On Monday, Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has arrived at a psychiatric hospital to comply with a judge's order to undergo a series of tests to determine his mental health. Yahoo! Sports said that the double-amputee was ferried off in a car to the insides of the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, west of Pretoria.
It was noted that Pistorius was keen on making his arrival discreet, showing up in a sedan with heavily-tinted windows and ditched his usual grey SUV ride that he always arrives at the court with. There was no sign of friends or family of the athlete upon his arrival at the hospital.
Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled last week on prosecutor Gerrie Nel's request that the sprinter admit himself to a battery of tests. Masipa said about her ruling, "(Pistorius will be tested to see) whether he was capable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his act or acting in accordance with appreciation of the wrongfulness of his act".
The ruling came ahead of a testimony provided by a defense witness, who said that the 27 year-old Paralympian was suffering from generalized anxiety disorder way before he had shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to her death on Valentine's Day last year.
Yahoo! Sports said Pistorius, upon the judge's ruling, will be admitted as an outpatient every work day beginning morning to 1400 GMT starting May 26. The case was reportedly postponed last week until June 30, to make way for the athlete's testing of his mental health.
Pistorius' defense team had since tried to show that his violent reaction to a perceived intruder in his home was the reason to Steenkamp's untimely death. The athlete's paranoia allegedly started when he was a child. The state, on the other hand, alleges that Pistorius murdering his girlfriend was premeditated, which warrants a death sentence if he is to be found guilty.
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