The National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed that Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has filed an application to have the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal’s decision to convict him of murder, overturned.
NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said the papers were filed with the Constitutional Court on Monday.
The Constitutional Court is the highest court in the country, and is the last resort for the Paralympian to stay out of jail for the 2013 killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius has been out on bail and living at his uncle’s Waterkloof mansion in Pretoria since late last year when the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal overturned his earlier conviction of culpable homicide.
The court found that the Pretoria High Court had not correctly applied the rule of dolus eventualis and convicted him of murder instead.
Pistorius shot and killed Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013 when he shot through a locked bathroom door, mistakenly believing she was an intruder.
