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Crowd gathers outside court while awaiting ruling in Oscar trial
A growing number of people stood outside the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday as the judgment against paralympian Oscar Pistorius was being handed down.
People picket outside the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday, 11 September 2014 against the murder and abuse of women as judgment is handed down in the murder trial of paralympian Oscar Pistorius. Picture: Ihsaan Haffejee/SAPA
The ANC Women’s League continued to sing outside the court in support of the family of Reeva Steenkamp.
“Pantsi [Down] ngo Oscar, pantsi [down]! Rot in jail, Oscar, rot in jail!”, they chanted.
The Pistorius and Steenkamp family left courtroom GD as the case was adjourned for a lunch break before 1pm.
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Pistorius was seen huddling with his siblings after Judge Thokozile Masipa acquitted him of murder. She found that the evidence with regard to the murder charge was “purely circumstantial”.
Masipa was due to rule on culpable homicide, the unlawful killing of a person without an intention to kill, after the break.
Pistorius, 27, said he thought an intruder was behind the door of the toilet in his Pretoria home when he shot through it. He fired four times, killing Steenkamp on February 14, 2013.
The State argued the murder was premeditated.
Pistorius pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, and to three firearm-related charges.
– Sapa
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