Monday, May 26, 2014

South Africa's Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius has arrived Pretoria's Weskoppies hospital to start a month of psychiatric tests as an outpatient.
Pistorius was ordered to undergo the tests to find out whether he was criminally responsible when he shot dead his girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year.
Judge Thokozile Masipa told Pistorius he must report to the hospital, as an outpatient for up to 30 days.
The Blade Runner was driven into the facility in a Chevrolet Sonic on Monday morning and security around the hospital remains tight.
He will undergo tests to see if his Generalised Anxiety Disorder played any role in the shooting of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The evaluation would determine "whether the accused by reason of mental illness or mental defect was at the time of the commission of the offence criminally responsible for the offence he is charged and whether he was capable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his act".
The Olympic star could face a life sentence if he is found guilty of murdering Steenkamp. He denies killing Steenkamp in cold blood after an argument, as suggested by prosecutors, and insists he shot four times at the toilet door she was behind, in self defense against what he thought was an intruder

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