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Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius arrives at court in Pretoria on Monday as his murder trial resumes after psychiatric tests have been carried out.

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The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius resumed after a one month break on Monday, during which time mental health experts evaluated the athlete to determine if he has an anxiety disorder that could have influenced his actions on the night he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to receive the conclusions of a panel of one psychologist and three psychiatrists who were instructed to assess whether the double-amputee runner was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his act when he shot Steenkamp through a closed toilet door in his home on Valentine's Day last year.

According to legal analysts, the assessments of a panel at a state psychiatric hospital could determine whether Pistorius should be held criminally responsible and affect the judge's deliberations on a verdict or, in the event of a conviction, the severity of the sentence.