Pistorius did not suffer mental illness - report says
- 10 years ago
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STORY: Oscar Pistorius, the South African track star on trial for murdering his girlfriend, was not suffering from a mental condition at the time of the shooting, according to a psychiatric report read to the court on Monday (June 30).
Pistorius, an Olympic and Paralympic sprinter, has admitted to shooting dead his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, but maintains he mistook her for an intruder hiding in his toilet in an up market Pretoria suburb.
The trial, which began in March, took a month-long break to allow the 27-year-old to undergo a mental evaluation at Pretoria's Weskoppies hospital after a forensic psychologist brought by the defence testified that Pistorius had an anxiety disorder.
Judge Thokozile Masipa said it was important to find out whether or not the condition affected his criminal responsibility.
"At the time of the alleged offences, the accused did not suffer from a mental disorder or mental defect that a
STORY: Oscar Pistorius, the South African track star on trial for murdering his girlfriend, was not suffering from a mental condition at the time of the shooting, according to a psychiatric report read to the court on Monday (June 30).
Pistorius, an Olympic and Paralympic sprinter, has admitted to shooting dead his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, but maintains he mistook her for an intruder hiding in his toilet in an up market Pretoria suburb.
The trial, which began in March, took a month-long break to allow the 27-year-old to undergo a mental evaluation at Pretoria's Weskoppies hospital after a forensic psychologist brought by the defence testified that Pistorius had an anxiety disorder.
Judge Thokozile Masipa said it was important to find out whether or not the condition affected his criminal responsibility.
"At the time of the alleged offences, the accused did not suffer from a mental disorder or mental defect that a