I've just watched the sentencing live. He was sentenced by the same judge who erred in the first case and caused it to be sent back for review. Supposedly the mandatory minimum for murder, the crime for which he was convicted, is fifteen years, however Judge Thokozile Masipa gave him...six. Six years for pumping four high-powered rounds through a bathroom door at a person whose identity he claimed not to know, a person who he knew had nowhere to hide from those rounds. To top it all off as Reeva Steenkamp's poor parents sat there they had to hear their daughter repeatedly referred to as "the deceased" without even the courtesy and dignity of her name.
I do hope there's a procedure for judicial recall in SA and this judge gets to go through it. So much blatant favouritism through both trials and sentencing phases, it makes me ill.
AIBU?
...to feel terrible for Reeva Steenkamp's parents as once again her murderer Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to far less than the mandatory minimum?
Proginoskes · 06/07/2016 10:04
From my experience with you on other threads, Green, you may well be making these remarks without actually reading my posts!
I would ask you where exactly you think the proof it about Oscar killing Reeva knowing who she was but let's just not because I have babies to bath and you seem more interested in my state of mind than the strength of your 'case'. Which indicates intellectual confusion to me - or laziness, one or the other 
At the end of the day, it's irrelevant. You've indicated that you think the sentence should be longer because of the nature of the conviction. I see that point of view. We have failed to move each other a particle from our respective viewpoints. Again. And we'll never get those minutes back....
Now if you'll excuse me...
Yes, Apricot, also the stomach contents evidence did not fit with Oscar's story, nor did the expert police ballistics evidence. The neighbours evidence shouldn't have been disregarded just because the Defence asserted "Oscar screamed like a girl (oh, but like a man at the same time) 
What nonsense.
Also - damage to bedroom door, to the bathroom cupboards, duvet on the floor, a man so paranoid about security, but going to sleep with balcony doors open and a ladder against the wall, reeva's bag packed (because she was a very neat and tidy person) but her jeans on the floor, neighbours saying the lights were on, when Oscar said they were sleeping in darkness.
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