Former Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has filed papers to South Africa’s Constitutional Court appealing against his 13-year jail term for shooting dead his girlfriend, a lawyer for the victim’s family said Tuesday.
A court last month increased Pistorius’s sentence for murdering Reeva Steenkamp to 13 years in the latest stage of a long court battle since his trial in 2014.
Pistorius shot dead Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013 when he fired four times through the door of his bedroom toilet, later saying that he thought she was an intruder.
“We respect the law. It is Oscar Pistorius’s constitutional right to appeal his sentence. The law must take its course,” Tania Koen, a lawyer for the Steenkamp family, stated.
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