{Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday to five years imprisonment for the culpable homicide killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.}<\/p>\n
He was also sentenced to three years, suspended for five years, for firing a pistol under a table at Tasha’s restaurant in Johannesburg in January 2013.<\/p>\n
The sentences would run concurrently.<\/p>\n
Masipa said that Oscar Pistorius’s defence team’s suggestion that he should serve three years community service for killing Steenkamp “would not be appropriate”.<\/p>\n
Delivering her verdict, Masipa said the suggestion by defence witnesses would not be in the interest of justice.<\/p>\n
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