The ex-cop accused of shooting and killing a police officer and two patients at Cape Town's New Somerset Hospital was referred to Valkenberg Hospital on Wednesday for psychiatric evaluation to check whether he understands proceedings. | itchybyte
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Jean-Paul Malgas from Vredendal is accused of disarming Sea Point policeman Constable Donay Phillips, who had escorted him to the hospital for treatment on 7 May last year. Nursing sister Diane Seale bravely calmed Malgas with a hug and defused the situation long enough for him to be sedated. The judge said that from his reading of the evidence so far, Malgas walked into a police station with a knife to report his daughter missing.
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