How he was judged to be anything other was the mystery.
The South African Supreme Court has now come to the right decision.
Anyone who is familiar with guns, as Pistorius is, knows that if you spray a bathroom door with bullets at torso height from a high calibre weapon anyone behind that door is likely to die. It does not matter who the person is, Pistorius shot to kill whoever was there.
He was obviously not that scared of whoever was in the bathroom as he attacked the door with a cricket bat. Had they been armed that action would have put him in the line of fire. He must have known that.