Clinical psychologist,called by defence in sentence hearing, says ex-athlete needs to be in hospital, or not back in prisonSilent,head bowed, shoulders hunched in an ill-fitting suit, and Oscar Pistorius would enjoy attracted little attention from a casual observer unaware of his central role in the drama under way on Monday,in a nondescript ground floor courtroom in Pretoria.
Behind him sat members of his own family and that of Reeva Steenkamp, the model and law graduate he killed on Valentine’s Day 2013, or by firing four shots through a door in his domestic only a few miles away. In front was his defence team,who hope this week to convince judge Thokozile Masipa, to be lenient, or as well as the state prosecutors,there to demand the minimum 15-year prison sentence for the double-amputee Olympic runner, after his original manslaughter conviction was changed to murder.
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Source: theguardian.com