A judge in South African has granted bail to Oscar Pistorius, pending sentencing for his murder conviction.
The country’s Supreme Court of Appeal convicted him last Thursday of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, overturning a lower court’s conviction of the lesser crime of manslaughter.
The appeals court then said the double-amputee Olympian should be sentenced by the lower court.
Judge Aubrey Ledwaba, at North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, granted Pistorius bail of 692 US dollars (£460) and extended his house arrest until his sentencing hearing, which he set for April 18 2016.
The judge said Pistorius will be placed under electronic monitoring and may only leave his uncle’s home between 7am and 12pm.
Pistorius’s chief defence lawyer, Barry Roux, said his client plans to appeal against his conviction to the Constitutional Court.
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