Supreme Court in South Africa’s has upgraded Oscar Pistorius’s culpable homicide conviction in the death of Reeva Steenkamp to murder.

Prosecutors wanted the conviction upgraded to one of murder. The argument was that Pistorius must have known that firing four bullets through the door of a tiny toilet cubicle could kill the person behind it.

Pistorious girlfriend, Steenkamp was killed in the athlete’s home in Pretoria in the early hours of 14 February 2013.

Pistorius is currently living under house arrest at his uncle’s home in Pretoria, having been freed from prison after serving less than a year behind bars. He must now return to the Pretoria high court for a new sentence.

Source:http://samhaykins.com/oscar-pistorius-conviction-in-death-of-reeva-steenkamp-upgraded-to-murder/