South African prosecutors will appeal the verdict and sentencing of Oscar Pistorius, who was handed a five-year prison term after being convicted of culpable homicide, the country’s National Prosecuting Authority said.

Oscar Pistorius could still face a murder conviction and 15 years in prison for killing his girlfriend as prosecutors said yesterday they had consulted a South African criminal law expert over an appeal.

Before Oscar Pistorius was strip-searched and issued with an orange jumpsuit to start serving a five-year prison sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, he appeared to grasp his uncle’s hand.

South African prosecutors pressing a murder charge against Oscar Pistorius secured a meeting with Apple officials in the US over accessing potentially crucial evidence on the double-amputee athlete’s locked iPhone, they said.

Oscar Pistorius was served with new indictment papers yesterday containing two extra charges believed to allege that he recklessly shot his gun out the open sunroof of a car last year and fired someone else’s handgun at a restaurant weeks before he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.