Pistorius Conviction – FULL TEXT Of The Supreme Court Of Appeal's Judgement

He wasted TWO lives: Oscar Pistorius was not in court for this hearing (Image source: BBC Africa Live)

The full text of this morning's judgement, which converted Oscar Pistorius' conviction from manslaughter to murder has now been made available online. It's quite long and technical, but here's a snippet from close to the end, explaining one of the legal arguments for the decision taken by the panel of judges in the appeal court:

"In the result, on count 1 in the indictment the accused ought to have been found guilty of murder on the basis that he had fired the fatal shots with criminal intent in the form of dolus eventualis.

GUILTY OF MURDER!!! South African Appeals Court Convicts Pistorius Of Murder

Oscar Pistorius

A South African appeals court on Thursday convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court's conviction of the double-amputee Olympian on the lesser charge of manslaughter for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death in 2013. Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered the ruling by the five-judge appeals court in Bloemfontein and directed the trial court, the North Gauteng High Court, to impose sentence.

"The accused ought to have been found guilty of murder," Leach said to the courtroom, in which Steenkamp's mother sat.