Rent boy quizzed by police over claims that husband of honeymoon murder victim paid him for sex sessions
By Tom Kelly and Rebecca CamberLast updated at 12:57 AM on 16th December 2010
Fighting extradition: Shrien Dewani answering his bail at Southmead police station in Bristol last night
The 39-year-old prostitute contacted Scotland Yard to allege Shrien Dewani paid him £1,100 in cash to sleep with him three times.
The 16-stone German told officers the sessions took place between September 2009 and April this year in London and the West Midlands.
Dewani strongly denies the claims and said he had never had a homosexual relationship.
His spokesman, Max Clifford, labelled them as ‘ludicrous’ and said there were witnesses who could prove Dewani had not been with the rent boy on any of the occasions they were said to have been together.
Dewani is at his family home near Bristol on £250,000 bail as he fights extradition to South Africa over allegations that he arranged for two hitmen to kill his wife Anni in a staged carjacking a fortnight after the couple married.
Taxi driver Zola Tongo claims the 30-year-old British care home tycoon asked him to hire two assassins to carry out the hit as they drove through an impoverished township outside Cape Town last month.
But friends of Mr Dewani say the allegations are completely at odds with the man they know. The former grammar schoolboy is deeply religious and was general secretary of National Hindu Students Forum during his time at Manchester University.
His family have said he continued to assist the younger generation in maintaining their culture and religion after finishing his studies.
Mr Clifford said: ‘These latest allegations are the kind of rubbish that you get when someone is falsely accused of murder.
‘People think they can make a quick buck by seeing his name in the media and making up disgraceful lies about his lifestyle.’
'Go back': The father of murdered Anni Dewani has appealed to her husband Shrien to return to South Africa and face justice
Heart-breaking: Vinod Hindocha, second from left, in the High Court in Cape Town, South Africa, where he watched the trial of her killers
The source added: ‘We are leaving all the investigations to the South Africans.’
Dewani has denied he is gay and said he and his wife had discussed starting a family during their honeymoon.
He said he had been devoted to 28-year-old Mrs Dewani, who he proposed to with a £25,000 diamond ring last year after flying her to Paris in a private jet.
On bail: Shrien Dewani leaves Southmead Police Station, in Bristol, where he must report
Tongo was jailed for 18 years, reduced from 25 years, last week after a plea bargain in which he admitted his part in Mrs Dewani’s murder but alleged that her husband had instigated it.
The two alleged gunmen are due to stand trial in Cape Town in February.
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