#Dewani Murder : CK And Excercise Are Techniques In Use To Avoid Extradition

Creatine kinase is a substance found in the blood when muscle injury has occurred. When muscle tissue gets damaged, it leaks into the blood. Creatine kinase levels are analyzed by conducting a normal blood test on an individual. A creatine kinase test takes just a few seconds as blood is drawn from a vein in the upper forearm. This test poses minimal risks to the patient as it simply involves a tiny puncture which is usually covered immediately with an adhesive tape. This adhesive tape seeks to prevent any infection from infiltrating the site. It also ensures that there is no excess bleeding from the site, something that may happen if the vein is improperly punctured. There is a relationship between creatine kinase levels and exercise. A creatine kinase test after exercise will show elevated levels of creatine kinase.

This is why subjects who are due to have a creatine kinase test for diagnostic purposes are told not to exercise for up to 6 hours before the test is conducted.

 The creatine kinase levels after workout are often a source of confusion. There are several variables that affect the creatine kinase levels after fitness workout. Creatine kinase elevation is associated with muscle damage. With that being the case, the amount of muscle damage suffered by an individual is relevant. A person who is untrained and unfit will display higher creatine kinase levels after exercise whereas the same individual on the same exercise routine may display lower creatine kinase after exercise once a fair amount of physical fitness has been achieved. There are also variations associated with the type of exercise that is being undertaken. Exercise that involves weight lifting and downhill running are considered to cause a higher elevation of creatine kinase than other types of exercises. Factors such as temperature and vibration also affect the level of creatine kinase. See also creatine kinase normal range

What can be therefore understood from all this is the fact that the level of creatine kinase does indeed rise after strenuous exercise done over a period of time.

This rise is because the muscles are either damaged or tend to be overstressed, leading to them leaking some creatine kinase into the blood.

What is unclear is the exact rate at which creatine kinase is deposited in the blood.

This is because of the numerous variations present in the exercise routines and the changing fitness levels of the concerned individual.


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#Dewani Murder : CK Level Trick To Prevent Extradition ?

It would appear as long as Shrien Dewani keeps up his intensive exercise regime his CK enzymes will continue to rise and as long as they are up he is unable to take medication to cure his ' depression'. It would also appear that as long as Dewani's CK level's are high it is impossible to assess him for extradition . Hmmm I wonder who taught him that little trick !


OJ Simpson suffers from arthritis and cannot drink orange juice due to the acidic content. Two days before during his murder trial, his hot shot lawyers suggested he drank as much juice as possible to inflame his arthritic joints. Hey presto, in front of live TV and a jury the gloves were too small ! 




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 Hugo Keith QC, representing the South African government, however, noted that staff at Fromeside Clinic had observed Dewani exercising for “hours on end” and pointed out the anomaly to the court.

Keith said the exercise, which lasted up to two hours and included sit-ups, press-ups, skipping and weight training, extended to home visits where he used his family’s gym.

Cantrell said this was “consistent with his mental state”.

Keith suggested Dewani’s exercise regimen was contributing to his blood enzymes, creatine kinase (CK), rising.

The CK level was preventing doctors prescribing anti-depressants because they might cause psychosis.

Keith said the raised CK level made it impossible to assess when he will be deemed fit for extradition.

#Dewani Murder : U.K. Human Rights.

The Government of the Republic of South Africa v Shrien Dewani- Read decision
The extradition to South Africa of Shrien Dewani, the man accused of murdering his wife on honeymoon there in 2010, has been delayed pending an improvement in his mental health.

The case made headlines in 2010, when the story broke of a honeymooning couple who had been ambushed in the township of Gugulethu, South Africa. Mr Dewani told police he had been travelling in a taxi which was ambushed by two men. He described being forced from the car at gunpoint and the car driving away with his wife still inside. She was found dead shortly after.  However, evidence emerged which led the South African authorities to believe that Mr Dewani had initiated a conspiracy with the taxi driver and the men who ambushed the taxi to murder his new wife. Consequently, they sought his extradition from the UK, to which he had returned, to face a trial for murder.

In an appeal to the High Court from a decision by a Senior District Judge that Mr Dewani could be extradited, Mr Dewani made two arguments:

1.    Prison conditions in South Africa were such that his Articles 2 (right to life) and 3 (prohibition on torture, inhuman and degrading treatment) Convention rights would be violated if he were extradited;

2.    His mental health and risk of suicide were such that his should not be extradited.

Articles 2 and 3 and prison conditions
Mr Dewani argued that his extradition would violate these two rights because of the risks he would face due to contemporary prison conditions in South Africa. The South African government had given undertakings that he would be held in a single cell in various prisons if extradited. The lower Court had heard evidence that there was serious overcrowding in South African prisons, and that this impacted upon the availability of healthcare and treatment for those with mental illnesses. Gang problems within prisons were noted, with non-members in communal cells sometimes being subjected to rape and intimidation. The risk of HIV/AIDS being transmitted in a sexual assault was another factor of relevance. There was evidence that Mr Dewani would be at particular risk of sexual violence, being someone who was “youthful, good looking and [who] lacked “street wisdom”” (paragraph 18).
The High Court concluded that there was no basis for differing from the decision of the lower Court. It noted,

There are plainly risks of violence, particularly sexual violence, to a prisoner held in a communal cell in South Africa, though it is not necessary for us to quantify those risks as applicable to the appellant. That is because the Government of South Africa has given clear undertakings that the appellant would be held in a single cell...what happens in a single cell bore no relation to what happened in communal cells…South Africa has now a material track record of respect for democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Those are highly material factors to the court’s acceptance of the undertakings...” (Paragraph 33)

Mr Dewani’s health
That was not the end of the story however. Considerable evidence had been before the lower Court about Mr Dewani’s mental state after the events giving rise to the extradition request.  Experts agreed that he was suffering from two psychiatric conditions, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), both severely. Suicide was a real risk if he were extradited. However, they also agreed that his condition was likely to improve.

Of particular concern was that he was unfit to plead (in general terms this means being unable to take part in the trial, understand the proceedings and give instructions to a legal team – in Mr Dewani’s case the experts considered he could not follow the detail of the evidence and instruct his lawyers).

Of significance was the fact that there was no undertaking from the South African government that Mr Dewani would be treated in a particular psychiatric unit if extradited. A psychiatrist at a specialist medium secure psychiatric care unit in South Africa provided written evidence that he would be very likely to be referred to this hospital if extradited and he would stay until fit to plead or perhaps indefinitely.

The question of Mr Dewani’s mental state raised issues both regarding Articles 2 and 3 and section 91 of the Extradition Act 2003. Section 91(3)(b) requires courts to discharge or adjourn extradition proceedings where  the person in question’s mental or physical health is such that “it would be unjust or oppressive to extradite him”.

After the decision of the lower Court, new evidence was produced indicating that Mr Dewani’s condition was slowly improving, but he remained unfit to plead.

In considering section 91, the High Court stressed that every case is fact sensitive, so previous decisions are not greatly useful. It also noted that in the ordinary case, extradition will cause stress and hardship by its very nature. It was “plainly in the interests of justice that [Mr Dewani] be tried in South Africa as soon as he is fit to be tried” (paragraph 78).

However, extraditing him would pose “a real and significant risk to his life” (paragraph 80) and there was evidence that it would make it harder to improve his condition so that he became fit to plead. Ultimately, the Court found,

Thus balancing his unfitness to plead, the risk of a deterioration in the appellant’s condition, the increased prospects of a speedier recovery if he remains here and, to a much lesser degree, the risk of suicide and the lack of clear certainty as to what would happen to the appellant if returned in his present condition, we consider that on the evidence before the Senior District Judge it would be unjust and oppressive to order his extradition. (Paragraph 83)

Given this position, the Court did not come to a concluded view on whether Articles 2 and 3 would be breached by extradition, with regard to Mr Dewani’s mental state. At later proceedings, it will remain open to Mr Dewani to argue that there would be a risk of breach, given the facilities available in South Africa and his health at that time.

Consequently, he will not be extradited at the present time, but later developments in this case are likely to continue to be controversial and heavily publicised.

http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2012/03/31/no-extradition-for-shrien-dewani-for-now/ 

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#Dewani Murder : Master Manipulator Or Mentally Unfit ?

Shrien Dewani, looking dazed and somewhat confused, shuffled into courtroom three of the Belmarsh Magistrates Court this week and was directed to the accused dock by his psychiatrist, Dr Paul Cantrell.

Within 10 minutes, he was walking out of the arched-roofed courtroom assisted by two staff of the Fromeside Mental Clinic where is he being kept under Britain’s Mental Health Act.

District Court Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle allowed Dewani to leave after his lawyer, Clare Montgomery, successfully argued he was “mentally frail”, had arrived at court against the advice of his doctors and probably could not follow proceedings.

This set the tone for the rest of the four days as Dewani’s fitness to plea, his mental state and whether he was faking it, dominated the hearing.

Dewani is accused of plotting the murder of his bride Anni Hindocha who was shot dead in Gugulethu, Cape Town on November 13 last year.

South African authorities want Dewani to be extradited to Cape Town to stand trial alongside the two alleged hit men, Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni, who are in police custody.

The Belmarsh Magistrates Court in south-east London is attached to the infamous Belmarsh prison. The court building has been renovated and has an arched roof with glass ceilings that allow in the natural light.

In courtroom three this week, Dewani’s family took up seats in the public gallery above the courtroom while Anni’s family - all 10 of them - filled the seats usually reserved for jurors.

Since being named as a suspect in his wife’s murder, Dewani has been diagnosed with severe depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the court was told.

Cantrell said extraditing Dewani to South Africa would affect his mental health to such an extent that he would deteriorate and become suicidal.

In addition, Cantrell said Dewani had developed a condition known as psychomotor retardation, which slowed down his every movement “as if he is thinking or moving in mud”.

Cantrell explained that this was the reason for Dewani’s laboured movements in court earlier in the day.

Hugo Keith QC, representing the South African government, however, noted that staff at Fromeside Clinic had observed Dewani exercising for “hours on end” and pointed out the anomaly to the court.

Keith said the exercise, which lasted up to two hours and included sit-ups, press-ups, skipping and weight training, extended to home visits where he used his family’s gym.

Cantrell said this was “consistent with his mental state”.

Keith suggested Dewani’s exercise regimen was contributing to his blood enzymes, creatine kinase (CK), rising.

The CK level was preventing doctors prescribing anti-depressants because they might cause psychosis.

Keith said the raised CK level made it impossible to assess when he will be deemed fit for extradition.

Cantrell said he did not believe Dewani was faking elevated CK levels.

Keith asked Cantrell whether Dewani’s habit of spending his days in a darkened room rather than going outside was a ploy to suppress his Vitamin D levels which made him look pale.

Cantrell said Dewani did not want to go out in the garden as another patient had been abusing him. He said Dewani believed someone was talking to him from outside his door but when he went to look no one would be there.

Professor Michael Kopelman, a neuropsychiatrist testifying on behalf of the South African government, agreed with Cantrell and another expert, Professor Nigel Eastman, that Dewani was mentally unfit to stand trial.

Kopelman said the fact that Dewani wanted to stay in a darkened room was “part of his clinical condition rather than design”.

Asked if there was any deliberation by Dewani to fake his mental illness, Kopelman said: “I can’t exclude the possibility that there may be some evidence of conscious manipulation.”

Dewani is fighting his extradition based on the argument that South African prisons are dangerous and he risks being raped; that he is not mentally fit to plead to any charges in the country, and that extraditing him would violate his human rights.

His lawyer Clare Montgomery QC entered into evidence reports including a UNAids report on South Africa’s prisons and the findings of the 2005 Jali Commission highlighting conditions in South African jails.

She said extraditing Dewani to South Africa would be “inhumane”.

The South African government has undertaken that if Dewani is extradited he will be confined to a single cell with a flushing toilet, hot and cold water in a top prison.

Sitting outside court this week, Anni’s uncle, Ashrok Hindoch said: “They are talking about gangs, drugs and rape in prison. This happens in every prison in the world, even in Sweden.

This case should be based on facts.

We are not accusing anyone of anything.

If Shrien is innocent he must go to South Africa and point out the bastards who killed Anni.”

Judgment is expected to be handed down on August 10. - Saturday Star

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#Dewani Murder :' The Master' ' Shrien Liked It Rough With Mr. T Types.

Murdered honeymoon bride Anni Dewani told a close relative that her marriage to the man accused of organising her killing was not consummated on their wedding night.

She made the startling claim in text messages sent to her cousin just days before she was brutally shot dead in the Mother City.

The Daily Voice has learned of the texts through sources close to the investigation here.

According to Anni’s texts:

* The newlyweds Anni and Shrien did not consummate their marriage immediately after the wedding;

* Dewani “did not touch” his beautiful new bride on their wedding night.

A British newspaper previously revealed details of text messages Anni sent before her wedding in which she expressed reservations about marrying Dewani.

But this is the first time there has been any indication that Anni was unhappy after the wedding ceremony.

The source close to the Cape Town murder probe also mentions that statements were taken from men who claim to have had sexual relationships with Dewani, as widely reported elsewhere.

“Police interviewed the man known as ‘The Master’ when they went overseas for their investigation and he kept a paper trail,” the source tells the Daily Voice.

“Apparently Shrien liked it rough with men who looked like Mr T,” according to the statements from “The Master”.

Days after Dewani was arrested in 2010, a German male prostitute who adver-tises his services as “The Master” claimed that Dewani paid him for sex.

Gay escort Leopold Leisser told cops he met Dewani for sex in the Midlands and West London several times between September 2009 and April 2010.

He claimed he was paid about R12 000 for his services.

And earlier this week a UK political figure alleged he had S&M sex sessions with Dewani.

The man made a statement to cops in which he claimed Dewani enjoyed dressing up in leather and loved rough sex in which he was dominated.

The respected political aide also claims he had a series of sordid encounters at gay fetish club The Hoist in London with Dewani.

He told cops they first met at the club nine years ago and that Dewani was a “submissive” who enjoyed S&M and dressing up in leather.

The 53-year-old man also told police they had sex in a room of the club where “spanking and punishment” parties are hosted on several occasions between 2003 and 2008.

He allegedly decided to come forward with the revelations following Dewani’s denials that he was secretly gay.

Dewani is currently wanted in South Africa to face charges of murder, conspiracy to murder, robbery, kidnapping and interfering with the course of justice for his alleged role in her murder.

Anni was killed in a hijacking in Gugulethu on November 13, 2010, for which Dewani has been charged.

The previous day the newlyweds had checked into the plush Cape Grace hotel as part of their honeymoon.

Anni’s body was discovered slumped in the back seat of a hired taxi with a single bullet wound to her neck.

Dewani was implicated in the murder when taxi driver Zola Tongo entered into a plea deal with the State for his role in Anni’s murder.

Tongo was sentenced to five years for kidnapping, 15 years for robbery, five years for obstruction of justice [for initially lying to cops about the hijacking] and 25 years for murder with seven years suspended for five years.

In his plea deal, he said he had been hired by Dewani to find “a hitman to have a woman killed”.

*This story first appeared in the Daily Voice

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