Not Guilty??? Oscar Pistorious found NOT GUILTY of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp....Still waits to hear if he is guilty of manslaughter.

Oscar Pistorius has been sensationally cleared of all murder charges over the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

As the judge delivered her verdicts, the Paralympian sat sobbing in the dock with tears streaming down his cheeks.

Pistorius had been accused of deliberately shooting the 30-year-old model during a furious row at his Pretoria home on Valentine's Day last year.
But he had always maintained - often through wails of despair during his six-month trial - that he shot the law graduate in self-defence after mistaking her for an intruder.

In coming to her decision, judge Thokozile Masipa described the 27-year-old as a 'very poor' and 'evasive' witness.

But she said that did not mean the track star was necessarily guilty of murder and pre-meditated murder in a case she said was based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

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'The state has not proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of pre-meditated murder,' Masipa told the Pretoria High Court.

'There are just not enough facts to support such a finding.'

She then proceeded to absolve Pistorius of the lesser charge of murder without pre-planning.

'Clearly he did not subjectively foresee this as a possibility that he would kill the person behind the door - let alone the deceased - as he thought she was in the bedroom,' she told the packed courtroom.

Judge Thokozile Masipa has yet to decide on a lesser charge of culpable homicide - similar to manslaughter.

Appearing tense with a sick bucket by his side in the dock, the 27-year-old sprinter looked on as Judge Masipa called Pretoria's High Court to order at the start of the hearing.

During her summary of the case, she dismissed a series of heated text messages between the couple which the prosecution claimed was evidence they were in a volatile relationship.