{"id":71241,"date":"2014-10-21T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=71241"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T09:19:21","slug":"oscar-pistorius-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/21\/oscar-pistorius-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted killer\u00a0Oscar Pistorius was today (Tuesday) sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The judgement was handed down by Judge Thokozile Masipa in the High Court in Pretoria.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Masipa ruled that Pistorius was gulity of culpable homicide on September 12, in the death of Reeva Steenkamp, who he shot and killed on Valentine\u2019s Day 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius was also found guilty of the negligent discharging of a firearm at Tasha&#8217;s restaurant in Melrose Arch, for which he received a sentence of three years imprisonment, wholly suspended for five years.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The two terms will be served concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel justice has been served?<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='4b111639a261f2e73142ca964dcf24e1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Judge Thokozile Masipa has sentenced Oscar Pistorius to five years in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":71245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1041,1008,989,1012,1106,979,969,2730,4771,999,2975,998,5262],"class_list":["post-71241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-oscar-pistorius","tag-police","tag-pretoria","tag-saps","tag-sentence"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["arrests","court","crime","East Rand","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","oscar pistorius","police","pretoria","SAPS","sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}