When the South African news service IOL contacted the prison for more information, officials would only confirm that Pistorius was first attended to at the Kgosi Mampuru II Prison where he is now serving a six-year jail term.
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“He had to be detained Saturday afternoon at the hospital after falling off his bed”, prison services spokesman Singabakho Nxumalo said.
He won six Paralympic gold medals and at London 2012 became the first athlete to compete in both the Paralympic and Olympic Games.
During Pistorius’ sentencing hearing in June, a psychologist testified for the defense that the athlete was a “broken” man whose mental state had deteriorated over the last two years, and that he should be hospitalized and not jailed.
A local newspaper said he apparently tried to cut his wrists in his cell ands was rushed to hospital around midday on Saturday.
“We have just seen Oscar and he is doing well”, Carl Pistorius said on Twitter Sunday.
‘He slipped in his cell and injured himself, nothing serious.
A spokesperson for the Pistorius family said they would not be responding to the media reports.
Pistorius also previously served one year in prison for manslaughter for shooting 29-year-old Steenkamp, a model and reality TV star.
Before Steenkamp’s killing, Pistorius was internationally renowned as a boundary-breaking sprinter.
But the high-profile legal proceedings also exposed a darker side of the star athlete: offering glimpses of a dangerously volatile man with a penchant for guns, attractive women and fast cars.
In July, Pistorius received a six-year prison sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after his initial conviction of culpable homicide was upgraded by South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal last December.
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The double amputee shot Steenkamp dead on Valentine’s Day 2013, claiming he mistook his partner for an intruder.
