COMMENT: The Daily Mail showing its true colours...as usual playing the race card with xenophobic overtures to inflame the people. The Mail did the exact same thing with the McCanns in Portugal...The Portuguese detective on the case called 'a fat boozing pig' by this very newspaper...their aim ...to protect the McCanns..The Daily Mail never thinks of the victim... sales are what matter here and not Anni receiving justice., Next we will be hearing by using a 'comment taken out of context' poor', poor Shreni cannot go back to South Africa, he will never receive a fair trial. I hope with all my heart Annis family stay strong and fight this all the way and do not let the British Goverment do what they did to Madeleine McCann, if history repeats itself Anni will never see justice. The alleged CCTV footage of Shreni seen giving money to the taxi driver days after Anni's death is intriguing.
Four days before death: Last picture shows smiling Dewanis enjoying their honeymoon
By Tom Kelly and Dan Newling
Last updated at 11:56 PM on 9th December 2010
- Claim businessman 'left envelope of cash in a taxi to pay for wife's murder'
- Anni Dewani's father speaks of pain of hearing details of daughter's death
- Sister of victim describes Shrien as 'caring' and 'protective' of bride
The South African honeymoon murder inquiry was embroiled in a race row last night after a top policeman branded the victim’s Asian millionaire husband a ‘monkey’.
The extraordinary twist came as national police commissioner General Bheki Cele claimed Shrien Dewani arranged the hit on his bride two weeks into their marriage.
He said: ‘A monkey came all the way from London to have his wife murdered here. Shrien thought we South Africans were stupid when he came all the way to kill his wife in our country. He lied to himself.’
Last picture together: The Dewanis pictured at a restaurant just four days before the killing
Race row: Police commissioner Bheki Cele (left) labelled accused businessman Shrien Dewani 'a monkey'
General Cele, who is black, is understood to have used ‘monkey’ to denote bad behaviour rather than as a deliberate racial slur. But there were claims his words will fuel tensions between black South Africans and the country’s large Asian community, which plays a key role in the nation’s economy.
A friend of Mr Dewani said the outburst showed there was ‘little hope’ the 30-year-old care home owner would get a fair trial in South Africa
He said: ‘What chance has Shrien got of justice when the chief of police is calling him a monkey?
‘This is the same officer who, only a few days ago, publicly declared Shrien was not a suspect.’
Mr Dewani, from Bristol, is fighting extradition to South Africa after being accused of paying two hitmen to kill his wife Anni while the couple toured a township near Cape Town in a taxi last month.
He hopes to be released on £250,000 bail at an appeal hearing at the High Court today, before his full extradition hearing is held next month.
Shrien Dewani's father, Prakash, leaves the court after hearing that his son has been remanded in custody as the South African authorities fight to extradite him
Anni Dewani's cousin leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court. Shrien Dewani has been accused of conspiring to murder his wife while on honeymoon near Cape Town in November
Her uncle, Ashok Hindocha, said: ‘Every day this case is not heard is torture. Just come to South Africa and let the court decide. The South African police have been very co-operative and professional and we have confidence in them.’
Mr Hindocha said that although he and Mrs Dewani’s father, Vinod Hindocha, had spoken to Mr Dewani since the murder they were too upset to listen to his account of what happened.
He said: ‘At the time, it was so shocking for us. He explained everything but I didn’t listen because we were all still very shaken.’
Newly-weds: Anni Dewani was shot dead in a car jacking in South Africa. Right, with new husband Shrien
‘Our sister was such a happy, caring, loving person. The most important thing is that the truth comes out.’
Mr Dewani’s lawyer, Clare Montgomery, told the extradition hearing that her client did not ‘consent’ to returning to South Africa.
Westminster magistrates heard allegations that he had arranged a similar hit on someone on a previous visit to the country, a claim vigorously denied by Mr Dewani.
It comes as a British couple yesterday told how they spent a day with the newlyweds on safari at the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, just four days before the murder.
Beauty therapist Angela Bartlett, who was with her husband Chris, said Mrs Dewani wore a diamond-encrusted Chanel necklace at dinner and appeared ‘well groomed’.
She said: ‘Anni was absolutely beautiful, very petite, the pictures of her don’t really do her justice. She was a stunning looking girl.
‘He was well spoken and well-heeled. I imagined he came from a very nice, good family.’
Allegations: Taxi driver Zola Tongo at the South African court yesterday
General Cele’s spokesman Nonkululeko Mbatha claimed: ‘He was aware from very early in the case of Shrien’s involvement, but was unable to say anything publicly until now. Mr Dewani must come back to South Africa to face justice here.’
Zola Tongo, the taxi driver Mr Dewani allegedly hired to organise his bride’s death, was this week jailed for 18 years, reduced from 25 years after he implicated the Briton in the murder.
Two other men, Xolile Mngeni, 23, and Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25, face charges of murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping. They are due to appear in court next year.
Vinod Hindocha Dewani, Anni's father, wept in the court as he clutched a photo of his murdered daughter
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