Oscar Pistorius Murder Case Trial: [UPDATE] ‘Blade Runner’s’ ‘Preferential Treatment’ Concerns Experts; Olympic Athlete’s Family Dismisses Pastor’s Twitter Claim

Oscar Pistorius' murder case trial took a different route Monday when the Olympian started his month-long evaluation at a state psychiatric facility, which some quarters believed was proof of "preferential treatment."

Oscar Pistorius was brought to the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa on a police van. Judge Thokozile Masipa asked the hospital to see if the double-amputee runner had a psychotic episode at the time he killed Reeva Steenkamp last year, said the National Post.

According to the prepared appointment, Oscar Pistorius must be brought to the facility by 9 a.m. and fetched by 4 p.m. each weekday.

However, not everybody is amused by the order considering there's a long waiting list for cases.

Jack Bloom, an opposition member of the provincial council, noted that most of the trials have been delayed for almost a year because of the backlog of patients receiving evaluation at the state mental facility, according to National Post.

"Everyone should be equal before the law, no matter how famous," Bloom said, as he demanded an investigation into the preferential treatment surrounding the Oscar Pistorius murder case trial.

Meanwhile, the "Blade Runner's family dismissed a pastor's Twitter claim that he had lunch with the suspected killer on Monday, the day he was supposed to see his psychiatric evaluators.

American pastor Robert Tillman Kendall posted on Twitter a photo of himself with the Olympian on Monday just after 3 p.m. The pastor also wrote the caption: "Oscar Pistorius gave me lunch in his home today in Pretoria, S Africa. Please, please do pray for him."

But the family spokesperson, Anneliese Burgess, said the pastor could have been mistaken on the timeline as Oscar Pistorius was at the psychiatric hospital the whole day on Monday and he couldn't possibly have had lunch with Robert Kendall, news24.com reported.

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