Oscar Pistorius has been treated in hospital for minor injuries to his wrist and returned to jail in South Africa, the Department of Correctional Services says.
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Jailed South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius received treatment in a hospital, for, as one report said, injuries to his wrists.
He said that Pistorius had hurt himself falling out of bed.
The Paralympic gold medallist is now serving a six-year sentence for the Valentine’s Day murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
Legal experts later slammed his six-year jail sentence – far below the recommended 15-year jail term – as “an insult to the women of South Africa”.
Pistorius returned to the Supreme Court to face an appeal shortly after his release from prison previous year.
Pistorius faced trial after Steenkamp’s death in the early hours of February 14, 2013, at his Pretoria home.
Pistorius denied he had tried to kill himself, the spokesman said. She was hit in the head, hip and arm.
He stated Pistorius was taken back to his Pretoria prison cell on Saturday and that an investigation was underway. Nxumalo would not disclose the nature of his injuries.
When asked about the report of cut wrists, Nxumalo said he couldn’t “discuss details on a particular offender’s personal conditions in the public domain”.
A champion Paralympian athlete, with six gold medals to his name, he became the first double-amputee athlete to compete against able-bodied runners in the Olympics in 2012.
He also said Pistorius was under the guard of 10 warders when in the hospital.
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During the interrogation, judges revealed that Pistorius was not in his normal mental state and had already been suffering from severe mental problems since her murder.
