PRETORIA — During day one of sentencing proceedings, Oscar Pistorius’s psychologist revealed that the paralympian had admitted to intentionally shooting whomever would have been on the other side of his bathroom door.
Professor Jonathan Scholtz, a clinical psychologist from Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, was testifying as a defence witness.
During his lenghty testimony, Scholtz focused on Pistorius’s mental health issues.
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Under cross-examination, however, he told Advocate Gerrie Nel that Pistorius had admitted to having had an intent to shoot.
The athlete’s defence team is expected to call a second witness.
Pistorius is being tried for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp on 14 February 2013.
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