Pretoria – Paralympics South African murder-accused Oscar Pistorius on Monday arrived at a psychiatric hospital to begin up to 30-days of tests Monday, as ordered by a judge during his trial.
Tests will be conducted at the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, west of Pretoria.
Patients who usually frequent Weskoppies Psychiatric hospital are from poor backgrounds.
Pistorious who wanted to avoid media attention travelled to hospital in a sedan with tinted windows.
Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled that the Paralympian sprinter was to report to the hospital as an outpatient every work day from morning to 1400 GMT from May 26.
It is believed Pistorious suffers from a generalised anxiety disorder and according to the judge tests will prove “whether he was capable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his act or acting in accordance with appreciation of the wrongfulness of his act”.
Pistorious was in a turbulent relationship with 29 year old girlfriend Steenkamp who he “shot dead by accident thinking she was an intruder”., a 29-year-old model, at his Pretoria home after a row. He says she was killed by accident after he mistook her for an intruder.
If found guilty he could face life in prison.
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