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Disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius will face sentencing in June following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013, Reuters reports.
"The matter is postponed to June 13, 2016, and it will be heard until the 17th of June 2016," High Court Judge Aubrey Ledwaba said.
Pistorius, known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon fiber prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence.
The athlete was originally found guilty of “involuntary manslaughter,” as he claimed he thought he was shooting at a thief who had locked himself in Pistorius' bathroom and not at his girlfriend. However, that ruling was overturned.
The Supreme Court in December upgraded the 29-year-old Paralympian's sentence on appeal to murder from "culpable homicide" - South Africa's equivalent of manslaughter, for which he had received a five-year sentence.
In March, the Constitutional Court, the country’s top court, rejected Pistorius' right to appeal against his conviction for the murder.
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