#Dewani Murder: CCTV Footage Showing Dewani Paying Off One Of Those Who Arranged The Murder Of His Wife (allegedly)

Had this tape been innocent as Shrien claims, his brother Preyen would not have tried to snatch it back in a devious manipulative way. In my opinion Preyen is the mastermind behind the killing, he used the murder of Dr.Pox as his template.I am surprised the police had not thought of this.

CCTV footage which allegedly shows the honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani paying a taxi driver for organising his wife's death is to be shown on television.

The footage is due to be screened on BBC's Panorama on Thursday. It was taken from the couple's hotel in Cape Town, and allegedly shows Mr Dewani preparing to hand over a plastic bag to a taxi driver two days after the murder of his wife, Anni, 28.

Mr Dewani, 32, from Bristol, denies murder. A High Court judgment on his appeal against extradition to South Africa is due within weeks.

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#Dewani: #Panorama to air CCTV tape that Dewani brother attempted to seize

The brother of Shrien Dewani, the British man accused of paying for his wife to be murdered on honey-moon, attempted to obtain potentially incriminating CCTV footage, leaked police documents claim.

Shrien Dewani is accused by South African police of arranging the contract killing of wife Anni in November last year. She was shot after the apparent hijacking of their taxi in a township in Cape Town.

 Preyen Dewani is said to have asked the security manager of the Cape Grace Hotel, Cape Town, to hand over footage of Shrien talking to Zola Tongo, the couple’s taxi driver. Tongo, 31, is serving 18 years after confessing to organising the killing, in which he claims Shrien is implicated. 

Killed: Ann Dewani with husband Shrien the day they married

The alleged request for the footage was rejected because the manager had been summoned by prosecutors as a possible witness. The claim is made in a police dossier obtained by The Mail on Sunday and forms part of an application by South African authorities to have Shrien extradited from the UK to stand trial.

 In the dossier, police captain Paul Hendrikse says Preyen asked for the footage soon after Shrien returned to Britain following Anni’s death. ‘I am concerned there may have been an attempt to interfere with the investigation,’ the officer says.

 Preyen, 32, is a director of the Bristol-based care-home company run by Shrien. According to the police dossier, the footage shows Shrien staying in the cab that drove him and Anni from the airport the day before the killing and talking to Tongo for four minutes while Anni, 28, booked into the hotel.

Captain Hendrikse says mobile-phone records prove the two men had another conversation that night. Shrien’s lawyers insist he is innocent and that Tongo tried to incriminate him to get a reduced sentence.

Denial: Shrien Dewani insists that he had nothing to do with his wife's death

The dossier claims Tongo returned to the hotel two days after the body was found and was handed a white plastic packet of money by Shrien, allegedly in payment for carrying out the killing. Mr Dewani claims he was paying for a taxi fare.

Shrien, 31, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, has repeatedly denied being involved in Anni’s death. His extradition hearing is set to begin on May 3. If sent to South Africa, he will be tried alongside alleged hitmen Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25, and Xolile Mngeni, 23, who are said to have confessed to their part in the killing.

Last month, magistrates in London released Shrien on £250,000 bail. A spokesman for Preyen said the hotel was asked to retain CCTV footage ‘under lawyer’s instructions’, adding that a High Court judge confirmed during Shrien’s extradition hearing that ‘this was not an attempt to interfere with the investigation’.

Solicitor Charlotte Harris, who acts for the Dewani family, said: ‘At all times my clients have sought to assist the police with their investigation.’

A friend of the Dewanis said: ‘This is another desperate attempt by South African police to smear the family instead of finding the real killers.’
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#Dewani:Pre-trial conference for April 13 as judgment was being awaited on Dewani's appeal in the United Kingdom against an order granted for his extradition to South Africa.

Cape Town - Shrien Dewani is to be added as the fourth accused in the honeymoon murder of his bride Anni, the Western Cape High Court heard on Friday.

Senior State advocate Shareen Riley said Dewani was scheduled to join two of the other accused in the dock when the trial eventually got under way.

These two, Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni, appeared briefly in the High Court on Friday at a pre-trial conference before Judge Andre le Grange.

In earlier proceedings, the remaining accused, Zola Tonga, was jailed for 18 years for his part in the murder, in terms of a plea bargain.

On Friday, Riley asked the court to schedule a second pre-trial conference for April 13 as judgment was being awaited on Dewani's appeal in the United Kingdom against an order granted for his extradition to South Africa.

She said there was as yet no indication when the appeal judgment would be handed down.

Dewani, while on honeymoon with his wife in December 2010, allegedly hired three men to kill her in a staged hijacking in Cape Town's Gugulethu township.
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#Dewani : Dewani Defence Team Playing On Their Clients ' Delicate Health' To STAND Trial - He Can SIT We Have No Objection !

Local authorities have yet to be told if Shrien Dewani's appeal against his extradition to South Africa has been successful.

In December, Dewani, accused of orchestrating the November 2010 murder of his wife Anni in Cape Town, appealed in London's High Court against the go-ahead for his extradition to South Africa.

A spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, Mthunzi Mhaga, said: "Judgment was reserved. All parties involved will be notified by the registrar of the court of the date when judgment will be delivered."

In August, the Belmarsh Magistrate's Court found that Dewani could be extradited to South Africa to stand trial.

The following month British Home Secretary Theresa May signed his extradition orders.

But Dewani's defence team launched an appeal arguing, among other things, that he was too ill to stand trial in South Africa.


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Anni #Dewani Was The Hitman's ONLY Target

Anni Dewani, the Indian-origin bride killed in South Africa during her honeymoon, was a hitman's only target, one of her hijackers has claimed.

According to a report in the Daily Mirror, Xolile Mngeni told prison bosses the 28-year-old newly-wed was executed as she cowered in the back of the cab he had snatched.

And Mngeni alleged 30-year-old care home boss Shrien opened the door of the taxi and walked away before his wife was shot dead and he was not thrown out of the window as he claims, the report said.

23-year-old Mngeni was speaking about the last moments of Anni's life from a prison near Cape Town where he is awaiting trial for murder and kidnap.

His claims contradict those that Anni and her husband Shrien were the victims of a botched robbery while on honeymoon in South Africa.

A jail source said: "The purpose of the exercise was simply to kill. Rape was never part of the plan."

Butt Mngeni, 23, stopped short of implicating Shrien – fighting extradition to South Africa where he faces charges over his wife's death – claiming he did not know who ordered Anni's death. He has not revealed whether he or co-accused Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25, pulled the trigger.

The jail source added: "He has admitted he was at the heart of it. He says he was told by Qwabe that there was somebody he needed to kill and he would be paid."

Mngeni and Qwabe travelled together to an arranged ambush point in the township of Gugulethu where Anni and Shrien arrived in a taxi driven by Zola Tongo.

The 31-year-old cabbie, jailed for 18 years for his part in the murder, claims Shrien paid the gang 1,400 pounds to have his wife killed.The Bristol businessman has strenuously denied any involvement in Anni's death, describing the claims as "ludicrous".

His lawyer, Clare Montgomery claimed a group of robbers and murderers were desperate to escape a life sentence by falsely accusing him.

Shrien's representative Max Clifford also rejected Mngeni's claims after the accused alleged he was tortured during interrogation. He said: "If this man was tortured, then you cannot rely too much.


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#Dewani #StephenLawrence: Max Clifford Gave Free Consultation To The Killers Of Stephen Lawrence

Max Clifford is advising the five suspects linked with the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Clifford told the Sun that he is offering the men unpaid consultation and has advised them to appear on the BBC’s Panorama programme in an attempt to clear their names.

You may view the PANORAMA documentary here

http://smileyculturelies.blogspot.com/2012/01/stephenlawrence-suspect-interviews-1999.html

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Shrien Dewani :Is It Down To The Word Of Tongo Against Dewani ?

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