Many weeks after his trial was put on hold so he can get psychiatric evaluation to determine if he was
mentally ill when he shot and killed his
girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in his home in February 2013, a report has
been released. A panel of mental health experts has
concluded that Oscar Pistorius was not suffering from mental illness
when he killed Reeva, the chief prosecutor at his murder trial said
today.
The mental experts, a psychologist and 3 psychiatrists all agreed that Oscar understood
the gravity of his act when he shot Reeva through a closed toilet
door. The request for evaluation came after his defence team brought a psychiatrist who testified that Oscar h
ad an anxiety disorder, because of his disability, that could have
contributed to the shooting. His trial resumed today after a 1-month break.
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