As social media reacts to the five year sentence handed to Pistorius this morning, #ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence and #OnlyFiveYears begin trending on Twitter.
Meanwhile, The Telegraph's Aislinn Laing has noted that Pistorius wasn't just grasping his uncle's hand as he was taken down to the cells, he was handing him his expensive designer watch.
Pistorius was seen to slip his watch from his wrist as the judge ordered him to stand, then hold it behind his back.
As he walked towards the stairs leading to the cells moments later, he grasped his uncle's hand and passed him the watch.
Pistorius's caution with his expensive timepiece is understandable - his trial heard that light-fingered police who swarmed through the athlete's house after Steenkamp's shooting pinched a 6,000GBP watch from a display case in his bedroom.
ome clarity now on Pistorius's sporting future. The athlete will not be allowed to run in the Paralympics for the whole of his five-year jail term, even if he is released early under house arrest, a spokesman for the organisers of the event said.
"He will not be able to compete for five years. For us he would have to serve the whole term even if he was released early," International Paralympic Committee spokesman Craig Spence told AFP.
A member of Pistorius's legal team, Roxanne Adams, said earlier that he could be transferred to house arrest after 10 months.
The next Paralympics are in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 but the organisers said Pistorius could only consider competing if his sentence was reduced on appeal.
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