WATCH: 'I pray for them every day' - Oscar responds during huge media scrum

Media swarmed around Oscar Pistorius as he tried to leave the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria at the end of the second day of his sentencing proceedings.

After an emotionally-charged day that saw Reeva Steenkamp's father Barry take the stand to describe the pain and trauma of the loss of his daughter, Pistorius left the court only to be swamped by local and international media.

A ring of police officers tried to buffer the paralympian as they escorted him from the court house to his vehicle. At one point he is forced to stop in the middle of the road apparently unable to move forward as he was bombarded with questions.

At one point Pistorius tells a journalist that he prays for the Steenkamp's everyday. See the video below.

The Paralympic athlete killed Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013, saying he mistook her for a burglar when he fired four times through the door of his bedroom toilet.

In March, Pistorius's lawyers failed to reverse an appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide to murder.

Judge Thokozile Masipa is due to hand down a new sentence for murder after arguments from both prosecution and defence.