Sunday, March 25, 2012
#Dewani: Money Exchanged In Return For A Dead Wife - Dewani A Rampant Homosexual Who Could Not Bear The Touch Of A Woman's Hand - Did Preyen And Shrien Arrange A Grieving 'Widower' For Life ?
Caught on film: Was this the moment Shrien Dewani 'handed over a bag full of cash to arrange his wife's murder'?
- Previously unseen CCTV images show millionaire meeting the man jailed for organising bride's murder
- Footage was recorded three days after Anni was shot dead in South Africa
- It shows Dewani taking a white plastic bag into a room and, after a brief meeting, Zola Tongo departs carrying the same bag
This is the moment honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani is alleged to have handed a bag of cash to his taxi driver in return for orchestrating the killing of his wife Anni.
The previously unseen CCTV footage shows millionaire Dewani meeting Zola Tongo – who has been jailed for 18 years for organising the murder. It was recorded three days after Dewani’s bride was shot dead in South Africa.
The footage, taken from the five-star Cape Town hotel where the honeymoon couple were staying, shows the two men entering the internet room. Dewani arrives carrying a white plastic bag and, after a brief meeting, Tongo departs carrying the same bag at his side.
Riddle: Shrien Dewani arrives at the internet room of the Cape Town hotel, where he and Anni were staying in South Africa
At the hotel: Carrying a bag, Shrien is followed by Zola Tongo - who has been jailed for organising the murder
The security camera footage from the Cape Grace Hotel has been obtained by the BBC’s Panorama team as part of a programme investigating the murder.
The footage also shows Anni, 28, and Dewani, now 32, kissing and embracing in an apparent display of affection just three hours before Anni was in the hands of her killers.
This contrasts with separate CCTV footage, previously obtained by this newspaper, showing Dewani and Anni walking yards apart that same night.
Tongo later leaves with the bag. He claims the bag contained 1,000 South African rand (about £82) in cash which was his payment for arranging the murder
Previously unseen: The footage was recorded three days after Anni was shot dead
Dewani is accused of paying two hitmen £1,400 to kill his wife. He denies the accusations.
Last year Home Secretary Theresa May rubber-stamped his extradition order after a campaign by Anni’s bereaved family, who demanded Dewani stand trial. He has appealed against the decision to the High Court.
In the footage, Dewani is shown talking to Anni’s father, Vinod Hindocha, after they had been to see Anni’s body at a morgue. Cameras show Tongo, in a white cap, shirt and shorts, walking through the hotel’s front entrance empty-handed.
Dewani then walks towards the internet room carrying the plastic bag, closely followed by the driver. Tongo emerges again, after one minute, with a bag-shaped object bulging under his shirt.
... but do these pictures show a couple in love?
Affection: Dewani and Anni are very touchy-feely in the Cape Grace Hotel just three hours before the tragic bride was killed in a rough suburb of Cape Town
The footage also tracks Anni and Dewani’s movements on the evening of November 13, 2010 – hours before Anni’s disappearance.
She presses her body up against Dewani as they kiss tenderly in the lobby. Briefly, she pulls away as he takes her picture on his phone before she is back into his arms in an embrace.
Earlier, in the hotel bar, Dewani zips up a loose fastening on his bride’s dress, after which she reaches across and strokes his thigh. Dewani then puts his arms around Anni, pulling her in, and they kiss again.
The footage contrasts with CCTV showing the couple at the Surfside restaurant in Strand, a resort 30 miles south-east of Cape Town, which Tongo drove them to.
Changing fortunes: Dewani, pictured with his bride Anni on their wedding day (left) and arriving at court for a hearing last year
At about 11pm, Anni was kidnapped and later murdered as the couple’s taxi drove through the notorious township of Gugulethu.
The distance between the pair appeared to grow in significance after Anni’s cousin, Sneha Hindocha, claimed Anni had tried to call off her lavish £200,000 wedding in India just days before the ceremony.
Sneha said Anni threw her engagement ring at Dewani after an argument.
It was also claimed Sneha received more than 100 texts from Anni which charted a turbulent and at times unhappy relationship with her husband-to-be.
Zola Tongo pictured during his trial in Cape Town High Court in December 2010
Charlotte Harris, the Dewani family’s lawyer, said: ‘Shrien has not been charged with any offence in any country. He is innocent and has always maintained his commitment to clearing his name of all the false allegations against him.’
The Dewani family declined to comment.
Panorama Special: The Honeymoon Murder will be shown on BBC1 on Thursday at 9pm.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119895/Shrien-Dewani-On-film-moment-Dewani-handed-bag-cash-arrange-wifes-murder.html#ixzz1q7prXS3z
Saturday, March 24, 2012
#Dewani : Prosecutors Warnings Over Panorama Documentary On Dewani Murder.
The programme features previously unseen CCTV footage allegedly showing Shrien Dewani making a payment following his new wife's death to the taxi driver who has admitted organising her murder.
The footage was filmed by security cameras inside the luxury Cape Race hotel in Cape Town and is said to show Dewani handing a package to Zola Tongo, 31, following the November 2010 tragedy.
The BBC said the footage also captured the moment Dewani is said to have commissioned the murder. But it also throws new light on the couple’s relationship with images depicting them interacting affectionately in the days prior to Mrs Dewani’s death.
Mthunzi Mhaga, spokesman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority, expressed concern about the programme, to be broadcast on Thursday, suggesting that it could prove an obstacle to justice if Dewani was put on trial.
"We are obviously concerned because the matter is pending before court and therefore sub judice, he told South Africa's News24 website.
"The documentary will amount to trial by media."
Dewani, 32, continues to fight extradition to South Africa, where prosecutors are determined to charge him with murder and put him on trial alongside two local men accused of being the gunmen.
The millionaire care home boss, from Bristol, and his new wife, a Swedish engineering graduate, were on honeymoon when she was abducted and shot dead.
Dewani claimed he was thrown out of their taxi and feared for his life following the abduction.
However he was later named a suspect in the murder after Tongo claimed in court that Dewani had paid him £1,400 to organise the hit.
Last year Theresa May, the Home Secretary, signed an order allowing Dewani to be sent to South Africa for trial.
The entrepreneur, who claims to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, is now awaiting the result of an appeal against the decision.
His lawyers have argued he could be denied a fair trial following the extensive media coverage of the case.
Dewani, 32, continues to fight extradition to South Africa, where prosecutors are determined to charge him with murder and put him on trial alongside two local men accused of being the gunmen.
The millionaire care home boss, from Bristol, and his new wife, a Swedish engineering graduate, were on honeymoon when she was abducted and shot dead.
Dewani claimed he was thrown out of their taxi and feared for his life following the abduction.
However he was later named a suspect in the murder after Tongo claimed in court that Dewani had paid him £1,400 to organise the hit.
Last year Theresa May, the Home Secretary, signed an order allowing Dewani to be sent to South Africa for trial.
The entrepreneur, who claims to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, is now awaiting the result of an appeal against the decision.
His lawyers have argued he could be denied a fair trial following the extensive media coverage of the case.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9163939/Prosecutors-warnings-over-Panorama-doc-on-Dewani-murder.html
#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.
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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.
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.
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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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
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
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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Thursday, March 8, 2012
#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.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Shrien-Dewani-on-Cape-Town-court-papers-20120210
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.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Shrien-Dewani-on-Cape-Town-court-papers-20120210
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