Pistorius, moreover, did not stand up well in the face of “pit bull” prosecutor Gerrie Nel’s “withering” five-day cross-examination in which he repeatedly changed his story and gave inherently incredible answers. To read the press accounts, the cross-examination “destroyed” Pistorius and “demolished” his credibility.

But if Pistorius did not come out well in the encounter, Nel did not either. An American lawyer might seriously question whether Nel’s techniques would have ever passed muster in a U.S. court—or, for that matter, in any court bound to guarantee the fair trial to which Oscar Pistorius is entitled. After all, a prosecutor’s role is not to pander to a ghoulish public with an insatiable appetite for sex and violence; it is to present the government’s evidence.

The cardinal rule of cross-examination is that the examiner must not make statements or make speeches. This is reserved for summation. The cross-examiner must ask questions. They may be leading or suggestive questions, but they must be questions. And, the role of opposing counsel and of the judge is to protect the witness from an overly zealous prosecutor. Nel’s approach was decidedly abusive and bullying. “Your version is concocted and tailored to fit the state’s case,” he thundered. “You are a liar,” Nel accused. His relentless hammering questions and improper statements drove Pistorius to tears. In a criminal trial this should never have been allowed to happen.

Nel began his flamboyant cross with a statement: “You shot and killed her. Say it—‘I shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp.’” Almost any judge would have sustained objection to this. Cross-examination is to ask questions, not to make declarative statements to test the story told on direct examination. A proper question might have been, “Did you shoot and kill Reeva Steenkamp?” This was undisputed anyway. Nel continued with his pattern of hectoring the witness, making bald statements that were not evidence and otherwise grandstanding to the public. “You are arrogant,” he said to Pistorius. He lectured the witness that the location of two ventilator fans was very important “because it will show you are lying.”

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The order is that he will present himself as an outpatient from May 26 at 9am every day for nor more than 30 days.

He will go to Weskoppies Hospital, Pretoria.

He must be there from 9am until 4pm every day.