Oscar Pistorius was dramatically jailed today for killing his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The disgraced Paralympian was handed a five-year prison term after the judge ruled that a non-custodial sentence would send the 'wrong message to the community'.
The athlete was found guilty of culpable homicide, which is comparable to manslaughter, but acquitted him of murder after shooting Miss Steenkamp four tiems through a toilet cubicle door in his home.
Pistorius testified during his murder trial that he mistook Miss Steenkamp for a dangerous night-time intruder about to come out of the cubicle and attack him when he opened fire with his 9mm pistol.
Judge Masipa last month ruled that Pistorius did not intend to kill Miss Steenkamp, but he acted negligently and with excessive force in the Valentine's Day 2013 killing.
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