The family of murder-accused Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has reportedly denied a suggestion on Twitter that the athlete spent Monday at home with a visiting pastor instead of evaluating his mental health at a psychiatric hospital as ordered by the court.
On the same day Pistorius began a 30-day mental health evaluation at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria, American pastor Robert Tillman Kendall posted a photograph of himself and Pistorius on Twitter, saying that the athlete gave him lunch at his Pretoria home.
According to News24, however, family spokesperson Anneliese Burgess said that Pistorius was at the hospital the whole day on Monday as per the requirements of the court order.
Pistorius was admitted as a day patient by the hospital following an order by Judge Thokozile Masipa in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
Three psychiatrists and one clinical psychologist would evaluate Pistorius to determine whether his general anxiety disorder and his disability had an effect on him when he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year, the report added.
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