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A young bride, Anni Dewani, on her South African honeymoon, hours | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
before her death. Her wedding had been a lavish affair, her murder was | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
squalid and remains a mystery. This CCTV, never seen before, shows her | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
husband, Shrien Dewani, moments after learning his wife of just two | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
weeks had been killed. When we found out that Anni had been shot, | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
apparently I just started screaming hysterically. The same man that | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
South African police they paid hit man to execute his wife. We know | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
that he did partake in the killing of his wife. Anni's family are | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
that he did partake in the killing devastated and they are desperate | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
for Shrien to go back to South Africa and stand trial. He must give | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
us answers, go back to South Africa and tell us what happened. In July, | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
a British judge ruled that Shrien must go. But what evidence does | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
South Africa have that Shrien Dewani was behind the killing? Panorama has | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
obtained the police files and given them to leading forensics experts to | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
review. Their findings are damning. I would veer towards an accidental | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
discharge rather than a deliberate shooting. What the South Africans | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
have not done is carry out experiments to prove it. They have | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
made some guesses. This is not an investigation that would meet the | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
standards of this country. There is simply a cloud of suspicion hanging | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
over him rather than any evidence simply a cloud of suspicion hanging | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
that he was involved. It raises serious doubts about the integrity | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
of the South African criminal justice system, doubt is shared by | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
some insiders. It is like we have to nail somebody, so let's just go for | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
it. So is Shrien Dewani a cold-blooded killer or as he claims | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
an innocent man. I had just got married to the girl of my dreams so | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
why would I kill her? We are in Singolenathu Street, where | :02:29. | :02:50. | |
the victim was found in the car, abandoned. Anni Dewani had been shot | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
through the neck, left to bleed to death in the back of a hijacked | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
taxi. It was hours before she was found. | :03:02. | :03:13. | |
At an identity parade, two weeks after her death, three local men | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
behind the killing were picked out. All three have since been convicted. | :03:17. | :03:33. | |
But the South Africans believe that one man is missing from this | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
line-up. Anni's husband, Shrien Dewani. The case against Shrien? He | :03:38. | :03:47. | |
lands in Cape Town with Anni and a little more than an hour arranges | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
his wife's murder with a taxi driver. 30 hours later, Anni was | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
dead. The idea that Shrien organised the killing has generated huge | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
interest all over the world. It has not only dominated headlines in | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
South Africa... In fact South African police and prosecutors | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
seemed to have made up their minds already. This is purely a criminal | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
matter of somebody who murdered his wife when they should have been | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
celebrating a honeymoon. But is this case really so clear-cut? Please | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
enjoy your stay at the Cape Grace Hotel. Drawing a Panorama | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
investigation into the killing, broadcast last year, I discovered | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
significant cracks in the South African version of events. CCTV film | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
at their hotel, the Cape Grace, revealed a couple seemingly in a | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
loving relationship. In a way, this is the couple whose story has not | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
been told in the accounts of these events so far. Until our programme, | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
none of this CCTV had been shown in public before. | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
Since Panorama reveals these pictures, we have gained access to | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
our small and seen CCTV from the honeymooners' hotel. -- hours more. | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
It gives insight into key moments of the case. But to really test the | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
South African evidence against Shrien Dewani, you need to | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
investigate the docket, the South African police's secret file on the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
murder of Anni Dewani. Panorama has obtained it. The docket contains all | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
the prosecution's evidence, seen here for the first time. Video | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
confessions from the gunmen. Scenes of crime photographs, witness | :05:53. | :06:16. | |
statements, telephone and financial records. In fact, the entire South | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
African prosecution case, according to leaked documents that Panorama | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
has also seen. It is up to a judge to find Shrien Dewani guilty or | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
innocent, but do the South Africans have credible evidence that he was | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
behind Anni's killing? We put it to the test. The last fortnight of | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
Anni's life began with their wedding and it was spectacular, lasting | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
three days and costing upwards of £150,000. They had known each other | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
for 18 months and been engaged for five. But Anni's family say that the | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
smiles were asked. Things changed between the engagement and the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
wedding. There were problems within the relationship. He was | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
controlling. And I think that she did not really like that. Anni | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
herself revealed doubts as the wedding drew closer. The police | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
files contained text messages that she was sending to a relative. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Fighting a lot with Shrien. Wish I had never got engaged. | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
The volatile state of the relationship forms a key part of the | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
prosecution's case. The 28-year-old had said that she wanted a divorce | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
just days before the honeymoon. But the couple flew to South Africa as | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
planned, spending four days at the luxury Chitwa Chitwa safari lodge. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
While there, Anni texted again. Which sounds like a dramatic easing | :08:06. | :08:31. | |
of the tension between them on the eve of the next stage of their | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
honeymoon. The next day, Safari over, they flew | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
to Cape Town, and now begins the chain of events that will end | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Anni's life and see Shrien accused of organising her murder. We will | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
piece together that crucial 30 hours. As the couple left the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
domestic terminal, taxi driver Zola Tongo was among the crowd. 30 at the | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
time, he had just one conviction for driving without a taxi permit. We | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
have used an actor to read extracts from his full police statement. It | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
has never been heard in public before. At the time, I was chatting | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
to another taxi operator. Dewani approached us to ask where he could | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
find a taxi. Tongo is the star witness for the prosecution. Having | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
struck a plea bargain for a shorter sentence, he will testify that | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Shrien Dewani hired him to arrange the execution of Anni Dewani. | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
Tongo's taxi was cheap and he was eager to be of service. Shrien | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Dewani was impressed. He spoke good English. The car seemed to be | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
secure. Before his arrest in December 2010, Shrien Dewani spoke | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
to the Sun newspaper about his wife's death. He drove us around the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
sites that there were between the airport and the hotel and we became | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
quite jovial with him. It took Tongo about 25 minutes to drive the couple | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
to their hotel. The Cape Grace on Cape Town's waterfront. While Anni | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
went inside to check-in, Tongo says that Shrien Dewani, whom he had only | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
just met, remember, hung back and said he wanted somebody taken off | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
the scene. When he said that he wanted somebody to be killed, is | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
said to him that they do not associate myself with such things, | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
but I could call somebody in the township that could arrange it. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Shrien Dewani stepped out to meet Tongo again for just under nine | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
minutes. He maintains that he and Tongo simply discussed the couple's | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
tour plans. When he said that he was willing to pay 15,000 rand and could | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
pay it in dollars, he said that the willing to pay 15,000 rand and could | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
person who had to be killed was a woman and she was arriving later | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
that evening. If Anni was the target, why not simply identify her | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
immediately, especially if he wanted her dead the next night? What it | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
suggests is that he arrived in a foreign country with no | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
preplanning, no understanding of how to go about this, and yet he simply | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
asked the taxi driver that he has never met before and encounters | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
randomly to engage in a conspiracy to kill his wife. Professor Fraser | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
has reviewed the South African police files for us over three | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
months. One of the top forensics scientists in the country, he is | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
routinely called in by the Home Office to advise on high-profile | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
murder investigations like the Damilola Taylor murder case. This is | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
not an investigation that would meet the standards in this country. It is | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
not what would be considered good practice. There are many things that | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
fall a long way short of in effective investigation. After | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
leaving the couple at the hotel, Tongo drove to the Colosseum hotel, | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
20 minutes away from the Cape Grace. On the way, he rang the Colosseum. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
From the South African police files, we had this CCTV which show Monde | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
Mbolombo, the receptionist, and during the telephone. He is the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
middleman, the link between Tongo and the men who shot Anni. Without | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
him, the killing could never have happened, and yet Mbolombo has been | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
given complete immunity from prosecution if he tells the truth | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
about his role, but as we will discover, he is a liar. While Tongo | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
was on his way to meet the middleman, we now know from unseen | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Cape Grace CCTV obtained by Panorama that Shrien left Anni in their room | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
and walked out of the hotel. Over at the Colosseum, Tongo is pleased to | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
see the receptionist, Mbolombo. He puts his hands to his head, a local | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
sign of celebration, and they go outside. I informed him that I had | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
picked up a client from the airport and that he wanted somebody taken | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
off the scene and was willing to pay 15,000 rand. He said that he knew of | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
a guy in a township and offered to contact him. According to their | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
testimony, in less than two and a half minutes, this time killers | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
Tongo and Mbolombo agreed to organise the execution. -- first | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
time killers. A colleague is brushed aside when she asks what is going | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
on. Is this really the start of a plot, | :13:58. | :14:11. | |
as they claim, to have Anni killed? They are clearly up to something, | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
but is it murder? In the back office, Mbolombo gets the number up | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
on his telephone so that he can call an old friend, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, an | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
unemployed 25-year-old from Cape Town's townships. Again, an actor | :14:27. | :14:40. | |
reads his words. Like tong tong, Qwabe has struck a deal for a | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
reduced sentence and will give evidence against Anni Dewani. | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
He gave me his mobile phone number. He stated he want #ed 5,000 rand for | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
organising Qwabe. Monde, the receptionist, denies wanting | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
payment. There is a difference in getting money when somebody's been | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
killed. I call that blood money. So I was not expecting anything from | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
that. After Tongo leaves, Mbolombo seems | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
more than happy about what's gone on. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Does this look like a man who's just arranged a murder? | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
The midp man who has no previous convictions will also testify | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
against Anni Dewani in any trial. He still enjoys immunity from | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
prosecution and remains a free man. The prosecution have got to be very, | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
very careful with what witnesses they use because you are actually | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
dealing with people who're criminals and they are going to be there to | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
try and save their own bacon. Just about the time Tongo left the | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
Colosseum Hotel, new footage reveals Anni Dewani returning to the Cape | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
Grace. He'd been to a Bureau de Change, changing £800 into South | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
African rand and he'd been shopping for a Red Rose for his bride. | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
Five minutes after Shrien arrived back at their roam, Anni spoke to | :16:09. | :16:20. | |
her parents. It wasn't her voice. It wasn't normal Anni. I thought, | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
something's not OK. It was the last time they ever spoke. | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
Across town, taxi driver Zola Tongo now back home called the hijacker, | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
Qwab. Tongo told me there was somebody | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
wanting to want somebody kill and wanted me to do the job. I was with | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
my friend called Xolile Mngeni. Xolile Mngeni, the second gunman. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
He's the only one of those accused of killing Anni who's never | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
implicated Anni Dewani and has rejected a plea bargain. At his | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
trial last year, Mngeni was found guilty of being Anni's murderer, the | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
evidence of Qwabe the other glaun was key. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
-- gunman was key. Mngeni and indiscussed it in detail. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
He suggested we agree to do the job for 15,000 rand. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
The prosecution's case is that in two calls, one lasting 79 seconds | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
and one lasting 41, the taxi driver, Tongo, had hired Anni's killers. | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
As the plot formed around them, new CCTV shows Shrien and Anni heading | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
for the bar before going for a meal, a short walk from the hotel. | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
The waitress who served the couple remembers their evening at this | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
Sushi restaurant. Not I've served quite a few | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
honeymoon tables and they are normally very much in love and | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
kissing but it wasn't really the case here. The next time Clara-Jane | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
went to serve them, Shrien Dewani wasn't there. She says Anni told her | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
he'd gone to make a business call. A lot of people commented about this | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
man who was gone, leaving this lady on their honeymoon. | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
But new CCTV shows Shrien Dewani had left his phone at the hotel and went | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
back to get it. As he arrived at his room, we now know from phone | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
records, he discovered a text message from Tongo. Shrien then | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
called the taxi driver, they spoke for five minutes and 26 seconds. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
There's really no evidence that directly implicates Dewani in this | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
crime. But the evidence that is most convincing or suggestive is perhaps | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
the best word, is the frequency and timing of the phone calls. | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
So what did Anni Dewani and Tongo talk about? The couple's tour | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
itinerary, or Anni's murder? I phoned Dewani that I'd spoken to a | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
friend and he'd identified somebody who could do the job and he was | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
willing to do it for Sa,000. -- 15,000. The person who is crucial to | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
understanding Anni Dewani's engagement here is Anni Dewani hist. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
Only he can explain these suspicious calls. All the evidence here seems | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
to suggest his involvement. Anni Dewani has offered to be interviewed | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
by South African police here in the UK but so far, they've declined. | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Surely you must take up that offer, go and interview him and check up on | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
what he has to say, then make a decision. You've got then his | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
version of events. Is there sufficient evidence to carry on with | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
this trial? New CCTV shows the couple got back | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
to the hotel after 1 1. Given what he's accused of, a smiling Shrien | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
makes an unfortunate gesture. Shrien Dewani did not gain | :20:12. | :20:31. | |
financially from Anni's death. The South Africans believe there was a | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
different motive. Shrien's sexuality. | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
This is the German master, a male prostitute based in the Midlands, | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
real name Leopold Leisser, who's given a statement saying Shrien was | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
his client. The evidence for me is amongst the credible aspects of this | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
case and perhaps the only evidence that in some way provides clear | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
motivation for Shrien Dewani to be involved in this conspiracy. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
Leisser says he sees lots of married men. He's told of three sexual | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
encounter with Shrien, the last a month before Shrien and Anni got | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
engaged. He said that she was a nice, lovely | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
girl and that he liked her, but that he could not break out of it in any | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
way because he would be disowned by the family. He also said that he | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
needs to find a way out of it. So this does fill in the search for | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
motive? To be very clear about this, I think this provides sufficient | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
motivation. But motivation isn't evidence of itself. So we'd still be | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
looking for evidence of Shrien's direct involvement here. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
Whether or not Shrien Dewani is gay or bisexual, we can reveal medical | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
records from just days before the honeymoon show the couple were | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
actively trying for a baby. Another beautiful morning in Cape | :21:57. | :22:15. | |
Town. On this, the day Anni died, they both appeared carefree as they | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
headed down for a late breakfast. Tongo says he heard from Shrien. | :22:21. | :22:32. | |
He called me at 11. 30, asked me to pick him up at the hotel. But phone | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
records in the police doct -- docket show there was no call. We know this | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
is simply not true. It so -- so it worries you that one thing Tongo | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
says is not true. That worries you? A number of things that were | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
inconsequential wouldn't worry me, but there are really quite a few | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
things here which are plainly untrue. | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
Half an hour after the phantom phone call, Tongo arrived at the Cape | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Grace to pick up Shrien. He asked me to take him somewhere | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
with he could exchange dollars. Tongo took him to a black market | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
money exchange up the road from the Cape Grace. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
The golden tuech Jewellers. -- golden touch Jewellers. The | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
owner's told the police he exchanged exchange $15,000. If he exchanged US | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Dollars and if we add that to the pound sterling he'd already cashed | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
up on honeymoon, he would have had pound sterling he'd already cashed | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
21,500 rand, more than enough to pay for the killing. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
And yet the money trail could be a massive problem for South African | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
prosecutors. There's enormous questions around | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
the money. It's one of the holes in the case in terms of a credible | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
conspiracy. After Shrien picked up the 10,000 | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
rand, about £900, there's no proof it was ever handed over to the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
gunman. The money just seems to vanish. It | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
no longer seems to feature either in this physical carrying out of the | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
crime or the post-crime benefits. We know from the data roaming | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
records of Shrien Dewani's mobile phone that Tongo headed straight | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
back to the Cape Grace Hotel. During the ten minute journey, Tongo | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
claims Shrien told him how he wanted the hijack carried out. | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
Both he and I should be thrown out of the vehicle, in which time he was | :24:48. | :25:00. | |
robbing the client. This is an unfathomable thing of the case. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
There wasn't time between the men to plan anything tight and so much | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
apparently was left to chance. Dewani offered to pay me 5,000 rand | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
after the job and he confirmed he'd pay 15,000 in cash. Tongo's former | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
boss told us the taxi driver's monthly wages were two to three | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
times the 5,000 rand or £450 Anni Dewani was apparently offering him. | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
I'd pick him and the lady up from the Cape Grace Hotel at 7. 30 that | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
evening. After Tongo dropped Shrien off at the Cape Grace Hotel, he | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
picked up the middle man, Mbolombo, and gave him a lift to work at the | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
Colosseum's reception. I asked Tongo why he needed a hitman and he said | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
that there was a guy that wanted to have his wife murdered. | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
Is this really the first time Mbolombo has asked why Tongo needs a | :25:57. | :26:06. | |
hitman? Tongo's phone rings and he said this | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
is the guy on my phone and all he says is "yes, I'm on my way, I'm on | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
my way. " Then he pushes down the phone and says, "Eish, this guy does | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
not trust me". Yet the phone records in the police files reveal Anni | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
Dewani made no such call to Tongo. So, Mbolombo is lying. Anni Dewani | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
now had 10,000 rand, £900 in cash. So why might he have needed so much | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
now had 10,000 rand, £900 in cash. in it wasn't to pay Anni's killers? | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
We've learned that before he was a suspect, he told people he'd been | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
planning to surprise Anni. His plan - a romantic helicopter trip the | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
next day. There's this suggestion that it was | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
for a helicopter trip and it may well be that it was for a helicopter | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
trip, but of course, the police have not followed that process through. | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
CCTV from the police file revealed that, as Tongo drops Mbolombo off at | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
work, the 10,000 rand cost of a helicopter flight is all the staff | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
work, the 10,000 rand cost of a are talking about. | :27:12. | :27:29. | |
As Tongo and Mbolombo walk in, it becomes clear Mbolombo is central to | :27:29. | :27:43. | |
what's being discussed. Are the rich people the Dewanis? And | :27:43. | :28:04. | |
why does Mbolombo believe a man is cornered? Does this previously | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
unseen footage answer questions about why Anni Dewani changed up so | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
much cash? It's in the police files, but have they looked at it closely? | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
They never stopped and paused and thought about the fact that this | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
conspiracy may have linked back to someone else and they could have put | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
these things to Anni Dewani and asked him why he went and got that | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
money and crucially, where it is now. | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
After five minutes hanging around the Colosseum, Tongo left for the | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
Townships to meet the hijackers, Qwabe and Mngeni for the first time. | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
What was discussed was Tongo telling he wants the wife to be killed in | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
this way. The plan was for Qwabe and Mngeni to hijack the taxi in a | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
Township that night. Yet there's no evidence Tongo told | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
Anni Dewani. We know from phone records in the | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
prosecution file that not once after the gunmen met Zola Tongo did the | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
taxi driver ever call Shrien and tell him the plan to kill Anni was | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
in place for that night. Is it really credible that Shrien, a man | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
described by Anni, her family and his own family, as a control freak | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
and perfectionist, would have left so much to chance? | :29:27. | :29:35. | |
The night of Anni's death. Shortly after six, the newlyweds emerge from | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
their room and head for the hotel bar. | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
The couple pose for pictures. And kiss each other. | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
Repeatedly. Meanwhile over at the Colosseum | :29:47. | :30:02. | |
hotel, the fixer Mbolombo, who has only admitted to putting Tongo and | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
the gunmen in touch, is revealed by CCTV to be far more involved. | :30:07. | :30:18. | |
Telephone records show that he is talking to Tongo. We have enhanced | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
the sound for translators. What emerges raises serious questions | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
about the decision to grant him immunity. | :30:26. | :30:43. | |
Mbolombo seems to be in charge, so why is he still a free man? At the | :30:43. | :30:53. | |
Mbolombo seems to be in charge, so Cape Grace, 7:30pm came and went | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
with no sign of Tongo. Shrien Dewani Cape Grace, 7:30pm came and went | :30:56. | :31:03. | |
called him. The driver was delayed, so we just had another drink and | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
carried on chatting. But packed macro and his legal team give their | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
very different account. -- but Tongo. He called me in an agitated | :31:12. | :31:23. | |
state to find out where he -- where I was. He insisted that the act be | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
perpetrated that very day. This is CCTV of that phone call. | :31:26. | :31:38. | |
Shrien Dewani is holding the telephone to his left ear, Anni's | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
side. He shows no sign of agitation, and according to Tongo he | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
insists on the merger went Anni is sitting right beside him. Tongo | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
finally arrives half an hour late. If Shrien Dewani is expecting Anni | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
to be killed, he shows no sign of it. He seems happy to take | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
photographs of his wife. They look like lovebirds. Tongo confirms the | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
couple's relaxed mood continued like lovebirds. Tongo confirms the | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
his taxi. They both appeared to be happy. They laughed a lot. They | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
instructed me to first drive around town as he wanted to see what | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
instructed me to first drive around city looked like at night. So now he | :32:22. | :32:30. | |
embarks on what should be a pleasant social tour of the city on an | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
evening out, but apparently during the course of this his wife is going | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
to be killed. It almost beggars belief. It is simply not something | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
that most people would find credible. The hijack was supposed to | :32:44. | :32:50. | |
take place in Gugulethu township, shortly after Tongo picked the | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
couple up. But he says that when he drove by, the gunmen were not there. | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
The hijacker Qwabe said they had agreed to call it off, but records | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
in the police docket show that telephone calls between the | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
middleman, the gunmen and the taxi driver continued. | :33:08. | :33:33. | |
Moments later, as they arrived at a restaurant in the beach resort of | :33:33. | :33:41. | |
Strand, the taxi driver Tongo claims that Shrien Dewani became furious | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
that the murder had not yet happened. I walked with them to the | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
restaurant. At the entrance, the lady went in and Dewani turned round | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
and spoke to me. He appeared stressed and threatened me. If the | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
job was not done that evening, he said he would kill me. But this CCTV | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
covers the restaurant entrance and shows the three of them walking | :34:03. | :34:19. | |
towards the restaurant together. But it is not Anni who goes in first as | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
towards the restaurant together. But Tongo claims, it is Shrien. A waiter | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
has confirmed this to Panorama and there is no argument. There is a | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
damning statement made by one co-conspirator which could have been | :34:27. | :34:29. | |
tested to some degree by at least seeing if it was feasible on CCTV. | :34:29. | :34:39. | |
If the time on the CCTV is correct, telephone records in the police file | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
show that eight seconds after disappearing from view, Tongo calls | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
the middleman. So in just eight seconds, Shrien Dewani is supposed | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
to have threatened Tongo and demanded Anni's murder that night. | :34:52. | :34:59. | |
What we know from the CCTV is that this could not have happened, and | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
yet the South African police are either unaware of that or have | :35:03. | :35:09. | |
simply disregarded it. The hijacker Qwabe, who has agreed a | :35:09. | :35:16. | |
plea-bargain, it says that Tongo called him. He says that he is still | :35:16. | :35:22. | |
in Somerset. He called me and wanted to know if I had arranged for the | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
guys. Records show that Shrien Dewani did call Zola Tongo at | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
9:56pm. They spoke for 93 seconds. Shrien's account is more | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
straightforward. I then called for him to come and pick us up. We came | :35:38. | :35:43. | |
out of the restaurant and he was waiting. After driving away from the | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
server side, the taxi driver claims that he texted Shrien about the cash | :35:50. | :36:00. | |
from the hit men. -- Surfside. I told him not to forget the money by | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
text, and then he replied by text to say that the money was in an | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
envelope behind the front passenger seat. The records confirm that Tongo | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
did text Shrien but there is no record of what it said, or that | :36:13. | :36:22. | |
Shrien ever replied. It is just another example of evidence that | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
apparently incriminates Shrien Dewani from Tongo that has nothing | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
to back it up or appears to be completely untrue. If we had the | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
actual telephone calls themselves, or the text messages, it would | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
completely unlock this case, in my mind. But we understand that experts | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
cannot retrieve the actual text messages, so it seems that the South | :36:44. | :36:51. | |
Africans are relying on Tongo's word for what was said. The driver | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
suggested that we should drive through the township and we had no | :36:54. | :37:00. | |
reason to distrust him at all. Tongo drove them into the heart of | :37:00. | :37:09. | |
Gugulethu. And into the hands of one -- Qwabe and Mngeni. We were scared | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
and stunned. I grabbed Anni because she was starting to cry. I was | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
instructed to open the doors and then they drove off. I played along | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
because I knew we were not really being hijacked. Shrien Dewani says | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
that Anni did not want to give up the wedding and engagement rings. I | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
told her not to worry that we could buy new rings and that we should | :37:35. | :37:41. | |
just get out of here. Shrien Dewani handed over all the cash he had on | :37:41. | :37:48. | |
him, 4000 rand, £350. The films confession of one of the gunmen | :37:48. | :37:54. | |
confirms this, an account which was filmed before Shrien Dewani became a | :37:54. | :37:55. | |
suspect. -- filmed confession. Not long after the taxi was | :37:55. | :38:20. | |
hijacked, Zola Tongo got out here. Before Zola Tongo got out, he told | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
us that the money was behind the front passenger seat in a pouch. The | :38:25. | :38:32. | |
hijackers drove off into the darkness of Caer Lytchett township. | :38:32. | :38:40. | |
-- Khayelitsha township. The driver then said that they just wanted the | :38:40. | :38:44. | |
car and they would not hurt us but they would let us go separately. | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
Again Mngeni is the only one to confirm Shrien Dewani's account, and | :38:50. | :38:58. | |
the only one not to accept a plea bargain. Shrien Dewani and Mngeni | :38:58. | :39:05. | |
had no contact before or after, but their accounts tally. Around half an | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
hour after the car was hijacked, Shrien was ordered to get out. I was | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
holding on to Anni and wanted to go together. Again his account mirrors | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
Mngeni's. Why ask the gunmen to let them go | :39:21. | :39:35. | |
together if he wanted Anni dead? They held a gun to my head and said | :39:35. | :39:56. | |
I had to leave or they would shoot me. Shrien Dewani was now alone in a | :39:56. | :40:01. | |
township notorious for gun violence. The car just sped off and | :40:01. | :40:07. | |
my heart was racing. Luckily he stumbled into this man, local | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
Government auditor Simbonile Matokazi. He was pacing up and down | :40:12. | :40:19. | |
the road in panic. I thought that he was crying. He called his cousin, a | :40:19. | :40:27. | |
police officer. He says that Shrien became frantic that the police took | :40:27. | :40:34. | |
so long to arrive. When I found out that he was a suspect, I was a bit | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
surprised because I don't think this guy had killed his wife. | :40:38. | :40:48. | |
After a fruitless search for Anni, police took Shrien Dewani back to | :40:48. | :40:55. | |
the Cape Grace Hotel. He looks like a distraught man on previously | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
unseen CCTV, shuttling back and forth from a couple's room to police | :40:59. | :41:07. | |
who gathered in the hotel's internet room. The taxi driver Zola Tongo was | :41:07. | :41:14. | |
also at the hotel. I heard the policemen referring to the lady as | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
his wife, and it was the first time policemen referring to the lady as | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
that I realised that the lady that he wanted us to murder what his | :41:19. | :41:26. | |
wife. Sophie had no idea that Anni was Shrien's wife, even though he | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
had picked them up from the airport and driven them around for hours? -- | :41:30. | :41:38. | |
he had no idea. The police were convinced that she would be found | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
alive because they just wanted the car. Anni's last moments are | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
difficult even to imagine. She was killed not long after Shrien | :41:45. | :41:54. | |
had left the taxi. Qwabe says that She was killed not long after Shrien | :41:54. | :42:04. | |
he was driving and that Mngeni shot Anni. His recollection seems at odds | :42:04. | :42:13. | |
with this being a planned murder. He shot. Why was not expecting it. It | :42:13. | :42:24. | |
gave me quite a fright, you see. Mngeni claims that Qwabe took the | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
gun, and shot Anni in a struggle for her handbag from the passenger door. | :42:29. | :42:40. | |
The gunmen dumped the car here in Khayelitsha township, leaving Anni | :42:40. | :42:49. | |
lying across the back seats. They stole her handbag, the couple's | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
lying across the back seats. They mobile telephones, designer watches | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
and jewellery. Police valued the hall at £8,000, six times the price | :42:57. | :43:05. | |
of the alleged hit. Two of Anni's rings were recovered, one beneath | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
her body and £25,000 engagement ring hidden in the rear seat. If this was | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
murder made to look like robbery, why not take the rings? If it was | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
simply an execution, wouldn't the hit man have stayed to check that | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
she was dead? Crime scene video has allowed us to | :43:22. | :43:46. | |
recreate the position in which Anni's fully closed body was | :43:46. | :43:54. | |
discovered. -- fully clothed. A single shot passed through her left | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
hand before entering her neck, fatally damaging her spinal-cord and | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
severing major blood vessels. The South Africans claimed that the | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
forensic evidence proves that she was carrying against the back-seat | :44:08. | :44:14. | |
and that Mngeni took aim from the front passenger seat, claiming that | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
he deliberately shot her with the gun barrel five to ten centimetres | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
from her body, meaning her death was not an accident. We asked leading | :44:22. | :44:27. | |
forensic scientists to review all of the evidence in the police docket. | :44:27. | :44:33. | |
Would it stand up to scrutiny? Was she cowering back in her seat as the | :44:33. | :44:38. | |
South Africans claim? Was she in a defensive position when she was | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
shot? There is no pathological evidence to support that. Home | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
Office pathologist Doctor Shepherd takes a very different view to the | :44:48. | :44:56. | |
South Africans. There is no evidence of any blood spattered against the | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
seat around the site of recovery of the bullet. If she had been pushed | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
back against it, as the bullet exited her body, it would have | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
caused damage and splatter around that point and there is none. Though | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
she is leaning forward, or sitting forward on the edge of her seat. It | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
surprises me that the scene of crime people have not considered it. | :45:17. | :45:25. | |
If Anni was leaning forwards, can the South Africans be sure the gun | :45:25. | :45:35. | |
was held at a distance from her? The size and shape of the soot on the | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
back of her hand would indicate very close range, potentially less than 5 | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
cm. Until its closure last year, Mark Mastaglio was the leading | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
firearms expert at the Home Office Forensic Science Service. | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
If we talk your analysis of the facts, it makes it look more likely | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
that this gun went off in a struggle where it was right up against her. | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
Is that right? Yes, I think that's a fair statement. What the South | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
Africans have not done is to carry out any experiments to support the | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
conclusions. They've made some guesses. They were sloppy? I think | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
this is a major flaw in the legislate investigation. | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
What about the murder weapon? Could it have gone off accidentally? There | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
seems to have been no examination of the puss toll to determine whether | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
it had a propensity for accidental discharge. Could it go off in a | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
struggle for instance? There are standard tests you you carried out. | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
All we have is a statement stating that the gun was in working order. | :46:36. | :46:41. | |
If tests were not done to rule out accidental shooting, is the South | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
African view supported that it was a planned murder? If it was a | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
deliberate shot, I would have expected the shot in the head, maybe | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
over the heart, not one that struck the neck. It's an unusual place for | :46:54. | :46:59. | |
an assassination. So on that basis alone, and it's a | :46:59. | :47:05. | |
very weak bit of evidence, I would veer towards an accidental | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
discharge, rather than a deliberate shooting. | :47:08. | :47:15. | |
Last November, Xolile Mngeni was found guilty of being the man who | :47:15. | :47:25. | |
shot Anni. Despite his filmed confession, | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
Mngeni had pleaded not guilty and Despite his filmed confession, | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
denied being involved. He was jailed for life without parole. | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
But are the South Africans right to say the forensics prove Mngeni was | :47:37. | :47:43. | |
Anni's culler? Was the gunman in the front passenger seat? | :47:43. | :47:50. | |
If the conclusion is they think it's a certainty it was from the front | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
passenger seat, there are other likely options. Criticism can be | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
levelled because they haven't considered alternative positions. | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
Could the man Qwabe, given a plea bargain by the state, have been the | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
gunman? Anni is looking towards the drivers side of the car? Is she | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
looking out of the door? I don't know, but she's looking that way at | :48:12. | :48:13. | |
looking out of the door? I don't the time she's shot. | :48:13. | :48:19. | |
Did the South Africans miss opportunities to put the identity of | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
Anni's killer beyond doubt? It seems they failed to collect | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
properly or even to analyse all the forensic samples taken from the taxi | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
for traces of gunshot residue. Who had the gun, who fired the gun, | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
were they in the front seat, were they sitting in the back of the | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
vehicle? We don't know on the evidence we've seen. Pf | :48:42. | :48:48. | |
One of the UK's leading experts on gunshot residue, Angela Shaw, found | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
no evidence the hijack hijackers hands or clothes were tested, but | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
it's the lack of sampling in the taxi that concerns her most. | :48:56. | :49:02. | |
The samples they did analyse were taken from the rear seat and from | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
the inside of the door panels. This really does not provide enough | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
information to establish where the firearm might have been sitting in | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
the car. So you are saying when a gun is fired, clues go everywhere | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
and a lot of them weren't even looked at? In this instance, no, | :49:19. | :49:25. | |
there was a very limited approach. So you have got on the face of it, a | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
modern technological organisation that in fact, it's a policing system | :49:30. | :49:36. | |
that's content to use confessions and individual witness evidence | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
against others and all we know in this country is that we've had some | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
very big miscarriages from cases of this type. | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
When the gunmen abandoned the taxi, they say they fled into nearby scrub | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
land to split the takings. But they disagree on how much they got. | :49:55. | :50:04. | |
The driver, Qwabe, gave his version of the money trail last year in | :50:04. | :50:10. | |
return for his plea bargain. Mngeni took the money off me behind | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
the passenger seat. He found that it was 10,000 rand, not 15,000 rand. | :50:15. | :50:24. | |
But Mngeni makes no mention of the 10,000 rand. The only one of the | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
accused not the claim Anni Dewani was paying them says they shared | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
only the cash they stole from him at gun point. | :50:31. | :50:40. | |
And there's evidence to support that as Mngeni spent just under 2,000 | :50:40. | :50:47. | |
rand on trainers and clothes the day after Anni's killing. | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
So what happened to the missing 10,000? | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
It's not at all clear if this money was in the vehicle despite lots of | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
talk about it being in the cubby hole. The money just simply has | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
never been seen anywhere along the line. | :51:04. | :51:19. | |
New CCTV from Sunday morning shows Shrien talking the call telling him | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
Anni was dead. When we found out that Anni had been | :51:24. | :51:40. | |
shot, apparently I just started screaming hysterically and dropped | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
the phone. Police, a doctor and family friends | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
were with Shrien in the moments after he learnt his wife was gone. | :51:47. | :51:55. | |
I was just so hysterical when they told me. I just couldn't think | :51:55. | :52:00. | |
straight. The behavioural doctor gave me some | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
medication. The police wouldn't let me see her. | :52:04. | :52:17. | |
The cameras capture Shrien's shifting emotions in the hours after | :52:17. | :52:24. | |
Anni's death. Some ten hours afterwards, smiling on the phone to | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
a friend. Next day, his distress is visible as | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
he leaves for the mortuary to identify Anni's body. | :52:35. | :52:44. | |
Before leaving South Africa, Shrien Dewani had one final meeting with | :52:44. | :52:50. | |
Zola Tongo. Seen here in white, the driver was | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
still a witness, not a suspect. I met up with Dewani when I received | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
1,000 rand as payment for my role in orchestrating the murder. Holding a | :53:01. | :53:07. | |
white plastic bag, Shrien meets him in the lobby and they enter the | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
Internet room which has no cameras, although other guests are in there. | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
After just over a minute, Shrien although other guests are in there. | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
leaves minus the bag. Tongo ten seconds later leaves with the bag | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
under his shirt. He heads straight to the gent's. | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
The bag contained an envelope which contained 1,000 rand. I realised | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
that Dewani had not paid me the full 5,000 rand as he previously agreed. | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
Tongo left the hotel with the bag in clear view. He says he went looking | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
for Shrien having realised he'd been short changed but CCTV reveals that | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
to be untrue. I had no further contact with Dewani | :53:52. | :54:00. | |
after that. Another lie. Phone records and CCTV show Shrien called | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
him an hour and 40 minutes after giving him the bag. Top go's | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
testimony makes no mention of that 54 second call. That's the sixth | :54:10. | :54:16. | |
time the CCTV contradicts crucial evidence in his sworn statement. So | :54:16. | :54:23. | |
was Shrien Dewani short changing the man who'd organised Anni's murder | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
or, was the 1,000 rand, £90, simply payment for his services as a taxi | :54:28. | :54:36. | |
driver? Tongo was arrested a week after Anni's death. | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
The very next day, the taxi driver agreed a plea bargain with | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
prosecutors, a lesser sentence in return for evidence against Anni | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
Dewani. The speed surprised some senior | :54:50. | :54:53. | |
legal figures. It seemed to me that the prosecution | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
service was under some political pressure to get a result as soon as | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
possible. Even Tongo's jail sentence was | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
agreed that weekend. Seven years off a 25-year sentence. He could be out | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
in 2020. Anni's father had still to approve the deal. | :55:13. | :55:19. | |
The prosecutor asked me, Vinod, do you approve of this, and I said yes, | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
I want to know the truth, what happened to my Anni. | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
Just two weeks after Tongo's arrest, the South African High Court rubber | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
stamped it all. Sentence you to 18 years. | :55:33. | :55:42. | |
Shrien was now officially a suspect. Tongo's lawyer is satisfied South | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
Africa's NationalProsecuting Authority or NPA, acted properly. | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
The NPA must be satisfied that it's sending the right message and the | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
charge of course at the end has to endorse that it is in fact in the | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
interests of justice. Others are wary. | :56:02. | :56:10. | |
A sentence was imposed without ever seeking to check the voracity of the | :56:10. | :56:16. | |
allegations against the other conspirators. In South Africa, | :56:16. | :56:21. | |
things are not happening as they should. I don't believe the | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
prosecuting authorities are checking up on their evidence beforehand. | :56:26. | :56:29. | |
It's like, we've got to nail somebody, to let's just go for it. | :56:29. | :56:35. | |
But why apparently so little interest in establishing whether the | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
taxi driver and the hotel receptionist were telling the truth? | :56:39. | :56:44. | |
Could fears for South African tourism have played a part? | :56:44. | :56:51. | |
It's certainly a thought, a preferable outcome to have a finding | :56:51. | :56:57. | |
that this was a murder that was arranged between Tonga and a foreign | :56:57. | :57:04. | |
visitor, rather than evidence of rampant criminality in Cape Town. | :57:04. | :57:12. | |
We put all our findings to the South African authorities. They say it | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
would be improper to engage with Panorama on the merits of the case | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
as trial by media would violate Shrien Dewani's right to a fair | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
trial. I'd want to assure all our people in | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
trial. South Africa and around the world | :57:27. | :57:33. | |
that our justice system is fair and Mr Dewani will get a fair trial. | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
Anni Dewani remains suctioned under the Mental Health Act as he has been | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
since five months after Anni's death. In July, a British judge | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
ruled that while not yet fit to death. In July, a British judge | :57:43. | :57:45. | |
plead, he should return to South death. In July, a British judge | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
Africa where there are no juries to stand trial. | :57:49. | :57:52. | |
He's appealing. If convicted, he faces life | :57:52. | :57:56. | |
imprisonment. The key witnesses, three men, all involved in Anni's | :57:56. | :58:00. | |
killing, who've all done deals with the state. | :58:00. | :58:06. | |
If you were him, would you go anywhere near South Africa? I | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
wouldn't. Not given the quality of investigation as seen by the South | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
African police. Anni's family have publicly condemned this programme as | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
trial by TV. They want Shrien Dewani tried in the South African courts. | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
You must give us the answers, you must go to South Africa and tell us | :58:25. | :58:28. | |
what happened and why. Every single day is a nightmare for us. It's | :58:28. | :58:36. | |
torture. The CCTV shows Shrien Dewani leaving the room he shared | :58:36. | :58:42. | |
with Anni for the last time. Within weeks, he would be a public hate | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
figure, identified as the man who'd ordered his wife's murder on their | :58:46. | :58:50. | |
honeymoon. Clearly, there are questions for | :58:50. | :58:55. | |
Shrien Dewani to answer, but can justice be done, or has it already | :58:55. | :59:01. | |
been undone by incompetence, flawed evidence and lies? | :59:01. | :59:05. |