Oscar Pistorius has arrived at Weskoppies mental health hospital where he is to undergo psychiatric evaluation.

The Blade Runner was driven into the facility in a Chevrolet Sonic this 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.

He will be monitored by four psychiatrists as an outpatient for 30 days, meaning he will have to visit every weekday for the next six weeks.

There was a chance that he might have been admitted as an inpatient, but he will report there daily from 9am until 4pm.

The tests that will be carried out on him are taking place to find out whether he was criminally responsible on the night he shot dead Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 last year.

The decision by Judge Thokozile Masipa followed a request for a psychiatric evaluation by chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel.

The prosecutor said he had no option but to ask for it after an expert witness for the defence said Pistorius had an anxiety disorder that might have played a role when he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

The hospital was established in 1892 and was originally called the Pretoria Lunatic Asylum (Krankzinnigengesticht te Pretoria).

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health: "The hospital's medical director followed an enlightened approach to caring for the mentally ill, in line with the policies of psychiatric hospitals in contemporary Europe.

"However, his ideals of no restraint and minimal confinement of patients could not be maintained during the war years owing to insufficient accommodation and a lack of suitably trained attendants.

"It is concluded that the humane care of the institutionalised psychiatric patient was (and is) not guaranteed by enlightened policies, but depends on sufficient resources to put such policies into practice."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Uk Mirror