A South African judge has ruled that prosecutors can appeal against the “culpable homicide” conviction of Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius.
The double amputee was jailed for five years in October for shooting dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home last year.
Judge Thokozile Masipa said prosecutors could not challenge the length of the sentence given to Pistorius.
Pistorius’s lawyers had opposed the appeal request.
Prosecutors are seeking a murder conviction and the case will now go before South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal.
They have argued that Judge Thokozile Masipa misinterpreted the law when she ruled that Pistorius did not intentionally shoot Ms Steenkamp.
Judge Masipa announced the ruling in a Pretoria court on Wednesday.
“I cannot say… that the prospect of success at the Supreme Court of Appeal is remote,” she said.
