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South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for fatally shooting his girlfriend on Valentine's Day of last year and to three years suspended for a firearms offence. Judge Thokozile Masipa last month acquitted the double amputee sprinter of the charge of murder over Reeva Steenkamp's death but she found him guilty of culpable homicide, South Africa’s equivalent of manslaughter.
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A parole board is expected to decide if South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius should be released from prison early, a decade after he killed his girlfriend, a lawyer for the victim's family says outside the correctional facility where the parole hearing was taking place. "We have been advised that there will be a decision later today." SOUNDBITE
Reeva Steenkamp's lawyer and mother arrive at Atteridgeville prison in Pretoria ahead of a parole hearing for South African former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius that could see his early release for killing his then girlfriend in 2013. IMAGES
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