Judge Masipa amends order on Oscar reports
An earlier order stopping the media from reporting on murder-accused Oscar Pistorius's psychology report was amended by Judge Thokozile Masipa on Monday.
FILE PICTURE: Star sprinter Oscar Pistorius is seen at the High Court in Pretoria on Monday, 30 June 2014 after spending 30 days under psychiatric observation to determine if he should be held criminally responsible for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Picture: Phill Magakoe/Independent Newspapers /Pool
“On Friday afternoon… I amended an earlier order that I gave on July 2,” she said in the High Court in Pretoria.
“This was after it came to my attention that the attorneys representing the media and the defence attorneys [had come to an agreement].”
It was decided that the media could go ahead and publish information from two reports.
Three psychiatrists and a clinical psychologist observed Pistorius for 30 days at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital following a court order. Pistorius was a day patient.
The Paralympian is charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 last year. He claims he shot her by accident through the locked door of his toilet in his Pretoria home, thinking she was an intruder about to emerge and attack him.
The State contends he killed her during an argument.
– Sapa
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