Oscar Pistorius convicted of murder

Oscar Pistorius hopes for early freedom has been punctured after The Supreme Court of Appeal in South Africa on Thursday overturned his culpable homicide conviction for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, to murder.

Justice Eric Leach on Thursday upgraded the conviction of the six-time Paralympic champion to murder after detailing the case and the reasons he cannot accept Pistorius’s earlier version of events..