:00:10. > :00:18.The athlete Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of culpable homicide over
:00:19. > :00:31.the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
:00:32. > :00:37.The accused acted negligently when he fired shots into the toilet door.
:00:38. > :00:39.There was very little room in which to manoeuvre.
:00:40. > :00:47.I'm Karin Gianone live outside the court in Pretoria where
:00:48. > :00:52.The court must decide whether Oscar Pistorius will be freed on bail
:00:53. > :00:57.until his sentence. US Secretary of State John Kerry
:00:58. > :00:59.heads to Turkey, seeking more support for action against Islamic
:01:00. > :01:12.State militants in Iraq and Syria. The South African athlete
:01:13. > :01:19.Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide, also
:01:20. > :01:20.known as manslaughter, for shooting The judge said the athlete had acted
:01:21. > :01:26.negligently when he used his gun but she cleared him of murder, saying
:01:27. > :01:50.the prosecution had failed to prove Thank you. We are waiting for
:01:51. > :01:55.proceedings to resume again. It has been a morning in which we have
:01:56. > :02:03.heard a decision on every single charge which Oscar Pistorius faced.
:02:04. > :02:07.He faced the lesser firearms charges and then the murder charge,
:02:08. > :02:16.premeditated charge of Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Masipa said he was
:02:17. > :02:19.not guilty of murder, but has convicted him of culpable homicide.
:02:20. > :02:27.Let's take you back to the exact words she used earlier. Mr
:02:28. > :02:42.Pistorius, please stand up. The unanimous decision of this court is
:02:43. > :02:48.the following. On current one, murder the accused is found not
:02:49. > :02:58.guilty and is discharged. Instead, she is found guilty of culpable
:02:59. > :03:08.homicide. We are waiting the continuing our --
:03:09. > :03:10.arguments over whether Oscar Pistorius will be granted bail or
:03:11. > :03:15.not. He has been on bail for the last 18 months and been living at
:03:16. > :03:21.his uncle's house. The defence is our giving you should be able to
:03:22. > :03:25.stay on bail in that situation until the sentencing hearing begins. The
:03:26. > :03:29.prosecution has argued that he is now a convicted criminal and should
:03:30. > :03:33.not be granted bail for this very serious offence of culpable
:03:34. > :03:45.homicide. With me is a former High Court judge. What have you made of
:03:46. > :03:49.what we have seen today? I was surprised as far as the finding is
:03:50. > :03:56.concerned on the culpable homicide case. When you deal with a
:03:57. > :04:03.reasonable person, that reasonable person must find himself in the same
:04:04. > :04:07.position. You would say to yourself, a reasonable person, who thought
:04:08. > :04:13.there was a criminal behind the door and who was at risk, unless you can
:04:14. > :04:19.see that you would definitely not have fired the shots, you would have
:04:20. > :04:29.to give Oscar Pistorius reasonable doubt. In that sense, I think she is
:04:30. > :04:37.wrong. But she was correct as far as the law was concerned, just the
:04:38. > :04:42.application of the effect. He must have known there was somebody behind
:04:43. > :04:47.the door, but she did not see any of the evidence before her as being
:04:48. > :04:58.enough to kill. There was no such proof. She rejected the seat's
:04:59. > :05:07.evidence. -- state's evidence. For that, she was left with evidence of
:05:08. > :05:14.the accused. She was in a difficult position that she accepted his
:05:15. > :05:16.evidence as far as the subject of contention was concerned, that is
:05:17. > :05:26.why she found him not guilty. She therefore find, as effect, that the
:05:27. > :05:29.accused was facing a great, was freezing somebody on the inside, was
:05:30. > :05:35.running the risk that the person could come out, was running the risk
:05:36. > :05:43.that he could kill him. To be so subjective is a problem because they
:05:44. > :05:50.fear must be considered. Again, because the onus is not on him, she
:05:51. > :05:56.could say, I do not accept this, but there is a reasonable possibility.
:05:57. > :06:00.Then she would have acquitted him. To say that a reasonable man would
:06:01. > :06:05.stand there and would face exactly the same, can you say that a
:06:06. > :06:11.reasonable man would not have done that? He would have been scared, he
:06:12. > :06:16.would have faced someone, probably a criminal, so the same facts would
:06:17. > :06:23.apply and that is why she would have to be very correct in her approach.
:06:24. > :06:29.But I must emphasise, because she has made a good judgement, she has
:06:30. > :06:35.given a good judgement, she has measured everything she has said.
:06:36. > :06:40.Thank you very much for the moment. What exactly does this charge of
:06:41. > :06:48.culpable homicide mean for Oscar Pistorius? My colleague looks at the
:06:49. > :06:53.applications are being found guilty. Oscar Pistorius, shortly after he
:06:54. > :06:59.had killed Reeva Steenkamp. From the very beginning, he insisted it was a
:07:00. > :07:06.terrible mistake, that he and Reeva seen arriving at his home a few
:07:07. > :07:11.hours earlier, they were very much in love. I was trying to protect
:07:12. > :07:17.Reeva. When she went to bed that night, she felt loved. In court,
:07:18. > :07:20.Oscar Pistorius maintained that he shot through his bathroom door,
:07:21. > :07:29.convinced an intruder had broken into his home. His grief and regret
:07:30. > :07:38.were compelling. I sat and cried, I don't know how long, I don't know
:07:39. > :07:46.how long I was there for. She wasn't breathing. Oscar Pistorius's defence
:07:47. > :07:53.made much of the athlete's vulnerability, of a disabled man
:07:54. > :07:58.confronting a perceived threat. His capacity to what the Burgess
:07:59. > :08:03.produces is pure, he could easily be pushed over. When exposed to a
:08:04. > :08:10.threat, Mr Pistorius is more likely to respond with a fight response
:08:11. > :08:15.rather than a flight response. The prosecution sought to show that
:08:16. > :08:18.there is a darker side to Oscar Pistorius, his obsession with guns,
:08:19. > :08:24.his quick temper and it questioned how the athlete could have made such
:08:25. > :08:29.a terrible mistake. When you shouted and screamed at
:08:30. > :08:33.Beaver to phone the police, she was a 3 metres away from you. And she
:08:34. > :08:39.never uttered a word. That is correct. It is not probable. At the
:08:40. > :08:42.heart of this case was the question of what Oscar Pistorius was thinking
:08:43. > :08:48.when he shot four times through the toilet door. I heard this noise and
:08:49. > :08:54.I thought it was somebody coming out to attack me so I fired. Your
:08:55. > :09:04.defence has now changed from putative self-defence to involuntary
:09:05. > :09:11.action. I do not understand the law, I can only reply to what I am asked
:09:12. > :09:17.to stop today's verdict suggests that the judge believed Pistorius's
:09:18. > :09:25.explanation. I believe that the judge was speed by his demeanour on
:09:26. > :09:29.the stand. The judge was Swede by evidence procured by the defence,
:09:30. > :09:33.including the psychological impact his childhood may have had on him,
:09:34. > :09:39.as well as the experts were brought in by the defence. This is almost
:09:40. > :09:42.certainly the best verdict Oscar Pistorius could have hoped for. It
:09:43. > :09:46.means the prosecution failed to convince the judge that the athlete
:09:47. > :09:54.meant to kill anybody. But it still meant the judge found him criminally
:09:55. > :09:59.negligent. Some of Reeva's Steenkamp's friends have already
:10:00. > :10:04.criticised the verdicts. It does not surprise me. It is pretty much what
:10:05. > :10:10.I expected from the outset. He can afford the best possible defence and
:10:11. > :10:18.private investigators to support his case. Oscar Pistorius has yet to be
:10:19. > :10:21.sentenced. A prison term is very likely, up to 15 years. But the
:10:22. > :10:30.judge has the option to fine him and freedom. --
:10:31. > :10:38.let's discuss this with the former High Court judge. If you were
:10:39. > :10:42.sitting before this court, and presiding over this case, what now
:10:43. > :10:49.would you be looking at in terms of sentencing? There are two sets of
:10:50. > :10:57.facts that one could consider. There were aggravating circumstances, and
:10:58. > :11:02.mitigating circumstances. Let's look at the aggravating circumstances. It
:11:03. > :11:10.is arguable that he should not have fired the shots. Subjectively, as
:11:11. > :11:19.far as blameworthy business is concerned, that is a proposition the
:11:20. > :11:22.judge is facing. As far as the fact that he did not ensure that his
:11:23. > :11:27.girlfriend was still in bed, he just walked out, the answer to that is
:11:28. > :11:32.there was no reason to suspect that she was not in the bed next to him.
:11:33. > :11:38.She would have to follow that direction and those arguments. As
:11:39. > :11:43.far as mitigating is concerned, you are again faced with a situation
:11:44. > :11:50.where he found himself in a precarious position as far as safety
:11:51. > :11:53.is concerned, with his shortcomings, with his psychological problems, you
:11:54. > :12:00.need to take into account that blameworthy this -- his blameworthy
:12:01. > :12:07.nurse is not as much as it would have been without these
:12:08. > :12:13.psychological issues. Taking these facts into account, that he has got
:12:14. > :12:20.these problems, the judge actually adjourned because he started crying,
:12:21. > :12:25.not every person accused of murder sits crying in court, you need to
:12:26. > :12:32.attach weight to that. Let's get to the culpable homicide matter. If you
:12:33. > :12:42.look at that, the sentence could be anything from a suspended sentence
:12:43. > :12:49.to a long-term sentence, such as 18 years. But because of all the
:12:50. > :12:56.mitigating circumstances, I suspect that she would impose a sentence of
:12:57. > :13:00.about seven years effectively. Would that be seven years to serve, or
:13:01. > :13:10.eligible for parole? Eligible for parole. And one third, you get off
:13:11. > :13:18.that automatically. About five years. Once you have served some
:13:19. > :13:29.part of it, he will be eligible for that. As far as the firearm
:13:30. > :13:39.conviction is concerned, he did in danger the life of people, so that
:13:40. > :13:47.must be accounted for. The court could impose a whole sentence or see
:13:48. > :13:53.in mitigating circumstances, I am not going to impose the maximum
:13:54. > :14:00.sentence. Then, of course, she can decide that the sentences would run
:14:01. > :14:07.concurrently. So he would not go double the time to jail. And being
:14:08. > :14:15.first offender, that is more than likely that that is what she would
:14:16. > :14:20.do. Anything in the back of her mind, she must feel a lot of
:14:21. > :14:26.sympathy for him. I'm not saying she should have been influenced by that,
:14:27. > :14:31.she has two exercise depression, but she is a human being. Fascinating to
:14:32. > :14:37.get your thoughts. Thank you very much. There are so many murders each
:14:38. > :14:41.year, so many murder cases and killings in South Africa, why has
:14:42. > :14:47.this murder trial attracted so much attention? Why has been this out of
:14:48. > :14:54.focus by so many broadcasters from all around the world? Let's just
:14:55. > :15:03.remind ourselves about the level of prestige and fame that Oscar
:15:04. > :15:09.Pistorius had before the events in February 2014 when he killed Reeva
:15:10. > :15:14.Steenkamp, hot and inspiration and stripper star he was for many.
:15:15. > :15:25.Oscar Pistorius was a man who changed the opinions of millions.
:15:26. > :15:30.They may call me the Blade Runner but I just Oscar. And I was born
:15:31. > :15:35.without bones in the bottom part my legs, my parents made a difficult
:15:36. > :15:40.decision to amputate them. Few people know him as well as this
:15:41. > :15:48.Olympian and long-term training partner. I had a lot of incidents
:15:49. > :15:55.when he hugged me. I cannot count them all. He is a gentle man. He is
:15:56. > :16:01.someone who will stick to his words. He was chasing a dream, a big dream.
:16:02. > :16:09.That dream began at school when he was given carbon fibre prospect and
:16:10. > :16:13.began to run. It was here in March 2004 when a teenage Oscar Pistorius
:16:14. > :16:19.after just two months of training with blades, showed how good he was.
:16:20. > :16:29.He ran the 100 metres in just over 11 seconds, a new world record.
:16:30. > :16:35.50-50 and rotate. Confidence was no problem as he told the BBC in 2007.
:16:36. > :16:39.I put in more hours, I eat better, I train better and I train better than
:16:40. > :16:46.the other guys. He is flying away from all of them. 21 seconds. My
:16:47. > :16:51.goodness. Paralympic gold medals followed and by now he had become a
:16:52. > :17:00.brand. They told me I would never walk. A man with no legs cannot run.
:17:01. > :17:04.Anything else you want to tell me? At London, he became the first
:17:05. > :17:07.amputee to run at the Olympics but why now the stories were also
:17:08. > :17:13.emerging of another side to his character. They did O'Sullivan has
:17:14. > :17:19.known him since he was a boy. I knew a roommate of his and he told me he
:17:20. > :17:22.had to move out of the room because Oscar Pistorius had gone hysterical
:17:23. > :17:27.on the phone and he was shouting and screaming. He was talking to a
:17:28. > :17:31.girlfriend and a man who had taken this girl out on an overseas trip. I
:17:32. > :17:39.have the story confirmed by other athletes who said it was terrible to
:17:40. > :17:44.which is, this incredible meltdown. The athlete later insisted he had
:17:45. > :17:50.left Oscar Pistorius is room on medical grounds, but the rumour
:17:51. > :17:54.persisted. He seemed to present a different persona. We heard about
:17:55. > :17:57.the fast cars, how he was an insomniac and he used to go out on
:17:58. > :18:01.the shooting range in the middle of the night. There were more and more
:18:02. > :18:07.of these incidents which sold him to be aggressive and volatile. There
:18:08. > :18:11.was controversy on the track. After losing in the 200 metres final in
:18:12. > :18:16.London to a resilient, he suggested that his rival had cheated.
:18:17. > :18:20.TRANSLATION: There was nothing wrong with my blades. It was difficult for
:18:21. > :18:24.me to stand beside him after all of that. He saw me at the Olympic
:18:25. > :18:30.Village and refused to talk to me. But the man who bit come -- has
:18:31. > :18:32.become the new poster boy of her Olympian sport said Oscar Pistorius
:18:33. > :18:39.was capable of surprising generosity. In the final in London
:18:40. > :18:44.he said just before, do you mind if I pray for you? He was a nice
:18:45. > :18:53.person. It was great to be there. It is a crazy situation. He made the
:18:54. > :18:59.breakthrough in Paralympic sport. At the University for his training was
:19:00. > :19:07.based, a new generation of hopefuls remain loyal. He is still an
:19:08. > :19:15.inspiration for me. I lost my leg, I saw him doing so well. He was a role
:19:16. > :19:22.model of mine. As an as like superhuman -- athletes superhuman,
:19:23. > :19:27.as a man, flawed. He will now be identified with events away from the
:19:28. > :19:34.track. The ultimate fall from grace of sport is complete.
:19:35. > :19:38.We thought that I now we would be seeing court receding is resuming
:19:39. > :19:49.again. We are still waiting. Judge Tarah Jones called a lunch
:19:50. > :19:55.adjournment. -- the judge. We will go back inside to bring you all the
:19:56. > :19:59.latest developments. At the moment, they are discussing the issue of
:20:00. > :20:09.Dale or a renewal of bail conditions. -- of bail. It centres
:20:10. > :20:12.on whether he will be allowed to continue living at his uncle's
:20:13. > :20:18.residence of whether he will have to spend the time before his sentence
:20:19. > :20:24.in custody. It could be that he walks out of court this afternoon
:20:25. > :20:28.free on bail. But we do not know. The judge is considering the options
:20:29. > :20:34.at the moment and she has heard arguments from and the state. The
:20:35. > :20:36.charge that he has been here for six months spacing was that of
:20:37. > :20:44.premeditated murder of Reeva Steenkamp. -- facing. Let your mind
:20:45. > :20:51.is a swap the prosecution failed to prove. Here are the key moments. --
:20:52. > :20:58.let's remind you what the prosecution. I heard a female
:20:59. > :21:03.screaming fearfully. She was very very scared of something. Something
:21:04. > :21:07.that was threatening her life moments before those shots went.
:21:08. > :21:12.That made me know her life was threatened severely in the house.
:21:13. > :21:19.That is why she shouted. I have been upset by you for two days now. I am
:21:20. > :21:22.so upset. I cant get that day back. I am scared of you sometimes and how
:21:23. > :21:33.you snapper needs. How you will react to me. -- how you snapped at
:21:34. > :21:37.me. You should not get into trouble. This should not get into the media.
:21:38. > :21:42.You were very concerned about it getting into the media. I was
:21:43. > :21:52.concerned about both of our futures, my lady. It exploded. Am I correct?
:21:53. > :21:58.That is correct. You know that the same happened to the head of the
:21:59. > :22:05.team can? Take a look. I will take responsibility but I will not look
:22:06. > :22:11.at the picture which wants me. I do not have to look at a picture. I was
:22:12. > :22:17.there! I turned around. I said to her to get down and phone the
:22:18. > :22:21.police. I made my way as quickly as I could to the wall of the bedroom.
:22:22. > :22:26.Just before the entrance to the closet. I do not understand why you
:22:27. > :22:32.would not make sure that she was fine before you stormed off. I was
:22:33. > :22:37.in a panic. I thought was to get between the perceived danger and
:22:38. > :22:44.Reeva Steenkamp as quickly as I could. Why did you fire? I heard a
:22:45. > :22:49.noise coming from inside the toilet. I interpreted it as someone coming
:22:50. > :22:53.out to attack me, my lady. You just started shooting, accidentally your
:22:54. > :22:59.fingers pulled the trigger? I started shooting at that point, my
:23:00. > :23:05.lady. At the intruder. At the door. In your mind at the intruders. What
:23:06. > :23:09.I perceived as an intruder. It was not accidental. I am getting
:23:10. > :23:15.confused with this accidentally and not accidentally. Your version is so
:23:16. > :23:24.improbable that nobody would ever think it is reasonably and possibly
:23:25. > :23:27.true. It is so improbable. There we are. The key moments of the
:23:28. > :23:32.prosecution case. The lead counsel for the state Gerrie Nel becoming
:23:33. > :23:36.one of the names to become a household name throughout the course
:23:37. > :23:39.of this trial. Barry Roux, the lead counsel for the defence was the
:23:40. > :23:46.other one and we saw him robustly trying to defend Oscar Pistorius. He
:23:47. > :23:50.tried to make it clear to the judge that he thought Oscar Pistorius was
:23:51. > :23:54.a man that had been significantly affect by his disability and was a
:23:55. > :23:59.vulnerable person. Let's show you some of the highlights of the
:24:00. > :24:05.defence case. They tried to counter the accusation of premeditated
:24:06. > :24:09.murder. My lady, whether she was able to make any noise depends on
:24:10. > :24:14.two factors, firstly the sequence of shots. If I am wrong and the shot to
:24:15. > :24:17.the head was the first one, then obviously she could not have made
:24:18. > :24:22.any sound at all. If the shots were fired rapidly, these could have
:24:23. > :24:26.easily been discharged within the space of four seconds. I think it
:24:27. > :24:32.highly unlikely that she would have made or have been able to call out.
:24:33. > :24:38.I would like to apologise. There is not a moment and has not been a
:24:39. > :24:44.moment since this tragedy happened that I have not thought about her
:24:45. > :24:47.family. I wake up every morning and they are at the first people I think
:24:48. > :24:52.God and I pray for. I cant imagine the pain and sorrow and emptiness
:24:53. > :24:59.that I have caused you and your family. I was simply trying to
:25:00. > :25:04.protect river. When she went to bed that night she felt loved. When you
:25:05. > :25:12.were standing with your firearm pointing to the toilet door what
:25:13. > :25:23.emotions did you experience? I was terrified. I feared for my life. I
:25:24. > :25:33.was scared. I was thinking about what could happen to me and to
:25:34. > :25:46.Reeva. I was extremely fearful. I was overcome with a sense of terror
:25:47. > :25:50.and vulnerability. There is a card and a message. Roses are red,
:25:51. > :26:00.violets are blue and I love you. She signed it with her name and a smiley
:26:01. > :26:05.face and kisses. We have seen the court rise because
:26:06. > :26:06.the judge has come back in. We will take you live to proceedings at the
:26:07. > :26:08.High Court