Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has
been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an
earlier manslaughter verdict.
He killed his girlfriend Reeva
Steenkamp in February 2013 after shooting her four times through a locked
toilet door.
He is currently under house arrest
after spending one year of his original five-year sentence in jail.
Pistorius will have to return to
court to be re-sentenced, for murder.
It was earlier incorrectly reported
that the court had ruled the manslaughter verdict would remain.
Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears
several times during his trial
South Africa's Supreme Court of
Appeal ruled that the lower court did not correctly apply the rule of dolus
eventualis - whether Pistorius knew that a death would be a likely result of
his actions.
The minimum sentence for murder is
15 years but judges can apply some discretion.
South African law does not make
provision for someone to be placed under house arrest for more than five years,
so Pistorius will be going back to prison.
Source: BBC
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