Oscar Pistorius seeks filing papers to South Africa’s Constitutional Court to appeal against his 13-year jail term for the shooting his girlfriend

- Oscar Pistorius seeks filing papers to South Africa’s Constitutional Court to appeal against his 13-year jail term for the shooting his girlfriend

Do you remember the story of ex Paralympic athlete,  Oscar Pistorius who reportedly murdered his girlfriend?

Well, latest information revealed the Paralympic athlete has result to filing of papers to a South Africa’s Constitutional Court to appeal against his 13-year jail term for shooting his girlfriend dead.

This latest development was made known by the victim's family lawyer Today.

Earlier last month, a South African court had increased Pistorius’s sentence for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, to 13 years in what could be termed as the latest stage of a long court battle since his trial in 2014.

Back in 2013, in the early hours of Valentine's Day, Pistorius had reportedly shot dead Steenkamp  when he fired four times through the door of his bedroom toilet, he was to later say that he thought she was an intruder.

Tania Koen, a lawyer for the Steenkamp family said;  “We respect the law.''

He further said it was the athlete's right to appeal his sentence.

In the early days of the case, Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide which is similar to manslaughter but his conviction aggravated to murder on appeal.

Despite Pistorius becoming the first double-amputee to race at the Olympics in the London 2012 games, he tried to take the murder conviction to the Constitutional Court, South Africa’s highest tribunal, but the tribunal said it would hear nothing on the matter.