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Closing arguments in Pistorius trial


Closing arguments in the sentencing proceedings of Oscar Pistorius are set to be delivered in the Pretoria High Court on Friday.

This week the State called two witnesses, Reeva Steenkamp's cousin, Kim Martin, and the acting national commissioner of correctional services, Zach Modise.

The defence called four -- Pistorius's psychologist Lore Hartzenberg, his manager Petrus van Zyl, Correctional Services Department social worker Mashaba Joel Maringa and probation officer
and social worker Annette Vergeer.

On September 12, Judge Thokozile Masipa found Pistorius guilty of the culpable homicide in the death of Steenkamp, but not guilty of premeditated murder.

Pistorius had claimed he thought there was a burglar in his toilet when he fired four shots through the locked door in the early hours of February 14 last year, killing his then girlfriend.

Masipa also found Pistorius guilty of discharging a firearm in public, when he fired a shot from a friend's gun under the table of a Johannesburg restaurant in January last year.

He was found not guilty on two other firearms-related charges.