15/08/2014 BBC Points West

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A Bristol businessman accused of ordering the murder of his wife

while they were on honeymoon has been found fit to stand trial

Shrien Dewani has always denied having his new bride Ani killed,

He was extradited from Britain to South Africa in April and

It's been a long time coming but finally the trial of

Shrien Dewani will begin in just under two months' time.

He was first arrested a month after Ani's death in 2010.

She'd been shot in the neck in the taxi they'd hired in

But it took another three years for the 35`year`old to be extradited.

He was diagnosed as suffering severe depression and was hospitalised

Today at the Western Cape Court, a panel of three psychiatrists

ruled that he is no longer suffering from a mental illness,

The experts had been assessing him for a month at this psychiatric

In their report they looked at Shrien Dewani's mental state

They said a week after Ani's funeral he began suffering flashbacks

He also took an overdose of pain killers to help him sleep.

During the following three years, he became increasingly sensitive

to noise ` so much so that he had to go and live in a campervan.

Since travelling to South Africa the panel found

his mental state had improved and he was often affable and articulate.

He was also able to follow a demanding daily routine and hold

The panel were also impressed with what they described as his

The findings were given outside the court.

The court has made a finding that the accused, Mr Dewani, is fit

The issues around his mental health have been resolved.

Therefore the state is now in a position to proceed with this

I have appointed a legal team to take this further.

There will be a pre`trial hearing on the 9th of September.

A month later the trial itself will begin, on October 6th ` it's due to

Ani Dewani's whole family was in court today to hear the judgement.

They welcomed today's ruling as "a huge step in the right direction".

In other news, a 33`year`old man has died while helping set up a

The accident, which involved a fork`lift truck,

happened at Sallygrove Farm near Nailsworth yesterday lunchtime.

The Surround Festival has now been cancelled.

In a statement, organisers said they were working closely with

the authorities, and that all ticket holders would be refunded.

The owners of a recycling plant in Swindon which caught fire a

month ago have been told they have until tomorrow lunchtime to start

Thousands of tonnes of waste at Averies needs to be moved to

give fire`fighters space to get to the root of the fire and an

enforcement notice was served last night by the Environment Agency.

The operator has until tomorrow lunch time to remove the waste. If

they don't do that, Hills will come in. They are an alternative

registered operator in the area. They will plan that removal of the

waste with the Fire Brigade. A man

from Wiltshire has welcomed a new research project using psychedelic

drugs to treat mental illnesses. David De Saxxe from Marlborough was

given LSD by doctors in Now he's supporting a new trial

using mind altering drugs. Here's our

Health Correspondent Matthew Hill. David De Saxxe may have looked happy

in these photos, but deep So in 1968, after a series of failed

relationships, he sought private He believes his problems stemmed

from his childhood, He says he only realised this

through being prescribed LSD. My subconscious was saying to me,

you can't marry her, because you I thought I had to stand

in my father's shoes, in the sense that I was totally

responsible for her emotionally. Mr De Saxxe went to see a

psychiatrist called Dr Peter Dally. He was a leading figure

in his field. You are certainly looking different

to what you were looking Psychiatrists

like him had far more clinical freedom to use hallucinatory drugs

like LSD in an experimental way. When I had the more powerful toes

and it was a dose that the therapist told me that was

stronger that he he had ever given to anyone else, I think I needed

to be strapped down and he called But I wasn't getting violent

or anything like that. David thought

the treatment saved his life. But shortly after David's treatment

the use of mind altering drugs There were publicised reports

of people using it recreationally and governments in the US

particularly but also in the UK were concerned about this counterculture

population were developing Doctor Williams is now involved

in a new research project using A group of volunteers who are taking

psilocybin ` a drug derived from the active

ingredient of magic mushrooms. They have already demonstrated that

psilocybin switches off a part of the brain

which is normally overactive Now happily married, David De Saxxe

hopes the new trial will be Newsnight is starting on BBC Two.

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stations. Now the `` and your local BBC stations. Now the weather.

Saturday looks like a dry day, a little bit breezy in the afternoon.

Sunday, rain in the morning then bright and breezy in the afternoon.

We have had showers this afternoon which are dying away. Into tomorrow,

some hazy sunshine in the morning. Progressively, that cloud tends to

thicken and becomes more expensive in this distribution. There may be

light rain. It will effectively be a dry day if slightly breezy. The

brighter spells, temperatures getting up. For Sunday morning, a

lots more cloud which will bring outbreaks of rain. They were clear

way to bring a brighter afternoon. It will be cooler next week. Here is

the National look at the summary, as you can see

- it is largely dry, but definitely fresher.

Good evening. This weekend's forecast may be far from a summer

classic, with a strengthening breeze. At least it is not a

washout. For many, there'll be decent and dry spells to get out and

enjoy. Most are dry. We have a few heavy showers, drifting

south-eastwards. A few showers into the north-west of the UK. For the

vast majority it is a dry night, with lengthy clear spells. More

cloud later. Temperatures 11-13 Celsius. In the suburbs and the

countryside down to single digits. A cool start to Saturday morning.

Cloud from the north-west of Scotland, with outbreaks of rain,

will work southwards. Into the afternoon it will be across southern

Scotland and the far north of England. You can expect more cloud

over the rest of England and Wales. All in all, a decent day. Few

showers for many of you. In the sunshine it should feel warm. 18-23

Celsius is possible.