Why shrien dewani killed wife

Mr Dewani's family describe the allegations as "totally ludicrous". Tongo is jailed for 18 years for his part in the killing. On 8 December Mr Dewani is arrested at the request of the South African authorities on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. The South African justice department says it will initiate full extradition proceedings when it receives further documentation from prosecutors. He says he will not consent to being extradited.

On 20 January , Mr Dewani's solicitor tells the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court that his client is suffering from an acute stress disorder , and extradition proceedings are adjourned. Just over a month later Belmarsh Magistrates' Court hears that Mr Dewani had taken a cocktail of 46 pills including diazepam, which was prescribed to counter anxiety and help him sleep.

The South African authorities argue that Mr Dewani should have his bail revoked. His psychiatrist, Dr Paul Dedman, rejects the idea that there had been a suicide attempt.

District Judge Howard Riddle decides he can remain on bail. A fortnight later, a three-day extradition hearing starts at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court. Hugo Keith QC, representing the South African authorities, says a witness told how Mr Dewani said he "needed a way out" of his marriage. The court also hears that Mr Dewani would not be mistreated in a South African prison.

Nearly four months later, a judge rules that Mr Dewani can be extradited to South Africa to stand trial over the murder of his wife Anni. However, the decision will have to be ratified by Home Secretary Theresa May.

Mrs Dewani's family hand a petition to the Home Office containing 11, signatures calling on the home secretary to grant the South African government's request to extradite Mr Dewani. On 13 December, a four-day appeal hearing takes place against the decision that Mr Dewani should be extradited to South Africa.

His lawyer says he is not faking mental illness in order to avoid extradition. The hearing is told that the jails where Mr Dewani would be held are the best in South Africa. It is decided a judgement will be delivered in the new year. More than three months later two High Court judges rule that it would be "unjust and oppressive" to order Mr Dewani's extradition , which is temporarily halted on the grounds of his mental health.

But the court says it is in the interests of justice that he should be extradited "as soon as he is fit" to be tried. He says the murder had been organised by Mr Dewani, and that taxi driver Zola Tongo and Xolile Mngeni had also taken part.

In September it is revealed that Mr Dewani is to apply to be treated on an open rehabilitation ward after an improvement in his mental health. Later, Westminster Magistrates' Court hears that moving Mr Dewani to an open rehabilitation ward may increase his "flight risk". He is found guilty of murder by a judge in Cape Town and is sentenced to sentenced to life in prison. A judge rules that he is an "evil person" who fired the shot that killed Mrs Dewani.

But did the conspiracy run deeper than that? Was Shrien Dewani framed by elements within the South African establishment? We are dealing with South Africa. This is not Sweden or the UK where you have a robust police and court system. Certain senior politicians are getting very worried about the tourism situation. In her ruling Traverso highlighted at least four occasions when Tongo accused Barkhuizen of misrepresenting what he had told the senior detective in interview.

She did not make any ruling has to how this misunderstanding might have occurred. Police pocket books were lost, a witness statement was taken unsigned, a legally binding affidavit was falsified. One key state witness admitting lying to a previous court hearing. He could now be charged with murder. Vinod Hindocha signed off on the deals granted to Tongo and Qwabe. In a confession read to the court in December , Tongo told prosecutors that he had been approached by Shrien who then offered him money to organise the killing to make it look like a carjacking.

The taxi driver said he then recruited Xolile Mngeni and a third man, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, to carry out the killing. But the year-old millionaire Bristol businessman had always claimed that he was innocent and was not found guilty. Mr Dewani, who revealed during the trial that he was bi-sexual and had slept with male prostitutes, was also said to have surfed gay porn on his laptop just days after his wife was murdered.

And now Tongo is being allowed out halfway in his sentence.