The National Prosecuting Authority has issued an arrest warrant for Paralympian Oscar Pistorius.
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He was convicted of manslaughter previous year after shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but the conviction was changed to murder by an appeal judge this week.
The 29-year-old Olympian was found guilty of culpable homicide and reckless endangerment by a South African court last year after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013, when her shot four times through a locked toilet door. Prosecutors said he killed her after an argument.
Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder.
“No arrest warrant has been issued”, NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku told AFP, dismissing local media reports.
She must now give Pistorius a new sentence, likely to be in the new year.
But Judge Thokozile Masipa, who originally handed a culpable homicide sentence and who is responsible for updating the sentence, could give him more than 15 years.
Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal said that regardless of who Pistorius said he thought was behind the door, he should have known someone could be killed if he fired.
Pistorius remains with family under house arrest in Pretoria, with a date for the reconvening of the case yet to be announced.
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According to a Johannesburg based BBC reporter, Pumza Fihlani, the athlete will be headed back to prison as the country’s laws don’t allow anyone serving more than five years to do so under house arrest. The appeals court didn’t interfere with that finding.
