BREAKING NEWS: Oscar Pistorius found NOT GUILTY of murdering his lover Reeva Steenkamp - But Still Waits To Hear If He Is Guilty Of Her Manslaughter [Read More]

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. 

'Facts wrong'

Judge Masipa began by detailing the charges against the athlete and repeating extracts of his testimony, reading in a slow, measured way.

She then moved on to a summary of the trial.