South African lawyers to appeal Oscar Pistorius' 6-year sentence for being too lenient

South African prosecutors said today they would push for a longer sentence for Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who was jailed for six years earlier this month for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.



Popular sprint champion Pistorius shot his girlfriend, a model and law graduate, in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013, saying he mistook her for a burglar when he fired four times through the door of his bedroom toilet.

'The sentence of six years imprisonment, in all the circumstances, is disproportionate to the crime of murder committed (and) shockingly too lenient,' the National Prosecuting Authority said in a strongly worded statement.

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