| Reeva Steenkamp |
Oscar
Pistorius leaves the Court after the postponement hearing in his murder case on
April 18, 2016
Pretoria (AFP) - A South African court
will convene in June to determine disgraced Paralympic athlete Oscar
Pistorius's sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a judge said
in Pretoria on Monday.
Pistorius's lawyers last month failed in
their final legal bid to reverse a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment that
upgraded his conviction from culpable homicide the equivalent of manslaughter
to murder.
The double-amputee killed Steenkamp, a
model and law graduate, in the early hours of Valentine's Day three years ago,
saying he mistook her for an intruder when he shot four times through the door
of his bedroom toilet.
According to report, the matter is
postponed until June 13, and it will be heard until June 17, said Judge Aubrey
Ledwaba
The former Paralympic champion, 29,
faces a minimum 15-year jail term for murder, which may be reduced due to time
he has already spent in prison.
He was released from jail in October to
live under house arrest at his uncle's property in Pretoria after serving one
year of his five-year sentence for culpable homicide.
Appeal judges in December described his
testimony at his trial in 2014 as untruthful
and delivered a damning indictment of the original verdict and found him guilty of murder,
overruling the culpable homicide conviction.
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