Shrien Dewani reports to Southmead police station in Bristol yesterday as part of his bail conditions. He is facing further accusations concerning the killing of his wife.
Hotel receptionist Monde Mbolombo claims he helped hire two gunmen to kill Anni Dewani in a staged carjacking near Cape Town at the request of her husband.In a further twist, Mbolombo is also suspected of linking Mr Dewani to a previous ‘execution style’ murder in South Africa three years ago.
Mr Dewani was flanked by a number of police officers as he attended the station
Detectives are investigating if the British businessman was involved in the 2007 murder of a respected doctor in the Eastern Cape, where Mbolombo comes from.The victim of that attack is believed to have previously met Mr Dewani’s father.
The dramatic developments came as CCTV footage emerged of the newlywed Dewanis in the two hours before the attack
Anni Dewani, pictured at home in Sweden died in a township in Cape Town, South Africa
The first image was taken at 9.33pm on November 13 as they arrived at a restaurant in Strand, a seaside resort 30 miles from Cape Town.
The couple are several feet apart, with Mr Dewani’s hands thrust into his pockets as he strides ahead of his wife.
They were caught on camera leaving the restaurant at 10.24pm.
Around 35 minutes later, Mrs Dewani, 28, was in the hands of her killers after two gunmen ambushed their taxi as they drove through a notorious township.
Her 30-year-old husband and taxi driver Zola Tongo, 31, were released unharmed before Mrs Dewani was murdered with a single gunshot wound.
Tongo has admitted his part in the murder as part of a plea bargain in which he claimed it was a fake hijacking instigated by Mr Dewani who wanted his wife dead.
He said he asked Mbolombo for help finding the gunmen because he knew people in the criminal underworld.
The hotel worker demanded £450 for organising the murder and said the alleged gunmen should be paid £1,000, it is claimed.
Tongo was jailed for 18 years, reduced from 25 years, after doing a deal with prosecutors.
Mbolombo will also be a key state witness in any trial of Mr Dewani, after giving police a statement that implicates the Briton.
South African officials are said have offered him a deal by which he would escape prosecution in return for ‘truthful testimony’.
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