Appeal court 'ignored Oscar Pistorius disability' in murder conviction

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.

In a request to South Africa’s Constitutional Court to hear an appeal over the murder conviction, lawyer Andrew Fawcett said Pistorius was on his stumps, which made him anxious, when he shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.