Intro:

Prosecutor recommends Oscar Pistorius receive a minimum 10-year jail sentence on Friday, on the fifth day of sentencing during day 48 of the murder trial in Pretoria.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Gerrie Nel, prosecutor: ++PART OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAYS OF THE COURT++

"There were four shots fired through a locked toilet door with a powerful hand gun, three of those hit the deceased. My lady we have to, the court has in the judgement, but its now more important. It's not a accused that had a gun with normal ammunition that every other person would have. It was devastatingly damaging black talon ammunition."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Gerrie Nel, prosecutor: ++PART OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAYS OF THE COURT++

"My lady the offer is nothing, but an attempt to influence sentence. We say in paragraph eleven my lady, 'the principle of a just sentence and the accused paying his debt to society can not be equated with the cheap offer to pay for the life of the deceased by means of a car payment.' My lady, I know why it's said and I know what the reality is, but I cannot but think, I sold a car for 375 000 rand, take this money because I did that to your daughter. My lady a man with enough means to sell a car to pay for the life a daughter my lady. That offer for the death of a loved daughter cannot be positive my lady. And the deceased's mother referred to it as blood money. She did not want it."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Gerrie Nel, prosecutor: ++PART OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAYS OF THE COURT++

"My lady, my respectful submission is that the minimum, and my lady, I've been in courts too long to go to 20 and hope the court makes it a 10, I'm not doing it. The minimum term that society will be happy with, will be a 10 years in prison sentence."