Image: Oscar Pistorius at the Pretoria high court. Photograph: Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images Pool/Getty Images
South African prosecutors on Wednesday won their bid to appeal the culpable homicide sentence handed down to Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius for killing his girlfriend and will now seek a murder conviction.
"I cannot say the prospect of success at the Supreme Court is remote," said Pretoria High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa in granting the appeal.
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