Summary
More than 100,000 people had signed a petition on Tuesday against an "offensive" advert by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power offering to refund losing bets made on a guilty verdict in the Oscar Pistorius trial if he walks free.
No stranger to publicity stunts, Paddy Power timed the ad to coincide with Sunday's Academy Awards and the start of Pistorius' murder trial in Pretoria on Monday.
By midday Tuesday, 105,000 people had signed an online petition demanding the bookmaker take no further bets on the trial.
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