Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in jail for culpable homicide – Bill Dixon, Professor of Criminology
October 21, 2014
Oscar Pistorius has finally been sentenced, to what his judge described as “a sentence that is fair and just, both to society and to the accused”: for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp, he will serve a prison term of five years. For a firearms offence of which he was also found guilty, he received …