According to reports, correctional service authorities found blades in his prison cell.
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Pistorius denied speculation of a suicide attempt, Nxumalo said. City Press quoted a security guard as saying: “He had bad cuts on his wrists and the doctors kept wrapping bandages around them”.
Oscar Pistorius has been rushed to Pretoria’s Kalafong Hospital after sustaining injuries to his wrists in jail. They said he was then sent on to the Kalafong Hospital for further medical treatment.
He said the former track star had now been taken back to his Pretoria prison cell, and that an investigation was underway. Pistorius shot Ms Steenkamp four times through a locked bathroom door in his home on Valentine’s Day, 2013.
A prison spokesman said the injuries sustained to the South African were “minor” and that the blade runner had returned to prison after Saturday’s incident.
The double-amputee athlete, who was sentenced on July 6, could be released on parole after three years.
The Supreme Court of Appeal overturned her verdict in December, arguing that he knew his shots could kill someone.
Oscar Pistorius at the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa where he was sentenced to six years for the killing of his girlfriend Reeve Steenkamp.
“As a policy principle, we can not further discuss a particular offender’s personal condition in the public domain”, he said. While he has called the killing accidental – he claims he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder – and has maintained his innocence ever since, he was initially found guilty of manslaughter in 2014.
Pistorius won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Paralympic and continued his winning streak in 2008 and 2012 Paralympics held in Beijing and London, respectively.
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During the trial, Judge Masipa had told the court Pistorius suffered “severe mental health problems” since Steenkamp’s murder.
