tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57196478691945503112024-03-05T18:56:51.027-08:00DEWANI ARCHIVESUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-60765260986976014502012-04-07T02:37:00.002-07:002012-04-07T02:39:08.916-07:00#Dewani :Sneha Hindocha Facebook Message -Hope you are comfortable in your dead cousin's saris - The vicious message that left murder victim's best friend distraught<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The best friend and cousin of honeymoon murder victim Anni Dewani has been left distraught after receiving a vicious message criticising her for not doing more to save her life.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The message sent to Sneha Hindocha via Facebook also hurtfully stated: ‘Hope you are comfortable in your dead cousin’s saris.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 27-year-old believes the message may have been sent by supporters of Anni’s husband Shrien Dewani, who is accused of orchestrating the killing during the couple’s honeymoon in South Africa.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Last week Home Secretary Theresa May rubber-stamped an extradition order to send Mr Dewani to Cape Town to answer claims that he offered to pay two hitmen £1,400 to kill his 28-year-old wife in a faked carjacking.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The move follows a campaign by the bereaved Hindocha family, who demanded the British businessman stand trial to give them the answers that would allow them closure.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Facebook missive was one of five threatening messages Miss Hindocha says were sent to her after it was reported she had told police that Anni had considered calling off her wedding because she was unsure if she loved her husband.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It read: ‘At the prayers in bristol you lied to everyone. if you really knew that then you should have done something about it – you could have saved her life. ps. hope you are comfortable in all your dead cousin’s sari’s [sic] that you have taken.’</span><br />
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Hate campaign: Victim Sneha Hindocha who was Anni Dewani's cousin and best friend </div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Hindocha believes the message may have been sent by a supporter of Mr Dewani because the only prayers she has attended in Bristol took place at Mr Dewani’s home in Westbury-on-Trym just days after Anni’s murder.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Facebook message was sent under the name ‘Sneha Mushru’ – the name Miss Hindocha will take when she marries her fiance next year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This further convinced her the sender had knowledge of the Hindocha family.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Hindocha said: ‘It must be someone who knows me. I know who I think it is but I don’t want to say anything because I don’t want to cause any problems.’ Miss Hindocha and Anni moved to Britain together and shared a flat in Luton before Anni married Mr Dewani in India two weeks before her murder.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She said the cruel words in the message hurt her deeply.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘When I read it the first time I started to cry and I got more and more guilty feelings,’ she said. ‘I already had a kind of guilt – you always say, “I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Me and Anni would just talk about everything like we always did but now I wish I had said different things to her.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘But that’s something I have to live with every day, I don’t need someone throwing it in my face and saying you could have stopped [her dying].</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I got more and more frightened because it’s just messages now, but what’s next?’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Dewani was implicated in his wife’s murder by Zolo Tongo, the couple’s taxi driver in Cape Town, who claimed in a plea bargain that Mr Dewani had arranged the killing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tongo has already been jailed for 18 years after admitting his part in the crime. Two other men, one seriously ill with a brain tumour, face trial next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Millionaire Shrien Dewani, 30, pleaded with the gunmen who ambushed them on honeymoon to seize the wedding bands. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He and terrified Anni, 28 — both held in their chauffeured car at gunpoint as the driver was ordered to put his foot down — also offered the bride’s engagement ring along with cash, jewellery, watches and their mobile phones. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This morning, a 26-year-old man was charged with murder and hijacking. He will appear in court tomorrow. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The groom’s shattered brother Preyen, 32, said as South African cops yesterday grilled a suspect over the carjacking in a Cape Town slum: “Shrien offered them everything they had. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u>The VW Sharan was still moving when the groom was hurled out — although he was remarkably uninjured.</u> The car’s driver Zola Tongo, 31 — who had been bundled out of it earlier — insisted: “It wasn’t my fault. I am beside myself with grief.” Swedish-born graduate Anni was found in the car next day — shot three times. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Last night Shrien, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol — who runs care home company PSP Healthcare — was flying back to the UK with her body. His tycoon dad Prakash was with him. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Shrien and Anni wed in Mumbai and were four days into a honeymoon. They chose South Africa because it shared their SA initials. </em></span><br />
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THE family of a British businessman accused of ordering the brutal killing of his wife on their South African honeymoon plans to build a school in her memory. </h2>
Authorities are seeking to extradite Shrien Dewani after a taxi driver serving time for his part in the horrific crime claimed the wealthy care home owner set a hit man on Anni. <br />
Her 30-year-old husband denies any involvement in the death of his bride, who friends and relatives have described as “the woman of his dreams”. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>His family is now planning to join with 28-year-old Anni’s family to create some good out of the tragedy, by building a school in India, where they have roots. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The two groups of relatives will fund the project using thousands of pounds in donations from well-wishers. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A close family member of Dewani’s said: “We’ve collected over £15,000 jointly between the families from people who wanted to pay tribute to Anni and that money’s going to be used to build a school in India in her memory. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>“Anni’s been taken from us all and we won’t get her back but what we can do is give to, and help, other people.” </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A page has been set up online by a Dewani family member so the public can donate to a residential school for about 500 students from the tribes around the border of Dang in Gujarat and Nashik in Maharashtra in the west of the country. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The family member added: “Even people who didn’t know Anni have been donating.” </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>And while Dewani has received the full support of his local community in Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol, the families have also been overwhelmed by a wave of international support. ...read more</em></span></div>
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Earlier this month, CNN-IBN came out with spectacular exposes on money laundering by Hindu godmen. The culprits included <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/05_2007/money-launderer-gets-key-to-ram-temple-funds-39845.html" jquery1300624919254="33"><span style="color: #004276;">Ram Vilas Vedanti</span></a> (or more respectfully, Vedanti Maharaj), <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/southern-seer-turns-dirty-money-holy-says-no-sin/39851-3.html" jquery1300624919254="34"><span style="color: #004276;">Guruvayur Surya Nambudiri</span></a> and <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/godman-turning-black-money-to-white/39841-3.html" jquery1300624919254="35"><span style="color: #004276;">Kapil Advait</span></a> (alias Pilot Baba)<br />
<ul><li>Vedanti is a former chairman of the Ramjanmabhoomi Trust, a <a href="http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12up24.htm" jquery1300624919254="36"><span style="color: #004276;">former BJP MP</span></a>, and a <a href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070504/main7.htm" jquery1300624919254="37"><span style="color: #004276;">star campaigner</span></a> for the BJP in the recent elections in Uttar Pradesh (where it suffered a humiliating defeat).</li>
<li>Surya Nambudiri (also spelled Namboodiri) is apparently famous for making prophecies — what’s a godman without the power to prophecy — and after a tough bargain, agrees to turn 100 million of black money into white money for a 15% commission. Not surprisingly, he couldn’t foretell his own future.</li>
<li>Kapil Advait is a former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_%28rank%29"><span style="color: #004276;">wing commander</span></a>-turned-godman, engaged in money laundering for commissions ranging from 20% to 50%.</li>
</ul>As expected, the Sangh Parivar jumped to the godmen’s defense. The BJP spokesperson <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/political-war-after-godmen-expose/39887-3.html" jquery1300624919254="38"><span style="color: #004276;">said</span></a>:<br />
<blockquote>The names that your channel has discussed are all respectable people. I am not sure how authentic this sting operation is.</blockquote>And the VHP Vice-President Giriraj Kishore <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/political-war-after-godmen-expose/39887-3.html" jquery1300624919254="39"><span style="color: #004276;">said</span></a>:<br />
<blockquote>What is the purpose behind a sting operation? And why are Hindus always maligned?</blockquote>Confused? Here’s the train of thought: VHP (and the Sangh Parivar) represents all Hindus, the exposed godmen are sympathetic to the Sangh Parivar, so an expose of their fraudulent activities is equivalent to maligning all Hindus. Besides, as Swami Nirliptananda, Secretary of the London Sevashram Sangha and a member of the <a href="http://www.hinduforum.org/Default.aspx?sID=724&cID=65&ctID=36&lID=0" jquery1300624919254="40"><span style="color: #004276;">Hindu Forum of Britain</span></a>’s Spiritual Body Commission, recently observed:<br />
<blockquote>Even among human beings, saintly people occupy a different status from others.</blockquote>According to <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/godmen-turn-conmen-taxman-red/39860-3.html" jquery1300624919254="41"><span style="color: #004276;">former income tax commissioner Vishwabandhu Gupta</span></a>:<br />
<blockquote>[This is] a fit case for criminal proceedings. <strong>Two of the biggest religion mafias are the Ram Janmanbhoomi Nyas and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad amongst the Hindus</strong>. They have 10 bogus trusts floated from the same address. The names are there (in our record) and so are the addresses. They are getting money from 50 countries abroad and are also getting tax exemptions. There are no accounts as well. You see, this is a big menace. We have calculated and found that religious leaders annually earn $3 billion which is about Rs 10,000 crore -Rs 15,000 crore worth of money. What they do is they get land at throwaway prices. During the last government, 11 including that <strong>Sadhvi Ritambhara</strong> – whatever her qualifications are – got a fantastic (sic) piece of land at a throwaway price for the services that she heads today. There have fraudulent names, addresses, existences and expenditures. They use it for spreading communal hatred. Money has been used by Bajrang Dal cadres in Gujarat to purchase Motorola, we have got receipts for that.</blockquote>For instance, the RSS does not have <a href="http://mha.nic.in/fcra.htm" jquery1300624919254="42"><span style="color: #004276;">FCRA</span></a> clearance and cannot directly accept foreign donations, so has created service wings like the <a href="http://www.stopfundinghate.org/sacw/appendixc.html" jquery1300624919254="43"><span style="color: #004276;">Sewa International</span></a> and <a href="http://www.stopfundinghate.org/sacw/appendixd.html" jquery1300624919254="44"><span style="color: #004276;">Sewa Bharati</span></a> which have FCRA clearance. The RSS’s fundraising fronts abroad — <a href="http://www.stopfundinghate.org/sacw/" jquery1300624919254="45"><span style="color: #004276;">IDRF</span></a>, SewaUSA, <a href="http://hsctruthout.stopfundinghate.org/appB.html" jquery1300624919254="46"><span style="color: #004276;">VHP of America</span></a>, <a href="http://hsctruthout.stopfundinghate.org/appB.html" jquery1300624919254="47"><span style="color: #004276;">Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh</span></a>, <a href="http://www.awaazsaw.org/ibf/" jquery1300624919254="48"><span style="color: #004276;">Sewa International UK</span></a>, Hindu Forum of Britain etc. — divert funds to the RSS through Sewa Bharati and Sewa International. Given the Sangh Parivar’s access to state power and propensity to violence, its brand of fundamentalism poses the biggest danger to a pluralistic India, but the role of Christian fundamentalist groups like <a href="http://www.stopfundinghate.org/actions/letters/ltr020205.htm" jquery1300624919254="49"><span style="color: #004276;">World Vision</span></a> (which apparently <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/political-war-after-godmen-expose/39887-3.html" jquery1300624919254="50"><span style="color: #004276;">disbursed</span></a> 95 crores in India last year) cannot be glossed over either.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-89857316383011540122011-03-20T05:11:00.001-07:002011-03-20T05:11:26.932-07:00Searching for a South African connection<strong><span style="font-size: large;">"HUM" subscription now available online!</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">HUM has been restyled and re-released taking on board suggestions from all over the community. With contributors from the UK, USA, India and <span style="color: magenta;">South Africa</span> the magazine is truly international and makes for an interesting read for everyone. Subscription is a must for everyone and you can now subscribe over the internet for only £5 a year (discounts available for students). To subscribe visit </span><a href="http://64.4.10.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=1c34399708dfe175cd07265af118eda0&lat=1075831074&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2enhsf%2eorg%2euk%2fhum" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">http://www.nhsf.org.uk/hum</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: large;">> </span><a href="http://64.4.10.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=1c34399708dfe175cd07265af118eda0&lat=1075831074&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2enhsf%2eorg%2euk%2fhum" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Subscribe to HUM</span></a></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=2843&p=3&topicID=45590">http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=2843&p=3&topicID=45590</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-49794725243353755272011-03-20T04:33:00.001-07:002011-03-20T04:34:07.716-07:00Dewani defence rolls out artillery...<a href="http://m.iol.co.za/article/view/s/11/a/40002">http://m.iol.co.za/article/view/s/11/a/40002</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-39354940598224905762011-03-20T04:06:00.001-07:002011-03-20T04:06:59.203-07:00<div itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="212" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; width: 475px;"><h1 class="articleHeading" itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="330">SOUTH AFRICA CARJACK MURDER: SHRIEN DEWANI DENIES LINK TO 2ND MURDER RIDDLE</h1><!-- MAIN IMAGE, IT'S CAPTION AND THE GALLERY BIT --><div itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="329" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 281px;"><div itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="332" style="background: url(http://images.dailystar-uk.co.uk/dynamic/1/281x351/167085_1.jpg) no-repeat; float: left; height: 351px; width: 281px;" title="Shrien Dewani is being investigated over links to a second killing"><img alt="DAILY STAR SUNDAY" itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="333" src="http://cdn.images.dailystar-uk.co.uk/img/sunday/sunday.gif" /> </div><div class="articleFirstImageCaption" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="331" style="float: left; width: 261px;">ABOVE: Shrien Dewani is being investigated over links to a second killing </div></div><div itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="328" style="overflow: hidden; positin: absolute; width: 175px;"><div class="left date" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="336" style="height: 20px; width: 177px;">12th December 2010 </div><div class="left" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="335" style="border-bottom: #000 1px solid; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 5px; width: 177px;"><h4 class="left author" itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="337" style="font-size: 12px;">By <span class="bold">Jonathan Corke</span></h4></div><div itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="334" style="float: right; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: justify; width: 177px;"><iframe allowtransparency="allowtransparency" frameborder="0" itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="338" scrolling="no" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.dailystar.co.uk%252Fnews%252Fview%252F167085%252FSouth-Africa-carjack-murder-Shrien-Dewani-denies-link-to-2nd-murder-riddle%252FSouth-Africa-carjack-murder-Shrien-Dewani-denies-link-to-2nd-murder-riddleSouth-Africa-carjack-murder-Shrien-Dewani-denies-link-to-2nd-murder-riddleSouth-Africa-carjack-murder-Shrien-Dewani-denies-link-to-2nd-murder-riddleSouth-Africa-carjack-murder-Shrien-Dewani-denies-link-to-2nd-murder-riddleSouth-Africa-carjack-murder-Shrien-Dewani-denies-link-to-2nd-murder-riddle&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=173&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=40" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; height: 40px; overflow: hidden; width: 173px;"></iframe></div></div><div class="introcopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="327">HONEYMOON murder suspect Shrien Dewani is being investigated over links to a second killing.</div><br itxtnodeid="326" /><style itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="325">
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</style><div id="bodycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="324"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="323">Police in South Africa probing wife Anni’s death are looking at a possible connection between Dewani and the murder of a doctor in the country.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="339"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="322"><br itxtnodeid="341" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="340"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="321">It follows claims from the taxi driver in Anni’s case that Dewani had confessed to arranging another murder in a fake hijacking in South Africa.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="342"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="320"><br itxtnodeid="344" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="343"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="319"><span itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="348" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.tripideas.co.uk/posts/view/5966/Win-a-luxury-cruise-for-two-" itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="349">WIN A LUXURY CRUISE FOR TWO WORTH £2,500!</a></span><br itxtnodeid="347" /><br itxtnodeid="346" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="345"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="318">Dr Pox Raghavjee, 60, was shot dead in the Eastern Cape in November 2007 on his way to work.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="350"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="317"><br itxtnodeid="352" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="351"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="316">Reports in South Africa claimed the doctor’s widow Heather drove to Cape Town to comfort Dewani after Anni was killed last month.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="353"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="315"><br itxtnodeid="355" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="354"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="314">National Commissioner General Bheki Cele said yesterday that a link was being investigated. </[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="356"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="313"><br itxtnodeid="358" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="357"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="312">Dewani’s spokesman Max Clifford, 67, said the link was “ridiculous”.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="359"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="311"><br itxtnodeid="361" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="360"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="310">He added: “Heather Raghavjee flew from King William’s Town in South Africa to Cape Town to try to comfort the family at the request of her daughter-in-law Alvita, who lives in the Bristol area and knew the Dewani family.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="362"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="309"><br itxtnodeid="364" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="363"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="308">“She had never met Shrien before in her life. But she experienced what he experienced when her husband, Dr Pox Raghavjee, was shot dead in a car-jacking three years earlier.”</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="366"> <br itxtnodeid="365" />Meanwhile, we can reveal that funds being raised in Anni’s name by Dewani’s family are going to a group linked with extremist violence. </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="307"><br itxtnodeid="368" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="367"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="306">Following a plea by his relatives, well-wishers have donated more than £9,000 in memory of Anni through a JustGiving fund-raising page.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="369"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="305"><br itxtnodeid="371" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="370"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="304">On the face of it, the cash is going to a Hindu welfare centre called the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKA) in Maharashta, west India.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="372"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="303"><br itxtnodeid="374" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="373"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="302">But we can reveal the organisation behind the centre has been mired in claims of paramilitary violence against other religions in India.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="375"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="301"><br itxtnodeid="377" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="376"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="300">One report into extremism in the country said: “Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram…has been responsible for considerable violence and hatred against Christian and Muslim groups, including during the Gujarat carnage in 2002.”</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="378"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="299"><br itxtnodeid="380" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="379"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="298">A website for the centre has links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) group, which has been accused of organising anti-Christian riots and branded a terror outfit. Last night no one from VKA or RSS was available to comment. <br itxtnodeid="382" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="381"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="297"><br itxtnodeid="384" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="383"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="296">Care homes boss Dewani, 30, who is suspected by police of conspiring to have wife Anni, 28, murdered during a fake hijacking of their taxi, was once general secretary of the National Hindu Students Forum UK.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="385"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="295">In 2004 he denied claims the organisation was radical.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="386"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="294"><br itxtnodeid="388" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="387"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="293">He said: “We are not extreme and refute any allegations – direct or indirect – that infer that we are.”</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="389"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="292"><br itxtnodeid="391" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="390"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="291">Yesterday the police said they were continuing the process of trying to get Dewani extradited to South Africa.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="392"> </div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="290"><br itxtnodeid="394" /></[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="393"></div><div class="storycopy" itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="289">On Friday he was granted bail, having spent two nights in a London jail. But he must wear a tag and live at his parents’ house after paying a £250,000 surety.</[ itxtharvested="1" itxtnodeid="395"> <!-- 1292100264.67--></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-88051329862473874642011-03-01T13:01:00.001-08:002011-03-01T13:01:28.302-08:00Annis mother and her broken heart....<a href="http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/03/01/mother-retraces-anni-s-footsteps">http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/03/01/mother-retraces-anni-s-footsteps</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-23032734647841868042011-02-25T06:53:00.001-08:002012-04-02T09:35:41.661-07:00Dewani cancel fund for Anni...??????<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://dewanisrchives.blogspot.com/2011/02/dewani-family-cancel-fund.html">http://dewanisrchives.blogspot.com/2011/02/dewani-family-cancel-fund.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-30375238822135258552011-02-25T06:49:00.001-08:002011-02-25T06:49:53.809-08:00DEWANI PR stunt cancelled. MAX CLIFFORD explanation needed !! Where is this money ????<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/8247194/School-in-memory-of-murdered-bride-Anni-Dewani-attacked-as-publicity-stunt.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/8247194/School-in-memory-of-murdered-bride-Anni-Dewani-attacked-as-publicity-stunt.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-77130744464721797672011-02-25T06:45:00.001-08:002011-02-25T06:45:50.725-08:00DEWANI family cancel fund ????????The charity fund setup in memory of murdered Anni, with £10,000+ donated by public, has been cancelled! <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising-page-cancelled/annidewani/" href="http://bit.ly/hZIvYW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising-page-cancelled/annidewani/"><span style="color: #2d76b9;">http://bit.ly/hZIvYW</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-68525202638782976372011-02-15T07:45:00.001-08:002011-02-15T07:45:08.559-08:00Anni Dewani private funeral<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-11806804">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-11806804</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-70964921307685844252011-01-23T04:01:00.001-08:002011-01-23T04:01:33.717-08:00Anni Dewani: Please sign the petition.<table class="ts"><tbody>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="padding-left: 8px;"><div><a class="l" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anni-Dewani-What-Really-Happened/146816412035927" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','5','AFQjCNGdJEy6QVXDAsdPgjWDrQbn35yDEg','','0CEkQoAQwBA')" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Anni Dewani - What Really ...</span></a> PETITION HAS REACHED OVER 2750 SIGNATURES Keep spreading the word please - twitter, facebook, email, text all your contacts, and get your contacts to pass <b>...</b> - <a class="fl" href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php%3Fid%3D146816412035927%26story_fbid%3D136855303045346&rct=j&sa=X&ei=jhc8TZGiIoKVOu6nlY4L&ved=0CEwQrwcwBA&q=anni+dewani&usg=AFQjCNFDGzOjhSj9n5rnUgtapHuUCEsKCQ"><span style="color: #551a8b;">More »</span></a></div><div style="padding-bottom: 1px;"><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41710.html&rct=j&sa=X&ei=jhc8TZGiIoKVOu6nlY4L&ved=0CEoQsAcwBA&q=anni+dewani&usg=AFQjCNEenxkr5ZI8DDT8bxVDXQbAlfJC3A"><span style="color: #2200c1;">Shrien Dewani must Stand Trial in South Africa Petition</span></a> - <cite class="f"><span style="color: #767676;">gopetition.com</span></cite></div><div><span class="a"><span style="color: #0e774a;">Facebook</span></span> - <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php%3Fid%3D146816412035927%26story_fbid%3D136855303045346&rct=j&sa=X&ei=jhc8TZGiIoKVOu6nlY4L&ved=0CEwQrwcwBA&q=anni+dewani&usg=AFQjCNFDGzOjhSj9n5rnUgtapHuUCEsKCQ" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="f rtdm"><div class="rtdelta" style="display: none;">5925</div>1 hour ago</span></a></div></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-53628609693224692172011-01-03T06:02:00.001-08:002011-01-03T06:02:43.368-08:00DEWANI: Dec 19th video PR Guru fighting in Shriens corner<a href="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7668073-the-honeymoon-murder-groom-his-pr-guru-and-a-very-public-fightback-video">http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7668073-the-honeymoon-murder-groom-his-pr-guru-and-a-very-public-fightback-video</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-26656730710295015842011-01-03T03:27:00.001-08:002011-01-03T03:28:32.592-08:00DEWANI and the tweet trickster..<a href="http://swns.com/prankster-sets-up-fake-twitter-page-for-honeymoon-murder-suspect-shrien-dewani-141332.html">http://swns.com/prankster-sets-up-fake-twitter-page-for-honeymoon-murder-suspect-shrien-dewani-141332.html</a><br />
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Honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani was targetted by an internet prankster yesterday – who posted sick jokes about his tragic wife Anni’s death on TWITTER.<br />
<img alt="Prankster sets up fake Twitter page for honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani" src="http://swns.com/images/stories/dewani/dewani1.jpg" /><br />
The trickster created a fake profile on the 140-character microblogging site with the user name ‘ShrienDewani’, which is illustrated with a photograph of the businessman.<br />
In a series of sarcastic tweets, the bogus ‘ShrienDewani’ covers topics such as his sexuality, paying for two return tickets when only needing one and Anni’s insurance payout.<br />
His profile description reads: ”I didn’t ever kill urm…whatsername? My wife…damnit. Nor did I pay anyone to do it. Also I like women. Just women. Love me some vagina. Oh yeah!”<br />
<img alt="Prankster sets up fake Twitter page for honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani" src="http://swns.com/images/stories/dewani/dewani3.jpg" /><br />
The first tweet posted on December 10 reads: ”I wasn’t caught paying the taxi driver for murder on CCTV. I was only giving him R10 000 cause I was used to taxi prices in London.”<br />
A reference is then made to claims Shrien is homosexual with: ”I wish when The Sun asked me why I took my wife to Cape Town if it wasn’t to have her killed, I hadn’t said, ”For the Gay Nightlife””.<br />
The prankster then uses the account to joke about deceased wife Anni, tweeting: ”I hope the insurance on my wife pays out soon. Last night I had to stay in and eat a can of beans. It’s no way for a billionaire to act.”<br />
<img alt="Prankster sets up fake Twitter page for honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani" src="http://swns.com/images/stories/dewani/dewani2.jpg" /><br />
It then goes on to add: ”My lawyer has advised that I go spend today in South East London, so if someone asks I can prove I like to hang out in dangerous places.”<br />
And in connection with alleged links with the 2007 murder of Dr Pox Raghavjee the pseudo ‘ShrienDewani’ tweets: ”Now police are after me for a murder in the Eastern Cape. Let it go! What’s next? Arresting me for those sweets I stole when I was 10?”<br />
The latest tweet, posted today reads: ”The worst thing about this whole ordeal is that I can’t catch a taxi anymore without the driver offering to kill someone for me. Hilarious.”<br />
At time of publication, ‘ShrienDewani’ had more than 200 followers and had made 15 tweets from December 10 to today.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-66021380199803431392011-01-02T09:00:00.001-08:002011-01-02T09:00:37.565-08:00DEWANI: the travel consultant...<a href="http://myeasyholiday.com/honeymoon-anni-dewani-was-killed-just-days-after-her-husbands-honeymoon-con/">http://myeasyholiday.com/honeymoon-anni-dewani-was-killed-just-days-after-her-husbands-honeymoon-con/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-54949842152501964122011-01-02T05:13:00.001-08:002011-01-02T05:18:29.776-08:00DETAILED CCTV footage<div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Strolling alongside the husband accused of plotting her death, Anni Dewani is pictured in CCTV images just an hour before she was murdered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The 28-year-old was filmed leaving a beachside restaurant with Shrien, 30, during their honeymoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In another shot, the couple are spotted walking with the man who later killed her, cabbie Zola Tongo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Shrien keeps his hand in his pockets and makes no physical contact with his new wife, who walks silently behind him with her head bowed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Around 30 minutes later, Anni was being taken on a terrifying car ride that would end with her death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">These pictures, taken at 10.24pm at a Cape Town sushi bar,</span></strong> emerged along with details of a second murder being linked to millionaire Dewani.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Police have also seized three sets of CCTV footage allegedly showing two separate meetings at the £300-a-night Cape Grace hotel between Tongo and Dewani and records of text messages between the two men, which were exchanged before the murder.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Shots taken after Anni died show the care home boss spent 10 minutes alone with Tongo.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">Cameras allegedly captured him at the back of the hotel as the cabbie’s car arrives at the front.</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Both men talk on their mobiles and Tongo walks in. As he goes in Dewani allegedly heads for the lobby with a plastic bag. Tongo follows.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Within minutes the husband emerges followed by Tongo who appears to have something under his shirt.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The taxi driver then enters the toilets in the lobby, where police suspect he may have counted the payment he claims to have received.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>There are also clips of him leaving with Tongo on the day of the murder. The pair re-appear 45 minutes later.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They are filmed driving off towards the bustling city centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tongo claims this was when he took Dewani to a black market foreign exchange dealer to change money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>He has told police it was on the way back the newlywed told him how he wanted the killing carried out.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Detectives said they are investigating care home boss Dewani over the death of Dr Pox Raghavjee, 60, in 2007.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tongo, who got 18 years for gunning down Anni, claimed Dewani told him he previously had a person murdered in the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dr Raghavjee was killed by a single shot during an apparent car jacking in King Williams Town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">His half-naked body was found slumped on a gravel road a few metres from his Mercedes by a policeman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>That murder remains unsolved and the motive unclear after Dr Raghavjee’s mobile phone, watch and cash were found at the scene</strong></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Family and friends of Briton Shrien Dewani on Sunday claimed he tried on several occasions to get in touch with South African police to get updates on the probe into his wife’s murder but its alleged each attempt was fruitless.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><country-region w:st="on"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Britain</span></country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;">’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Independent on Sunday</i> reported that his relatives have again denied claims he masterminded Anni’s murder last month in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Cape Town</place></city>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">The Dewani family has rubbished the version of events Zola Tongo, the taxi driver convicted for Anni’s murder, gave authorities in his plea bargain, saying Tongo could not be believed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br />
Relatives said he is a self-confessed criminal with nothing to lose, adding the businessman is being made a scapegoat by South African police who are anxious to defend their reputation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br />
<strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">They said Dewani had tried to stay in contact with police before he left <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">South Africa</place></country-region> in the days after his wife’s death but apparently investigators did not make any attempt to see him again.</span></strong><br />
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</ul><div class="article-date">by <a class="i-author" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/laurie-hanna/">Laurie Hanna</a>, Daily Mirror <a class="i-date" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/12/18/" title="Find all articles published on 18/12/2010 to the Top Stories section">18/12/2010</a> </div><div id="article-body"><div class="art-o art-align-left otm-59"><contentobject method="no_border_default" objectid="22770776" type="image"><img alt="Shrien Dewani 450 (Pic:PhilHarris)" border="0" height="350" src="http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/dec2010/3/7/image-19-for-dm-09-12-10-gallery-440948216.jpg" title="Shrien Dewani 450 (Pic:PhilHarris)" width="450" /></contentobject> </div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Detectives have quizzed staff at a seedy pawnshop where South African police believe Shrien Dewani changed £1,000 in cash on the day of his wife’s murder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Officers have quizzed staff at the Golden Touch jewellers and reckon the millionaire businessman handed over the money without showing any ID.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>They say they have CCTV footage two days later showing Shrien handing cash to taxi driver Zola Tongo, 31 – allegedly to pay the hitmen who killed his new wife Anni, 28, on their honeymoon. Dewani, 30, denies any involvement in the killing.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pawnshop staff have given police statements as well as CCTV footage of the day.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Owner Maria remembers Tongo bringing an English man in to exchange cash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But the amount was so large she had to take it elsewhere to change. The deal lasted no more than 10 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She said: “We have lots of taxi drivers, especially over the World Cup period. He came with Tongo, who chatted with my female staff while I changed the money. I don’t remember the Englishman’s face but I remember the amount. Maybe he was wearing sunglasses but I see so many faces in a day it’s impossible to remember them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“The girls all remember Tongo. I didn’t give a receipt. I gave him the top rate as a favour.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tongo was last week sentenced to 18 years in jail for murder, kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances and perverting the course of justice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Two other men – Xolile Mnguni, 23, and Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25 – face charges of murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dewani was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder Anni and is<strong> fighting extradition</strong> to South Africa from his home in Bristol after being granted bail for a £250,000 surety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The pawnshop in Cape Town he is said to have visited is close to official currency changers.</strong></span></div></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yesterday it was busy with local punters being buzzed in through in a metal security gate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Asked why a millionaire tourist would come to her, Maria, in her 40s, said: “People have different reasons. Sometimes they don’t have ID with them.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The next highest amount she could remember recently changing was £193 from an Iranian couple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sitting behind a kiosk, she offered a steady stream of mainly young men, cash for jewellery on a no-questions-asked basis. She said Tongo had been a regular customer, bringing small change in foreign tips that she collects and then changes with official dealers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On the day of Anni’s murder, she said Tongo had asked to look at a bracelet but did not buy it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Before he and the English man left she remembers Tongo asked her for his commission but she told him he could only have 10 rand as she had given the “top rate”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The driver gave the money to one female worker while handing his phone number to another, she said. The two women were unwilling to talk to us yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last night the Dewanis’ spokesman Max Clifford said: “Shrien asked the taxi driver where was the best place to get the best rate and it was the taxi driver who took him there. It was his decision to go there and not Shrien’s.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A Dewani family source added: “Shrien was so in love with Anni, she was the woman of his dreams, he was smitten by her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Every day they would be calling each other until the early hours of the morning and again first thing when they woke up.</strong> <strong>We have phone records to prove this</strong>. He is absolutely devastated. He’s distraught.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“It was not arranged, there was no dowry or pre-nup, they just wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Shrien is being persecuted, not prosecuted. He is not a monkey, murderer or evil. He played no part in her murder.”</strong></span><br />
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<div class="floatRHS"><img alt="Questions: Vinod Hindocha, pictured here with daughter Anni Dewani, says she refused to sit next to her husband on their honeymoon flight" class="blkBorder" height="423" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/27/article-1333717-0C349920000005DC-824_306x423.jpg" width="306" /> <br />
<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: large;">Questions: Vinod Hindocha, pictured here with daughter Anni Dewani, says she refused to sit next to her husband on their honeymoon flight</span><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: large;">The British tourist murdered in South Africa burst into tears and refused to sit next to her husband as they flew off on their honeymoon, her father claimed last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anni Dewani, 28, was shot dead when she and her new husband Shrien were hijacked by robbers as their taxi drove through a notorious township in Cape Town. Mr Dewani was released unharmed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday Anni’s father, Vinod Hindocha, added to the mystery surrounding the case when he telephoned The Mail on Sunday and said: ‘We have heard that the air hostess noticed they were sitting separately and Anni was crying. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">The air hostess apparently asked Anni if she would like to sit with Shrien, but Anni said no.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is not clear where this information originated from, or indeed how it was passed to Anni’s family. Pressed to elaborate, Mr Hindocha said: ‘We are not sure, it is something you will have to check out.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last night Mr Dewani’s British lawyer, Charlotte Harris, denied there was any hostility between the couple<strong>. <span style="background-color: yellow;">However her statement did not refute the allegation that Anni had been crying. </span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She said: ‘Any suggestion that there was hostility between the couple on the aeroplane or at any other point during the honeymoon is completely false.’ She added: ‘The Dewani family are upset about the Press intrusion into their grief at this very difficult time.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier, speaking from his home in Mariestad, Sweden,<span style="background-color: yellow;"><strong> Mr Hindocha, 61, expressed disappointment that Mr Dewani, 31, had failed to return to Cape Town to try to identify the hijackers. A South African newspaper has claimed detectives want him to return to South Africa for questioning. </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Taxi driver Zola Tongo, 31, and two local men have been charged with murder and robbery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr Dewani has strenuously denied any involvement in the death of his wife. Max Clifford, the public relations adviser hired by Mr Dewani, said his client was not a formal suspect and would not be travelling back to Cape Town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He said Mr Dewani was ‘under sedation’ after the shock of what he had been through.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Yesterday Mr Hindocha described how the murder had damaged his relationship with Mr Dewani. He said: ‘If Anni was alive today then our relationship would have been strong like father and son, but with Anni dead that bond isn’t there. I think he should go back to South Africa and point out the culprits.’</strong></span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: large;">Witness: An air hostess has apparently claimed that Anni Dewani burst into tears on the flight with her husband</span><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Hindocha said he flew to Cape Town to join Mr Dewani and his father, Prakash, hours after learning his daughter had been killed. <strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">‘Shrien came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, “I couldn’t take care of your daughter as I promised.”</span></strong></span><br />
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<div class="clear"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">‘He then described how they had been kidnapped, robbed, and how, after he had been thrown out of the window, Anni was killed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"><strong>‘<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">But later they were doing everything without me. Shrien was doing all the paperwork in a different room. I didn’t know who he was talking to, what he was doing or where he was going. I was shocked that they weren’t telling me what was happening.’</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr Hindocha, an electrical engineer, said neither the South African police nor British or Swedish embassies had contacted him in the 10 days since he left Cape Town. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>He also revealed that Mr Dewani had told his daughter before the wedding that he had been engaged before but did not say why it was broken off.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>He said the marriage between Anni and Mr Dewani was not arranged and her family had not paid a dowry to the Dewani family during the lavish wedding held in Mumbai in September, which is understood to have cost in the region of £200,000.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Mr Hindocha said: ‘We are part of the Lohana caste and dowries do not exist in our culture. If I want to give him something it is up to me.’ </strong></span><br />
<div class="artSplitter"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="Together: Shrien Dewani, pictured with Anni, has strictly denied any involvement in her murder" class="blkBorder" height="609" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/27/article-1333717-0C42E920000005DC-771_634x609.jpg" width="634" /></span> <br />
<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: large;">Together: Shrien Dewani, pictured with Anni, has strictly denied any involvement in her murder</span><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: large;">He added: ‘Anni and Shrien were introduced by relatives in England about 14 months ago but my daughter had to make up her own mind. I never spoke to Shrien’s family before the engagement – my daughter did not want us to meet the parents until she was sure. I did know Shrien was well educated.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr Dewani is based in Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol where he runs a chain of care homes. The couple had planned to settle in the West Country. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong>Mr Hindocha described the moment his family heard the taxi carrying Anni had been hijacked. He said he spoke to his daughter on the phone just a couple of hours before the attack and she had assured him she was having a ‘lovely time’.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;">Comment: Shrien had suggested they ring their families before leaving on the fateful night...</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But later he received another phone call, from Prakash Dewani. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">‘Anni’s father-in-law rang around midnight and said,<strong> “Your daughter is kidnapped but Shrien is fine.” </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At that moment my wife knew. She cried and said, “She is not alive, I feel it.” Shrien’s brother, Preyen, rang and said he had arranged tickets for a plane from Gothenburg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">‘I arrived in Amsterdam, where I was to catch my connecting flight to Cape Town and I switched my phone on and called home, hoping to hear what had happened to Anni. Before I could say anything they were crying and I knew she was dead.’</span><br />
<h2><span style="font-size: x-small;">THIS GUY SAID: 'EXCUSE ME. MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN HIJACKED'</span></h2><div style="font-weight: bold;">From MIKE Behr In Cape Town</div><br />
<div class="floatRHS"><img alt="First witness: Simbonile Matokazi found Shrien Dewani after the robbery and subsequent murder of the latter's wife" class="blkBorder" height="470" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/27/article-1333717-0C43021B000005DC-224_306x470.jpg" width="306" /> <br />
<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: large;">First witness: Simbonile Matokazi found Shrien Dewani after the robbery and subsequent murder of the latter's wife</span></div><div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A witness who encountered Shrien Dewani minutes after he was dumped by his wife’s killers has cast new light on the millionaire businessman’s account of what happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Simbonile Matokazi, 33, a local government auditor, says the businessman did not appear to have been thrown from the car on to sand, as Mr Dewani initially claimed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Neither does Mr Matokazi’s testimony support the 30-year-old’s later assertion that he was dragged ‘struggling and screaming’ out of the passenger window. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">He said Mr Dewani ‘had a suit on and a nice shirt underneath’ and looked neither ruffled nor bruised. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘We just saw a decent guy,’ he added. Mr Matokazi’s observations were endorsed by a police source closely involved in the investigation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘The officer who reached him [Mr Dewani] said that it didn’t look like he was hurt,’ said the source. ‘He saw no injuries or anything. And there was no sand on his clothes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘It didn’t look like Mr Dewani had been in a struggle. He still looked smart, like he was coming out of a restaurant.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">After dropping off some friends at the airport, Mr Matokazi – who was with his wife – was about to park his car when he saw Mr Dewani staggering between some roadside shacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘He said to me, “Excuse me, is there a nearby police station where I can report a hijack because my wife and I were hijacked”, ’ said Mr Matokazi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘I said, “Where is the car now?” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I asked a few questions about how long he had been out of the car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘I asked him what kind of car they were driving and he didn’t know. He said he thought it was a VW car. He was almost crying. In fact, he was crying.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Mr Matokazi said he then called the police. ‘The guy was walking up and down, panicking and in shock. My wife was worried that the hijackers would rape his wife but I told her not to say that loud because it would upset him more.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">While they waited for the police, Mr Dewani claimed that he had been ‘kicked’ out of the car on to sand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Asked if he appeared to have been dragged out of the car, Mr Matokazi said: ‘Honestly, no, there was nothing like that.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But Mr Matokazi insisted that Mr Dewani seemed believable: ‘I even said if he was an actor then he must have been a good actor. Everything looked genuine that night.’</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When the police arrived, they asked Mr Dewani for the registration number of the taxi and he said he could get it by ringing his family in London.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The police source said: ‘He tried to phone his family from the officer’s phone but he could only make local calls.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘So Mr Dewani said we must take him straight to the hotel. It seems as if maybe the family hired the car for Mr Dewani.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘Every time the officer tried to ask him questions, Mr Dewani started crying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">‘The officer would wait for Mr Dewani to calm down and then ask him again, but he just cried.’</span><br />
<h2>HUSBAND'S PREVIOUS FIANCEE WAS DAUGHTER OF INDIAN AIRLINE TYCOON</h2><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">By ABUL TAHER</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shrien Dewani was previously engaged to the daughter of a tycoon who founded the Indian budget airline SpiceJet.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In February 2009 Mr Dewani suddenly cancelled plans for the wedding, despite protests from his fiancee, Rani Kansagra, and her family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was around this time that he began dating Anni after meeting her through a relative in London. They married in a lavish ceremony in Mumbai a few weeks ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Miss Kansagra, 26, lives with her family in Northwood, Middlesex. Her father is multi-millionaire businessman Bhupendra Kansagra – who met Barack Obama when the US President visited India last month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last night Mr Kansagra refused to comment on the engagement between his daughter and Mr Dewani. He said: ‘I don’t want to get involved in this, I am not interested.’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Miss Kansagra also refused to comment but a friend of the family said: ‘Shrien suddenly broke off the whole thing and she begged him not to. Her dad also intervened, but it was of no use. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">‘Now they think it was good, as her family did not like him much. He was a bit too showy and bit too full of himself. They are still angry at him for breaking off the engagement, but they are also relieved.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The friend added: ‘Shrien was money-orientated, that’s for sure.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Bhupendra Kansagra was one of the founding chief executives of SpiceJet, India’s second-biggest budget airline, with a fleet of 22 aircraft and 66 more on order.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the airline was established in 2005, Mr Kansagra and his brother Suresh had a 13 per cent share in the company, which they sold in 2008. It is believed SpiceJet has a current market value of £160 million. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr Kansagra is now involved in the agriculture, oil and gas industries, and his companies operate in Britain, India and five Africa countries, including Kenya, which he left to move to Britain.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Last night Mr Dewani’s lawyer, Charlotte Harris, said: ‘Rani and Shrien met in August 2008. They got engaged in December 2008. They mutually decided not to get married in February 2009. Having spoken to the family, the relationship with his ex-fiancee did not end acrimoniously.’</span><br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333717/Anni-Dewani-tears-honeymoon-flight-shot-dead-says-father.html#ixzz19LtSBnt9" style="color: #003399;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333717/Anni-Dewani-tears-honeymoon-flight-shot-dead-says-father.html#ixzz19LtSBnt9</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-58321361317027826302010-12-27T08:34:00.000-08:002010-12-27T08:35:34.109-08:00DEWANI: 22nd November 21st Nov. Anni's funeral<div class="clear-left"><div class="padding-top-10 padding-bottom-10 clear-left"><div class="float-left"><div class="display-byline"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Published: 22 Nov 2010</span></div></div></div><div class="clear-left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div></div><div class="clear-left padding-bottom-7"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div id="bodyText"><h2 class="padding-bottom-7" style="font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.05em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">MURDERED honeymoon hijack victim Anni Dewani's funeral was held yesterday - amid fears her husband could be targeted by her killers.</span></h2><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">British care home tycoon Shrien Dewani, 30, is to fly back to Cape Town this week to help identify two men being held for beauty Anni's murder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But he will be under armed guard as cops there fear he could be targeted in a bid to stop him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The driver of the couple's hijacked taxi is already in hiding, after fearing he would be killed because he too had seen the gunmen's faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">News that Shrien, from Bristol, is to return to Cape Town came as detectives promised "an explosive revelation" in the case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A police source said yesterday: "The new information will show this was not a random hijacking." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tragic Anni, 28, was killed after carjackers seized the cab she and Shrien, who married two weeks before, were travelling in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Shrien and the driver escaped unharmed but the Swedish-born bride was found shot dead in the vehicle the next day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She was laid to rest after a Hindu "prathna" prayer vigil in Stanmore, North London.</span><br />
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<div class="BodyP1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A third man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the murder of a honeymooning British tourist in Gugulethu, Western Cape police said.</span></div><div class="BodyP1"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The 30-year-old man would appear in the Wynberg Regional Court on Monday on charges of hijacking and murder, said spokesperson Captain Frederick van Wyk.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hotel employees saught</span></strong></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The <em>Weekend Argus </em>on Saturday reported that police were looking for two more people believed to work for two top Cape Town hotels.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Van Wyk would not comment on this.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The newspaper also reported that a "well-placed police source" — who was not named — said "an explosive revelation" would be made soon.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Britain's The Sun newspaper on Friday reported that Shrien Dewani, the woman's husband, who owned a British healthcare company with his father and brother, was UK6.25-million (about R70-million) in debt.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anni Dewani (28) and Shrien (31) were married for two weeks when they were attacked by two armed men who hijacked their shuttle service vehicle last Saturday.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They arrived in the country on Thursday and were in Cape Town for their honeymoon.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The couple was apparently returning from a dinner in Somerset West when they were attacked.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hijackers drove off with couple</span></strong></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Two armed men allegedly forced the driver out of the shuttle vehicle and drove off with the couple.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Around midnight they dropped off the husband in the Harare area of the Khayelitsha informal settlement.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He was assisted by passing motorists who took him to the Harare police station unharmed.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A search for the hijacked vehicle — a Volkswagen Sharan — led to it being found in Lingelethu West.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The kidnapped wife's body was found on the back seat of the vehicle.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Two already arrested</span></strong></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Two 26-year-old men were arrested earlier in the week in connection with the murder.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of the two, Xolile Mngeni appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court on Friday on murder charges.</span></div><div class="BodyP"><br />
</div><div class="BodyP"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The other man is expected to appear in court on Monday.</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719647869194550311.post-20873140516068676712010-12-27T08:23:00.000-08:002010-12-27T08:24:26.639-08:00DEWANI: 19th November..organising Anni's funeral<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://phdpro.blogspot.com/2010/11/honeymoon-horror-husband-shrien-dewanis.html">Honeymoon horror husband Shrien Dewani’s firm ‘owes £6m’ | The Sun |News</a> </h3><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Honeymoon horror husband Shrien Dewani’s firm ‘owes £6m’ The Sun News: "THE firm run by a tycoon whose bride was killed in South Africa is £6.25million in debt.</span><br />
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Devastated Shrien Dewani, 30 - back in the UK to organise the funeral of tragic Anni - also faces a cash crisis with his PSP Healthcare company.<br />
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The care home chain he set up with his brother and father in 2005 owes £4million just in bank loans.<br />
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Figures for 2008 to 2009 reveal net losses doubled to £822,000 in a year.<br />
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This year's returns are overdue.<br />
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A second man was arrested yesterday over the murder of honeymoon beauty Anni.<br />
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Meanwhile Xolile Mngeni, 26, appeared in court having allegedly confessed.<br />
The couple's car was hijacked after they visited a township near Cape Town on Saturday.<br />
Shrien, of Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, was thrown out and Anni, 28, was shot dead.<br />
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Police chief Bheki Cele claimed the crime-ridden townships are no worse than Brixton, South London, yesterday.<br />
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PSP's auditors said: 'We have no cause for concern" <br />
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