Oscar Pistorius is a “broken” man who should not be jailed for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a psychologist told a court in South Africa, while a prosecutor argued that he has shown no remorse.

The family of Oscar Pistorius have condemned allegations made in a book that new evidence exists to show that he beat girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp with a cricket bat before fatally shooting her at his home in 2013.

South Africa’s highest court has dismissed Oscar Pistorius’ appeal of his murder conviction, a lawyer said, signalling that the former track star’s long legal battle since he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp may be drawing to a close.

Oscar Pistorius' lawyer says the South African Supreme Court of Appeal ignored the double-amputee’s vulnerability when it overturned a manslaughter conviction, declaring him guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend.

Oscar Pistorius is seeking to appeal his murder conviction for the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Oscar Pistorius has returned to court in South Africa, where he is expected to apply for bail following his conviction for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

A day after South Africa’s top appeals court convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, prosecutors have pushed for the Olympian runner to appear in court as soon as possible so that a date can be set for his sentencing.

The mother of Reeva Steenkamp says justice has been done after Oscar Pistorius was convicted of her daughter's murder.

Reeva Steenkamp's family have welcomed a decision to upscale Oscar Pistorius' manslaughter conviction to murder.

A South African appeals court will rule this week on whether to overturn a manslaughter conviction against Oscar Pistorius and find him guilty of murder for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Reeva Steenkamp’s mother has delivered the speech her daughter had planned to give at a South African school on the day she was killed by Oscar Pistorius.

The family of Reeva Steenkamp, who was killed by Oscar Pistorius, said they were indifferent to his release in view of their loss but were open to the idea of meeting with South Africa’s double-amputee ‘Blade Runner’ in the future.

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, jailed for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been released from prison tonight and put under house arrest, a South African official said.

A second hearing to decide whether Oscar Pistorius should be released early from prison has been postponed for two weeks.

Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp deliberately, her parents said, ahead of an appeal hearing in which prosecutors are seeking to overturn a South African court ruling that the athlete was not guilty of murder.

South Africa’s parole review board has up to four months to conclude its decision on when Oscar Pistorius can be released from prison, a Justice Ministry spokesman said yesterday.

The release of Oscar Pistorius from prison was put on hold yesterday by South Africa’s Department of Justice, which said his case must be reviewed again by a parole board, because he was approved to be moved to house arrest too early.

Prosecutors pushing for a murder conviction against Oscar Pistorius have filed papers at South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal.

Oscar Pistorius will be released from jail next week after serving 10 months of his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The mother of the South African woman killed by Oscar Pistorius has said she has no interest in an upcoming appeal.

South African prosecutors will appeal against the verdict and sentencing of Oscar Pistorius, who was handed a five-year prison term after being convicted of culpable homicide for shooting dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The prosecutor cross-examining Oscar Pistorius in his murder trial tried to shred his version of events on the night he shot and killed his girlfriend, saying they do not add up and go against how people would react in the situation the double-amputee Olympian has described.

The prosecutor at Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial has challenged the athlete’s statements that he was worried about crime before he shot his girlfriend through a closed toilet door in his home.

Oscar Pistorius told his murder trial today that girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp died in his arms after he shot her in his home.

Oscar Pistorius is expected to take the stand, as his trial resumes this week in a defence relying on forensic experts and South Africa’s notoriously high crime rate to explain how and why he shot dead his girlfriend.

Oscar Pistorius’ girlfriend was standing up in a toilet cubicle when she was hit in the right hip by the first of four bullets fired by the double-amputee athlete, a police ballistics expert said.

A police photographer has admitted moving objects at Oscar Pistorius' house to take pictures of the aftermath of Reeva Steenkamp's death.

A seething Oscar Pistorius fired his pistol out of a car’s open sun-roof after an argument with a police officer, ex-girlfriend Samantha Taylor told a court, the fifth day of his trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp.

As his girlfriend lay dying, a weeping, praying Oscar Pistorius knelt at her side and struggled in vain to help her breathe by holding two fingers in her clenched mouth, a witness told a South African court.

Defence lawyers in Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial have sought to undermine the evidence of a couple who say they heard screams and gunfire the night the Olympic athlete fatally shot his girlfriend.

Oscar Pistorius has formally denied the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, pleading not guilty at the start of his trial today.

The mother of the woman shot dead by Oscar Pistorius arrived at court in Pretoria today to watch the opening his murder trial, saying she wants to look him in the eyes.

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is seen kissing and flirting with his model girlfriend just days before he shot her dead, in security footage broadcast on Saturday ahead of his murder trial.

Oscar Pistorius prosecutors shave said they have secured a meeting with officials from Apple to access potential evidence on the athlete’s iPhone.