Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced in a South African court today for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year.
The Olympic and Paralympic athlete is due to appear at the court in Pretoria, where Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to pass sentence on the 27-year-old.
Pistorius could be jailed, handed a suspended sentence, given correctional supervision or fined after he was found guilty of culpable homicide last month.
The seven-month trial of the sprinter, known as the "Blade Runner", has been closely watched by many South Africans and others around the world.
On the eve of the sentencing, Pistorius' family spoke of the love they had for Ms Steenkamp, 29, who died when the athlete fired four 9mm rounds through a bathroom door at his home.
Speaking to South African television station eNCA, Pistorius' sister Aimee said her family "could never understand" what Ms Steenkamp's parents are going through.
"It's an impossible situation and we could never understand, but it's important for us that they know she was very much cared for and loved and accepted as part of our family in the short time she was with us," she said.
"If you knew Reeva you didn't need to know her for very long for her to just creep into your heart.
"She had a wonderful charisma and zest for life that she just exuded and it was easy to fall in love with her."
Last month, Judge Masipa ruled Pistorius did not intend to kill his girlfriend when he fired through the bathroom door on Valentine's Day 2013.
Pistorius' legal team argued during the marathon trial that he mistook Ms Steenkamp for an intruder and believed they were in danger.
At Pistorius' sentencing hearing last week, his lawyer Barry Roux said the athlete had "lost everything" after Ms Steenkamp's death, and argued he should not go to prison.
Instead, Mr Roux told the court, Pistorius should be put under house arrest and carry out community service.
But state prosecutor Gerrie Nel has argued that only 10 years imprisonment would satisfy the South African public.
He said the public would lose its faith in the country's justice system if Pistorius avoids jail.
Ms Steenkamp's cousin, Kim Martin, previously told the court Pistorius needs to "pay for what he'd done" and warned a lenient sentence would send the wrong message to society.
She said: "My family is not seeking revenge, but to shoot someone behind a door who's unarmed and harmless needs sufficient punishment."
"He needs to pay for what he's done to my aunt and uncle, my whole family and his family. Everyone has suffered here."
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Gallery: Pistorius: Death, Despair And Drama
Hooded and head down, the Paralympic and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius leaves a police station in Pretoria hours after he shot dead his model girlfriend in the bathroom of his home.
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Before Valentine's Day 2013, this is how the couple were known... handsome, glamorous and seemingly happy
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A day after shooting Reeva, he was taken to court for a lengthy bail hearing during which he denied murdering his girlfriend. He was eventually granted conditional bail
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Reeva's Valentine's card to Oscar was later shown in court. She had left it out for him on the night of her death, along with some pictures of the couple and one of her she'd had taken especially as a gift
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Five days after her death, Reeva's funeral was held in her home town of Port Elizabeth
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Reeva's family and friends comforted each other after her coffin was carried into a crematorium. After the ceremony, her brother Adam said: "There's a space missing inside all the people that she knew that can't be filled again. We will miss her."
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Judge Thokozile Masipa presided over the trial. It should have run for three weeks but lasted at least five months
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Reeva's mother June Steenkamp was in court throughout proceedings, sat just feet away from the man who killed her daughter and in the same row as members of his family. Within weeks of Reeva's killing, Mrs Steenkamp said: "I don't hate Oscar. I've forgiven him. I have to, that's my religion. But I am determined to face him and reclaim my daughter."
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Gerrie Nel, a seasoned prosecutor, is known in South African legal circles as "the pitbull". He led the prosecution against Pistorius, claiming the defence was inconsistent
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The prosecution tried to prove the couple had problems - that Pistorius was an angry and controlling boyfriend. This email was among the evidence they used to make their point, along with a series of texts. The defence said it simply showed they were a normal couple, with normal ups and downs in their relationship
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Barry Roux defended Pistorius. He made his presence felt at the very start of proceedings by totally dismissing a senior police officer's case, leaving the man offering an embarrassing admission that his case was weak. "I don't have any facts," said Hilton Botha. Mr Roux has since said his performance was "nothing special".
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Sky News uncovered this CCTV image of the couple just a few days before the shooting. They were in a shop in Pretoria, kissing and laughing
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The CCTV is among the final images taken of Reeva
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The world gasped at pictures of the shooting scene obtained by Sky's Alex Crawford
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At one point in the trial, as lawyers flicked through a series of pictures on a large screen in court, they accidentally showed a picture of Reeva's body without warning. Friends of Reeva ran from the courtroom in tears at the violent image
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On another occasion, the prosecution taunted Pistorius, telling him to look at the image and take responsibility. Pistorius sobbed back: "As I picked Reeva up, my fingers touched her head. I don't have to look at a picture. I remember. I was there."
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Much of the case centered on whether Pistorius was wearing his prosthetic legs at the time of the shooting. Did the bullet holes in the bathroom door prove that he was wearing them, and therefore able to move faster and with more ease? Or was he on his stumps, at a lower height and possibly feeling more threatened?
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Sitting almost within touching distance throughout the trial, Reeva's mother and Pistorius' sister Aimee have been seen speaking to each other at times
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The defendant wretched and vomited more than once. At one point, Pistorius collapsed in the dock and his psychologist was seen trying to calm him by stroking the defendant's face
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The trial was adjourned for a psychiatric evaluation of Pistorius. Around this time the defendant had a night out and got involved in an altercation, making headlines again
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Following the row, Pistorius tweeted some cryptic messages. This was one
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Lawyers went step-by-step through how Pistorius would have got out of bed in the night, walked or run down the corridor shouting at whoever was locked in the toilet, shot through the door and then, on realising it was Reeva inside, bashed down the door using a cricket bat
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After the shooting, the door was removed from Pistorius' house and was stored in a police HQ office instead of a contamination-free zone
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Footage emerged of Pistorius recreating the fateful night in a private attempt to make his case clear. Australia's Channel 7 got hold of the video, which described events in graphic detail, and released it while the trial was ongoing
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Friends and family of Reeva have given various interviews to the media, talking about how the model with a law degree was also someone who cared deeply about others and wanted to help people. "She was more than just a pretty face," one said
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The world's focus once again closed in on the court in Pretoria when the time came for Judge Masipa to give her verdict
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The runner's brother made it to court for the verdicts, coming out of hospital in a wheelchair. He is recovering from a head-on car crash that happened on August 1
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As the judge read her findings to the court on the first day of her verdict delivery, Pistorius sat in the dock and sobbed, gulping back air as he struggled not to cry out loud
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Reeva's father Barry Steenkamp did not attend the first few weeks of the trial, but he sat through the end and closely watched the man who killed his daughter as the verdict was read out
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He was found not guilty of premeditated murder on Thursday, September 11, 2014. And the weight of the case took so long for the judge to get through that it was not until the next morning that he was told to stand to hear the verdict on culpable homicide. He stood silently, breathing deeply...
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At the end of it all, Oscar Pistorius, world-famous athlete, was found guilty of culpable homicide. A similar charge to manslaughter, it means he did shoot at someone but the judge said he may not have known it was Reeva behind the toilet door. Pistorius has yet to be sentenced for his crime
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