Oscar Pistorius trial: verdict expected on Thursday

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is due to hear the verdict of his murder trial this week, bringing to a close a sensational and televised trial six months after it began.

The double-amputee athlete will learn his fate on Thursday 11 September, 19 months after the 27-year-old shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29.

The trial has spanned six and a half months, during which Pistorius has always maintained he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder and panicked, shooting through the bathroom door out of fear.

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