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Hearing finished, Oscar Pistorius to be sentenced July 6

Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on July 6, Judge Thokozile Masipa confirmed Wednesday.

The announcement was made on day three of the sentencing hearing in Pretoria for the Olympic and Paralympic sprinter, during which the double amputee removed his prosthetic legs to hobble around the courtroom at the request of his defense lawyer, Barry Roux, to show that Pistorius is a vulnerable man.

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Pistorius, who claimed he thought Steenkamp was an intruder when he shot her dead through a bathroom door at his home in 2013, was originally sentenced to five years in prison in October 2014 and subsequently released on house arrest 12 months later.