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Added on the 03/12/2015 17:02:58 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius is facing up to 15 years in jail after South Africa’s top appeals court on Thursday scaled up his conviction for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp from culpable homicide to murder.
South Africa's top court finds former president Jacob Zuma in contempt of court following his refusal to appear before a graft panel. SOUNDBITE
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
A British banker jailed for life for the horrifying murder of two Indonesian women at his upscale Hong Kong apartment in a cocaine-fuelled rampage arrives at court to appeal his conviction. IMAGES
South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius is due to be sentenced this week for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, following years of legal twists and turns.