South African prosecutor seeks psychiatric test for Oscar Pistorius

PRETORIA, South Africa — A South African prosecutor said he will ask the Pretoria high court on Tuesday to order a full psychiatric evaluation of double amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius after a psychiatrist testified she had diagnosed him with a mental disorder.

Pistorius is on trial for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after firing four shots through a bathroom door in his home in the early hours of Valentine’s Day last year. He says he thought she was an intruder and never intended to pull the trigger. She was hit three times.