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Oscar Pistorius should get community service, says prison official

A South African prison official on Monday recommended that star Paralympian Oscar Pistorius clean a Pretoria museum for 16 hours a month as punishment for shooting dead his lover Reeva Steenkamp.

The testimony came at the start of a sentencing hearing after Pistorius was found guilty last month of negligently killing his girlfriend in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013.

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