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Oscar Pistorius was convicted of murder on Thursday by South Africa’s
Supreme Court of Appeal, which threw out his earlier conviction on a
lesser charge for shooting dead his girlfriend in 2013.
Pistorius is now set to go back to jail after he was released on parole in
October having served one year of his five-year sentence for culpable
homicide — the equivalent of manslaughter.
“Guilty of murder, with the accused having criminal intent,” judge Eric
Leach told the court in a dramatic legal reversal.
“The matter is referred back to the trial court to consider an appropriate
sentence.”
The 29-year-old star Paralympic sprinter shot dead Reeva Steenkamp, a
model and law graduate, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day two years
ago.
He said during his trial that he mistook her for an intruder when he
opened fire at the locked door of his bedroom toilet.
“He did not know whether that person constituted any threat,” Leach
said in a damning rejection of the testimony from Pistorius and the
original trial judge’s ruling.
“It is inconceivable that a rational person thought he was entitled to fire
at this person with a heavy-duty firearm,” said Leach, who described
Pistorius’s testimony as “vacillating and untruthful”.
“He must have foreseen that the person behind the door might be
injured.
“He ought to have been convicted not of culpable homicide… but of
culpable murder.”
Pistorius, who was not be present in court in Bloemfontein, South
Africa’s judicial capital, now faces a minimum of 15 years in prison for
murder.
Awaiting his new sentence, he is likely to remain under house arrest at
his uncle’s mansion in the capital Pretoria.
– Dramatic trial –
His trial attracted worldwide attention as he denied killing Steenkamp in
a rage after the couple had gone to bed.
“I was overcome with fear,” he said while in the dock, describing how he
thought he heard an intruder in the bathroom.
He grabbed his gun, and rushed without his prostheses to the bathroom.
“Before I knew it, I’d fired four shots at the door,” he said, adding that
he ran back to the bed only to find that Steenkamp was not there.
Pistorius killed Steenkamp at the peak of his fame, following his historic
performance in London in 2012 when he became the first double-
amputee to race at Olympic level.
Last month he made his first appearance in public since leaving jail
when he reported for community service at a police station in Pretoria.
A Pistorius family spokesman said no statement would be released after
Thursday’s verdict.
Steenkamp’s mother June was in court, but made no immediate
comment.
His parole conditions have not been made public, but are reported to
require him to meet with Steenkamp’s parents if they wish.
Pistorius may make his own appeal to South Africa’s Constitutional
Court — the country’s highest court.
But defence lawyers say he cannot afford further legal battles, having
already paid huge bills.
In the aftermath of the killing, the Paralympic gold medallist lost his
glittering sports career, lucrative contracts and status as a global role
model for the disabled.

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Oscar Pistorius was convicted of murder on Thursday by South Africa’s
Supreme Court of Appeal, which threw out his earlier conviction on a
lesser charge for shooting dead his girlfriend in 2013.
Pistorius is now set to go back to jail after he was released on parole in
October having served one year of his five-year sentence for culpable
homicide — the equivalent of manslaughter.
“Guilty of murder, with the accused having criminal intent,” judge Eric
Leach told the court in a dramatic legal reversal.
“The matter is referred back to the trial court to consider an appropriate
sentence.”
The 29-year-old star Paralympic sprinter shot dead Reeva Steenkamp, a
model and law graduate, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day two years
ago.
He said during his trial that he mistook her for an intruder when he
opened fire at the locked door of his bedroom toilet.
“He did not know whether that person constituted any threat,” Leach
said in a damning rejection of the testimony from Pistorius and the
original trial judge’s ruling.
“It is inconceivable that a rational person thought he was entitled to fire
at this person with a heavy-duty firearm,” said Leach, who described
Pistorius’s testimony as “vacillating and untruthful”.
“He must have foreseen that the person behind the door might be
injured.
“He ought to have been convicted not of culpable homicide… but of
culpable murder.”
Pistorius, who was not be present in court in Bloemfontein, South
Africa’s judicial capital, now faces a minimum of 15 years in prison for
murder.
Awaiting his new sentence, he is likely to remain under house arrest at
his uncle’s mansion in the capital Pretoria.
– Dramatic trial –
His trial attracted worldwide attention as he denied killing Steenkamp in
a rage after the couple had gone to bed.
“I was overcome with fear,” he said while in the dock, describing how he
thought he heard an intruder in the bathroom.
He grabbed his gun, and rushed without his prostheses to the bathroom.
“Before I knew it, I’d fired four shots at the door,” he said, adding that
he ran back to the bed only to find that Steenkamp was not there.
Pistorius killed Steenkamp at the peak of his fame, following his historic
performance in London in 2012 when he became the first double-
amputee to race at Olympic level.
Last month he made his first appearance in public since leaving jail
when he reported for community service at a police station in Pretoria.
A Pistorius family spokesman said no statement would be released after
Thursday’s verdict.
Steenkamp’s mother June was in court, but made no immediate
comment.
His parole conditions have not been made public, but are reported to
require him to meet with Steenkamp’s parents if they wish.
Pistorius may make his own appeal to South Africa’s Constitutional
Court — the country’s highest court.
But defence lawyers say he cannot afford further legal battles, having
already paid huge bills.
In the aftermath of the killing, the Paralympic gold medallist lost his
glittering sports career, lucrative contracts and status as a global role
model for the disabled.

Dude nor send dem

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A heavily armed man and woman in their 20s died in a shootout with
police after killing 14 people at a Christmas party in California in
America’s worst mass shooting in three years, authorities said.
Police identified the pair as Syed Farook, a 28-year-old US citizen who
worked for the local county, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, whose nationality
was unknown. They said the suspects were either married or engaged.
Jarrod Burguan, San Bernardino’s police chief, confirmed that both were
dead, and that police no longer believed a third suspect mentioned
earlier was at large.
The shooters targeted a year-end party taking place at a social services
center in San Bernardino, about an hour’s drive east of Los Angeles,
killing 14 people and wounding 17 more.
“We don’t have the motive at this point,” the police chief said. “We
have not ruled out terrorism.”
The massacre drew an angry response from President Barack Obama,
who once again urged Congress to pass tougher gun control measures to
stem America’s epidemic of gun violence.
According to Burguan, Farook was an environmental inspector who had
worked for the county health department for five years.
He and Malik were dressed in military-style gear and carried assault
weapons as they burst into the auditorium where the bloodbath took
place. The hall was let out for the holiday party by the Inland Regional
Center for the disabled.
Burguan said Farook had attended the Christmas party organized by the
health department and left after an apparent dispute, only to return a
short time later with Malik, armed with assault rifles and semiautomatic
handguns.
“Based upon how they were equipped, there had to be some degree of
planning that went into this,” he said. “I don’t think they just ran home
and put on these tactical clothes, grabbed guns and came back on a spur
of the moment thing.”
– ‘Twisted mindset’ –
He said the attackers left explosive devices behind and authorities were
only able to access the scene of the crime several hours after the
shooting.
There was no immediate information on the identity of the victims.
FBI agents in the early evening raided an apartment in the nearby town
of Redlands, where the two suspects were seen before the police chase
that ended in a shootout a few miles from the Inland Center.
The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) denounced the killings. Farook’s brother-in-law, Farhan Khan,
said he had no clue what prompted the carnage.
“I am in shock that something like this could happen,” a visibly shaken
Khan told a press conference organized by CAIR.
The Los Angeles Times quoted some of Farook’s co-workers as saying
he had previously traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a new wife.
The couple had a six-month-old daughter and appeared to be “living the
American dream,” Patrick Baccari, a fellow inspector who shared a
cubicle with Farook, told the paper.
Hussam Ayloush, CAIR’s executive director in Los Angeles, said: “The
Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow
Americans in repudiating any twisted mindset that would claim to
justify such sickening acts of violence.”
– Deadliest since Sandy Hook –
It was the country’s deadliest shooting since December 14, 2012, when a
young man killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook
elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Witnesses at the California scene recounted barricading themselves in
offices and hiding as the sound of gunfire erupted.
Mark Stutte said his daughter was attending the party organized by the
county’s public health department and called him terrified while hiding
in a restroom as gunshots rang out in the background.
“It was really, really super scary,” he told local TV, as he wept. “I’m far
away. I couldn’t do anything for her.”
Lavinia Johnson, the center’s executive director, said she and her staff
hid in another building on the property for about two hours until they
were evacuated by police.
The local San Bernardino newspaper The Sun identified one of the
victims as Jennifer Stevens who underwent surgery for a gunshot wound
to the abdomen and was expected to recover.
It said Stevens, 22, had texted her mother right after the shooting saying:
“Mom, I’m at work, I’ve been shot.”
– ‘Pattern of mass shootings’ –
Obama, who just last week made a plea for action on gun control after
three people were killed at a family planning center in Colorado, voiced
his anger once more.
“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass
shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the
world,” he told CBS News.
“There are some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these
mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as
frequently.”
Wednesday’s shooting, which came less than a week after a gunman
killed three people at a family planning center in Colorado, was certain
to further stoke the bitter debate about gun control in the United States.
In October, a gunman killed nine people at a community college in
Oregon before turning the gun on himself.
According to the site Mass Shooting Tracker, the latest attack brings to
352 the number of mass shootings in the United States so far this year. A
mass shooting is defined as four or more people shot in one incident.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday vowed never to forget
Turkey’s downing of one of Moscow’s warplanes, as he lashed out once
again at the leadership in Ankara over the incident.
“We will not forget this complicity with terrorists. We always
considered and will always consider treachery to be the ultimate and
lowest act. Let those in Turkey who shot our pilots in the back know
this,” Putin told lawmakers in his annual state of the nation address.
Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a furious war of words over
Turkey’s downing of a Russian plane along its border with Syria on
November 24, with Moscow accusing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
profiting from the oil trade with Islamic State jihadists.
“We know for example who in Turkey fills their pockets and allows
terrorists to make money from the stolen oil in Syria,” Putin said.
“It is precisely with this money that the bandits recruit mercenaries, buy
arms and organise inhuman terrorist acts aimed against our citizens, the
citizens of France, Lebanon, Mali and other countries.”
Russia has announced sanctions against Ankara banning the import of
some Turkish food and reintroducing visas for visitors from the country,
and Putin insisted Turkey would be made to regret its actions.
“We will not rattle our sabres. But if someone thinks that after
committing heinous war crimes, the murder of our people, it will end
with tomatoes and limitations in construction and other fields, then they
are deeply mistaken,” Putin said.
“We will not stop reminding them of what they did and they will not
stop regretting their actions.”
Putin said that given a push to improve relations with Ankara in recent
years, Moscow did not understand why its rival in the Syria war had
downed its jet.
“Only Allah, most likely, knows why they did this. And evidently Allah
decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey by depriving them of their
intelligence and reason.”

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