A court in South Africa has finalised the dates for the sentencing of former Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius for murder.
The disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.
South Africa's Supreme Court upgraded the 29-year-old's "culpable homicide" sentence - South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter - in December.
He originally received a five-year sentence.
In March the country's top court rejected his right to appeal against his murder conviction.
Upgrading his sentence to murder, judges said he should have known that death was inevitable after he fired through the toilet door four times, leaving Ms Steenkamp with "nowhere to hide".
They ruled that the original trial judge had made a "fundamentally flawed" judgement.
In his original trial the prosecution said he shot Ms Steenkamp after an argument.
But Pistorius maintained he fired out of fear for his life after believing an intruder was in his property.
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