Lawyers have been presenting their final arguments on Friday to Judge Thokozile Masipa at the end of the double-amputee athlete's sentencing hearing.

Oscar Pistorius will not be allowed to compete in Paralympic sport until 2019 after he was sentenced to a maximum of five years in jail for the manslaughter of Reeva Steenkamp.

Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for the manslaughter of Reeva Steenkamp - but his legal team have claimed that he is expected to serve around 10 months in jail.

Boxer and former Birmingham City and Sheffield United striker Curtis Woodhouse has caused uproar on Twitter for messages on his profile ridiculing the Oscar Pistorius trial.

The disgraced athlete was led down to holding cells as he was handed a five-year prison term after the judge ruled that a non-custodial sentence would send the 'wrong message to the community'.

Star athlete Oscar Pistorius began serving a five year sentence behind the towering walls of a grim South African prison on Tuesday after a sensational trial for killing his girlfriend.

Convicted killer Oscar Pistorius is currently being assessed by prison authorities in Pretoria as to whether the Olympic star represents a suicide risk.

Prosecutors in the Oscar Pistorius case have consulted with a criminal law expert over a possible appeal, which means the Olympic runner could face a murder conviction again.

The athlete is believed to have paid his legal team as much as £5,400 a day to fight the charge that he murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his Pretoria home during a seven-month trial.

South African prosecutors have confirmed they will appeal Oscar Pistorius's manslaughter verdict and five-year prison sentence after failing to secure a murder conviction.

Prosecutors say they have filed appeal papers against the verdict and sentence in the Oscar Pistorius case after the South African athlete was acquitted of the most serious murder charge.

Prison bosses in Pretoria have told the Paralympian that he can't take part in their tagging scheme because the device cannot be properly monitored if it is fixed to a prosthetic leg.

June and Barry Steenkamp were given £340 a month by the athlete in a series of payments that began several weeks after he killed their daughter at his Pretoria home on Valentine's Day last year.

News of the unlikely partnership was revealed in a letter of complaint to prison authorities by Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir after a treadmill and exercise bike used by the pair were moved.

Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers have filed court papers opposing prosecutors move to appeal the verdict and sentence in his murder trial.

A South African judge says she will respond to the prosecution's appeal of the Oscar Pistorius verdict on Wednesday.

A South African judge has ruled that prosecutors can appeal the acquittal on murder charges of Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of culpable homicide in the death of Reeva Steenkamp.

Two years into his inexplicable illness, which rendered his body and mind useless, Martin Pistorius, of South Africa, says he began to wake up - only no one knew that.

Martin Pistorius spent eight years trapped inside his own body unable to speak or move. Now he reveals the abuse he suffered at the hands of the very people paid to look after him in South Africa.

News that Pistorius has been upgraded to category A status comes two years after he shot dead Reeva Steenkamp at his home in Pretoria on Valentine's Day.

June Steenkamp, mother of deceased South African model Reeva, does not want revenge on the man who killed her but says she knew nothing about Oscar Pistorius' 'guns and way of life'.

EXCLUSIVE: Gregg Peers, who is standing for the Tories in a Cumbria County Council by-election two weeks before the general election, posted the fancy dress picture on his Facebook page.

Shamed athlete Oscar Pistorius, 28, could be released from prison in South Africa in August – just 10 months after his conviction for Reeva Steenkamp's manslaughter.

The Olympic and Paralympic track star is currently serving a five year prison sentence after being convicted in October following a seven-month trial.

EXCLUSIVE: The athlete has been recommended as an ‘ideal candidate’ for new scheme - but the decision has been met with anger by the mother of Reeva Steenkamp, shot in Pistorius' Pretoria flat.

The family of Reeva Steenkamp, who was killed by Oscar Pistorius in 2013, released a poignant picture of their daughter aged 14 (pictured) today as his prison release on Friday was put on hold.

Oscar Pistorius had his cell searched in a dawn raid by prison officers suspicious of his friendship with an underworld figure. A hard drive was seized and is being analysed by police.

Oscar Pistorius is 'frail, gaunt and broken' his friend has revealed as the athlete waits to find out whether he will be granted parole ten months into his jail sentence.

Officials in South Africa's corrections department met on Friday to consider early release pleas, but ran out of time before getting to Pistorius, who is serving five years for culpable homicide.

Oscar Pistorius' case will be heard by South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal on November 3, when prosecutors will ask a panel of five judges to reject his trial verdict and convict him of murder.

The Paralympian star's lawyers have argued that he should have been released after serving one-sixth of his five-year jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

The Paralympian star's lawyers successfully argued that he should be released on house arrest after serving a year of his five-year jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

Pistorius was released last week after just a year in prison for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp through a locked toilet door in their bedroom in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013.

The convicted killer appears in a ‘selfie’ with rugby player Brett Sharman apparently during a recent evening reunion at the family mansion in Pretoria where he is under house arrest.

Killer Oscar Pistorius is 'coping fine' back at Pretoria's maximum security, after being presented with a specially-equipped bathroom, a new mattress and food preparation privileges.

The National Prosecuting Authority said it will appeal the sentence given to the 29-year-old Paralympian which would see him eligible for parole in just three years after the 2013 Valentine's Day murder.

He was jailed for six years for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home on Valentine's Day in 2013. The sentence was branded 'shockingly light' and a Supreme Court appeal has been lodged.

The Olympian was given 'compassionate leave' to attend the memorial service because he is considered 'low risk' by bosses at South Africa's Kgosi Mampuru jail.

The Supreme Court of Appeal in South Africa will hear the state's appeal against Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius' six-year murder sentence on November 3, it was announced today.

Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner Killer charts the run-up to the murder on Valentine's Day 2013 at his home in Pretoria, South Africa - and the courtroom dramas that followed.

Oscar Pistorius (pictured in 2016) has had his  jail sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp increased from six years to 13 years and 5 months by a South Africsa appeals court.

The former Paralympic athlete, 31, had asked South Africa's Constitutional Court to review the sentence, which was increased from six to 15 years in November.

Former Paralympian Oscar, 31, is serving a 15-year-sentence for the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29, who he blasted to death in his own bathroom in South Africa.

A 74-year-old woman in Newcastle and a 79-year-old man on the Northern Beaches died. Both people had been passengers on the ill-fated Ruby Princess cruise.

Two hospitals in Burnie, northwest Tasmania, were closed on Monday amid a cluster of more than 60 COVID-19 cases, including about 45 staff, associated with the facilities.

Luis Pitarma, 29, was one of the two nurses singled out for praise by Mr Johnson. His mother, speaking from Aveiro near the northern Portuguese city of Porto, has now told of her son's experience.

Five deaths and 81 infections are linked to a cluster on Tasmania's north west coast, forcing two hospitals to be shut down and more than 5,000 people including 1,200 hospital staff quarantined.

Ministers in New Zealand agreed to a 20 per cent cut on Wednesday but Prime Minister Scott Morrison said paycuts were 'not being considered' in Australia.

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said unless there is an unexpected surge in coronavirus cases over the next few days, New Zealand will ease lockdown.

Jacinda Ardern has announced the removal of the toughest measures from New Zealand's coronavirus clampdown.