Earlier, he was convicted of firing a gun in a crowded restaurant but cleared of a second firearms charge in which he was accused of firing a gun through a car sunroof.
At he arrived at court, the Paralympian was surrounded by bodyguards as he pushed his way through the throng of media to get inside the Pretoria High Court.
The double-amputee sobbed yesterday as he was dramatically cleared of two murder charges over the Valentine's Day shooting at his home in Pretoria last year.
But judge Thokozile Masipa had hinted the 27-year-old may be convicted of a lesser charge of culpable homicide after describing his actions as 'negligent' on the night she died.
Culpable homicide - the South African equivalent of manslaughter - carries up to 15 years in prison but
has no minimum sentence and could see him given a suspended term.
She told the court in Pretoria, which included members of both the defendant's and the victim's
families, that Pistorius acted 'hastily' with 'too much force' when he fired four bullets through his toilet door in the early hours of February 14 2013.
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