Oscar Pistorius sentence

Reeva Steenkamp's family have said that they are satisfied with the outcome and the sentence he has been given. I think that's what matters in this tragic case.

There were previous comments about the lack of a jury system in South Africa, I've done some reading and for interest, "South Africa's legal system is a meld of the customary law system inherited from indigenous African cultures; a civil law Roman-Dutch system from the original Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th century and a common-law system from the British (adopted during the period of colonisation 1910 - 1961). The Roman-Dutch system is the bedrock, but broadly speaking the law governing criminal acts follow the English model. When SA abandoned the jury system, the jury was replaced by a system of assessors, experts in a particular field under scrutiny in a case.

Think it should have been longer. If it's 5yrs then he should IMHO serve the full 5yrs!

Shall we get this right Sunseeker. He has indeed to be sentenced to 5 years in prison of which he is likely to serve half (as in this country). He may, under the section he has been sentenced under, be moved to house arrest after 10 months. This was the maximum sentence he could be given.

I was listening to the report on the radio while driving, and thought at first that five years was about right for manslaughter. Then they said he'd have to serve at least ten months of supervised detention!

The report went on to say that as Pistorious has now been banned from taking part in any SA sport for five years, he'd miss the 2016 Olympics - well of course he will, he should be in prison!!!