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The Paralympic athlete was jailed for five years in October after he was convicted of killing
his girlfriend in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013. He was cleared of her murder, but found guilty of culpable homicide - or manslaughter.
However prosecutors said they planned to challenge the decision, and were this morning given
permission to appeal the culpable homicide verdict. They will now seek a murder conviction and, if successful, the Blade Runner faces 15 years in jail.
According to the South Africa Times, Pistorius was listening to the hearing in jail via a radio. The result is said to have sent him into a rage, a prisoner told the newspaper. The fellow inmate at Pretoria's Kgosi Mampuru II prison, where Pistorius is behind bars said:
"He got up and stomped. He went straight to the gym. He started lifting weights like it was going out of fashion. He is p***ed off. Who wouldn't be? He was definitely expecting to be out by August."Pistorius was sentenced to five years in jail for culpable homicide but had been expected to be released on house arrest in August next year. Legal experts say that is now doubtful.