Prosecutors in Pistorius case win appeal

A South African court has struck down Oscar Pistorius’s bid to block prosecutors from appealing the culpable homicide verdict handed down against him, in favour of a murder conviction, for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The Olympic and Paralympic track star is serving a five-year prison sentence after being convicted in October of culpable homicide after a seven-month trial.

A murder conviction might see him jailed for at least 15 years.