Guilty of murder or not, it is disgusting the way this case has been handled.

[ChillDoubt]

I'm sure there'll be the inevitable appeal and that this saga will run for a few years yet.

[Jomlett]

The crux of the appeal, by the state, revolved around the legal concept of dolus eventualis, or indirect intention – in layman’s terms, the question of whether Pistorius had foreseen the possibility that he might kill somebody when he fired four shots into the bathroom door.

The appeals court ruled that trial judge, Thokozile Masipa, had applied this concept incorrectly, saying that her ruling was “confusing in various respects”.

[weecalf]

Did it not take the previous judge about 3 days reading out the verdict .

[ChillDoubt]

I actually typed counter appeal but the word counter was obviously lost somewhere in the ether......!

[ChillDoubt]

The pun is certainly not intended, but I've a feeling this will run and run:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-34989020

Many differing opinions from 'experts'. We'll just have to wait and see.

[Peter Pedant]

I couldnt understand the bit where
it was obvious that P intended to hurt otherwise you dont fine into a closed bog door
and so they said it wasnt murder when in English law it is

can anyone tell me if English law you now have to show an intention to murder or just an intention to hurt ?

The South African jurist in his fifteen minutes of fame has just bunged in constructive murder which has confused me

[Peter Pedant]

The jurist chilldo has just said it is tantamound to English Law with a smattering of Roman Dutch ( which is the common law system in the Netherlands before they imposed the Napoleonic code in 1806 )
oo-er
we may never know the answer !

[Jomlett]

South Africa’s supreme court of appeal has found Oscar Pistorius guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, overturning a previous conviction for culpable homicide.

The court has ordered the original trial judge in Pretoria to impose a harsher sentence. No date has been set for this hearing. The minimum sentence for murder is 15 years in prison.

[ummmm]

If he gets 15 years I reckon he'll top himself.

[DTCwordfan]

Roses are Red
Appeal Juges are Glorious
Off to Leeuhof Prison he goes
Mr. notorious Oscar Pistorius.

[viv41]

Absolutely gobsmacked that they didn't find him guilty of murder in the first place, especially after that overlong trial !! Hope he goes to jail for a very long time.