Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in jail for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but he could be released after 10 months!
The double-amputee sprinter, 27, admitted killing the model and TV presenter at his home in Pretoria in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year.
He said it was a tragic accident when he mistook Reeva for an intruder and opened fire on his bathroom door. But Pistorius was arrested and charged with murder.
Following a two-month trial, he was acquitted but found guilty of culpable homicide.
Today, Judge Thokozile Masipa sentenced him to five years in jail.
He was also given a three-year suspended jail sentence for a separate firearms charge.
According to legal observers, Pistorius could spend only ten months in jail and, provided he poses no trouble to the prison authorities, could spend the remainder of his sentence under correctional supervision at home.
He is expected to be sent to a high-security wing at the gang-ridden Pretoria Central Prison, where one criminal kingpin has already threatened to 'take him out'.
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