Cape Town - South Africa’s highest court has denied paralympian Oscar Pistorius leave to appeal his murder conviction, the country’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Thursday.
“We can confirm that the Constitutional Court has denied his [Pistorius’s] appeal due to the lack of prospects of success,” said NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku.
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South Africa’s Constitutional Court is the highest court in the land, and was the last resort for the Paralympian to stay out of jail for the 2013 kiling of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius has been out on bail and living at his uncle’s Waterkloof, Pretoria mansion since late last year when the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal overturned his earlier conviction of culpable homicide.
African News Agency
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