The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni? Panorama

A young bride, Anni Dewani, on her South African honeymoon, hours

before her death. Her wedding had been a lavish affair, her murder was

squalid and remains a mystery. This CCTV, never seen before, shows her

husband, Shrien Dewani, moments after learning his wife of just two

weeks had been killed. When we found out that Anni had been shot,

apparently I just started screaming hysterically. The same man that

South African police they paid hit man to execute his wife. We know

that he did partake in the killing of his wife. Anni's family are

that he did partake in the killing devastated and they are desperate

for Shrien to go back to South Africa and stand trial. He must give

us answers, go back to South Africa and tell us what happened. In July,

a British judge ruled that Shrien must go. But what evidence does

South Africa have that Shrien Dewani was behind the killing? Panorama has

obtained the police files and given them to leading forensics experts to

review. Their findings are damning. I would veer towards an accidental

discharge rather than a deliberate shooting. What the South Africans

have not done is carry out experiments to prove it. They have

made some guesses. This is not an investigation that would meet the

standards of this country. There is simply a cloud of suspicion hanging

over him rather than any evidence simply a cloud of suspicion hanging

that he was involved. It raises serious doubts about the integrity

of the South African criminal justice system, doubt is shared by

some insiders. It is like we have to nail somebody, so let's just go for

it. So is Shrien Dewani a cold-blooded killer or as he claims

an innocent man. I had just got married to the girl of my dreams so

why would I kill her? We are in Singolenathu Street, where

the victim was found in the car, abandoned. Anni Dewani had been shot

through the neck, left to bleed to death in the back of a hijacked

taxi. It was hours before she was found.

At an identity parade, two weeks after her death, three local men

behind the killing were picked out. All three have since been convicted.

But the South Africans believe that one man is missing from this

line-up. Anni's husband, Shrien Dewani. The case against Shrien? He

lands in Cape Town with Anni and a little more than an hour arranges

his wife's murder with a taxi driver. 30 hours later, Anni was

dead. The idea that Shrien organised the killing has generated huge

interest all over the world. It has not only dominated headlines in

South Africa... In fact South African police and prosecutors

seemed to have made up their minds already. This is purely a criminal

matter of somebody who murdered his wife when they should have been

celebrating a honeymoon. But is this case really so clear-cut? Please

enjoy your stay at the Cape Grace Hotel. Drawing a Panorama

investigation into the killing, broadcast last year, I discovered

significant cracks in the South African version of events. CCTV film

at their hotel, the Cape Grace, revealed a couple seemingly in a

loving relationship. In a way, this is the couple whose story has not

been told in the accounts of these events so far. Until our programme,

none of this CCTV had been shown in public before.

Since Panorama reveals these pictures, we have gained access to

our small and seen CCTV from the honeymooners' hotel. -- hours more.

It gives insight into key moments of the case. But to really test the

South African evidence against Shrien Dewani, you need to

investigate the docket, the South African police's secret file on the

murder of Anni Dewani. Panorama has obtained it. The docket contains all

the prosecution's evidence, seen here for the first time. Video

confessions from the gunmen. Scenes of crime photographs, witness

statements, telephone and financial records. In fact, the entire South

African prosecution case, according to leaked documents that Panorama

has also seen. It is up to a judge to find Shrien Dewani guilty or

innocent, but do the South Africans have credible evidence that he was

behind Anni's killing? We put it to the test. The last fortnight of

Anni's life began with their wedding and it was spectacular, lasting

three days and costing upwards of £150,000. They had known each other

for 18 months and been engaged for five. But Anni's family say that the

smiles were asked. Things changed between the engagement and the

wedding. There were problems within the relationship. He was

controlling. And I think that she did not really like that. Anni

herself revealed doubts as the wedding drew closer. The police

files contained text messages that she was sending to a relative.

Fighting a lot with Shrien. Wish I had never got engaged.

The volatile state of the relationship forms a key part of the

prosecution's case. The 28-year-old had said that she wanted a divorce

just days before the honeymoon. But the couple flew to South Africa as

planned, spending four days at the luxury Chitwa Chitwa safari lodge.

While there, Anni texted again. Which sounds like a dramatic easing

of the tension between them on the eve of the next stage of their

honeymoon. The next day, Safari over, they flew

to Cape Town, and now begins the chain of events that will end

Anni's life and see Shrien accused of organising her murder. We will

piece together that crucial 30 hours. As the couple left the

domestic terminal, taxi driver Zola Tongo was among the crowd. 30 at the

time, he had just one conviction for driving without a taxi permit. We

have used an actor to read extracts from his full police statement. It

has never been heard in public before. At the time, I was chatting

to another taxi operator. Dewani approached us to ask where he could

find a taxi. Tongo is the star witness for the prosecution. Having

struck a plea bargain for a shorter sentence, he will testify that

Shrien Dewani hired him to arrange the execution of Anni Dewani.

Tongo's taxi was cheap and he was eager to be of service. Shrien

Dewani was impressed. He spoke good English. The car seemed to be

secure. Before his arrest in December 2010, Shrien Dewani spoke

to the Sun newspaper about his wife's death. He drove us around the

sites that there were between the airport and the hotel and we became

quite jovial with him. It took Tongo about 25 minutes to drive the couple

to their hotel. The Cape Grace on Cape Town's waterfront. While Anni

went inside to check-in, Tongo says that Shrien Dewani, whom he had only

just met, remember, hung back and said he wanted somebody taken off

the scene. When he said that he wanted somebody to be killed, is

said to him that they do not associate myself with such things,

but I could call somebody in the township that could arrange it.

Shrien Dewani stepped out to meet Tongo again for just under nine

minutes. He maintains that he and Tongo simply discussed the couple's

tour plans. When he said that he was willing to pay 15,000 rand and could

pay it in dollars, he said that the willing to pay 15,000 rand and could

person who had to be killed was a woman and she was arriving later

that evening. If Anni was the target, why not simply identify her

immediately, especially if he wanted her dead the next night? What it

suggests is that he arrived in a foreign country with no

preplanning, no understanding of how to go about this, and yet he simply

asked the taxi driver that he has never met before and encounters

randomly to engage in a conspiracy to kill his wife. Professor Fraser

has reviewed the South African police files for us over three

months. One of the top forensics scientists in the country, he is

routinely called in by the Home Office to advise on high-profile

murder investigations like the Damilola Taylor murder case. This is

not an investigation that would meet the standards in this country. It is

not what would be considered good practice. There are many things that

fall a long way short of in effective investigation. After

leaving the couple at the hotel, Tongo drove to the Colosseum hotel,

20 minutes away from the Cape Grace. On the way, he rang the Colosseum.

From the South African police files, we had this CCTV which show Monde

Mbolombo, the receptionist, and during the telephone. He is the

middleman, the link between Tongo and the men who shot Anni. Without

him, the killing could never have happened, and yet Mbolombo has been

given complete immunity from prosecution if he tells the truth

about his role, but as we will discover, he is a liar. While Tongo

was on his way to meet the middleman, we now know from unseen

Cape Grace CCTV obtained by Panorama that Shrien left Anni in their room

and walked out of the hotel. Over at the Colosseum, Tongo is pleased to

see the receptionist, Mbolombo. He puts his hands to his head, a local

sign of celebration, and they go outside. I informed him that I had

picked up a client from the airport and that he wanted somebody taken

off the scene and was willing to pay 15,000 rand. He said that he knew of

a guy in a township and offered to contact him. According to their

testimony, in less than two and a half minutes, this time killers

Tongo and Mbolombo agreed to organise the execution. -- first

time killers. A colleague is brushed aside when she asks what is going

on. Is this really the start of a plot,

as they claim, to have Anni killed? They are clearly up to something,

but is it murder? In the back office, Mbolombo gets the number up

on his telephone so that he can call an old friend, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, an

unemployed 25-year-old from Cape Town's townships. Again, an actor

reads his words. Like tong tong, Qwabe has struck a deal for a

reduced sentence and will give evidence against Anni Dewani.

He gave me his mobile phone number. He stated he want #ed 5,000 rand for

organising Qwabe. Monde, the receptionist, denies wanting

payment. There is a difference in getting money when somebody's been

killed. I call that blood money. So I was not expecting anything from

that. After Tongo leaves, Mbolombo seems

more than happy about what's gone on.

Does this look like a man who's just arranged a murder?

The midp man who has no previous convictions will also testify

against Anni Dewani in any trial. He still enjoys immunity from

prosecution and remains a free man. The prosecution have got to be very,

very careful with what witnesses they use because you are actually

dealing with people who're criminals and they are going to be there to

try and save their own bacon. Just about the time Tongo left the

Colosseum Hotel, new footage reveals Anni Dewani returning to the Cape

Grace. He'd been to a Bureau de Change, changing £800 into South

African rand and he'd been shopping for a Red Rose for his bride.

Five minutes after Shrien arrived back at their roam, Anni spoke to

her parents. It wasn't her voice. It wasn't normal Anni. I thought,

something's not OK. It was the last time they ever spoke.

Across town, taxi driver Zola Tongo now back home called the hijacker,

Qwab. Tongo told me there was somebody

wanting to want somebody kill and wanted me to do the job. I was with

my friend called Xolile Mngeni. Xolile Mngeni, the second gunman.

He's the only one of those accused of killing Anni who's never

implicated Anni Dewani and has rejected a plea bargain. At his

trial last year, Mngeni was found guilty of being Anni's murderer, the

evidence of Qwabe the other glaun was key.

-- gunman was key. Mngeni and indiscussed it in detail.

He suggested we agree to do the job for 15,000 rand.

The prosecution's case is that in two calls, one lasting 79 seconds

and one lasting 41, the taxi driver, Tongo, had hired Anni's killers.

As the plot formed around them, new CCTV shows Shrien and Anni heading

for the bar before going for a meal, a short walk from the hotel.

The waitress who served the couple remembers their evening at this

Sushi restaurant. Not I've served quite a few

honeymoon tables and they are normally very much in love and

kissing but it wasn't really the case here. The next time Clara-Jane

went to serve them, Shrien Dewani wasn't there. She says Anni told her

he'd gone to make a business call. A lot of people commented about this

man who was gone, leaving this lady on their honeymoon.

But new CCTV shows Shrien Dewani had left his phone at the hotel and went

back to get it. As he arrived at his room, we now know from phone

records, he discovered a text message from Tongo. Shrien then

called the taxi driver, they spoke for five minutes and 26 seconds.

There's really no evidence that directly implicates Dewani in this

crime. But the evidence that is most convincing or suggestive is perhaps

the best word, is the frequency and timing of the phone calls.

So what did Anni Dewani and Tongo talk about? The couple's tour

itinerary, or Anni's murder? I phoned Dewani that I'd spoken to a

friend and he'd identified somebody who could do the job and he was

willing to do it for Sa,000. -- 15,000. The person who is crucial to

understanding Anni Dewani's engagement here is Anni Dewani hist.

Only he can explain these suspicious calls. All the evidence here seems

to suggest his involvement. Anni Dewani has offered to be interviewed

by South African police here in the UK but so far, they've declined.

Surely you must take up that offer, go and interview him and check up on

what he has to say, then make a decision. You've got then his

version of events. Is there sufficient evidence to carry on with

this trial? New CCTV shows the couple got back

to the hotel after 1 1. Given what he's accused of, a smiling Shrien

makes an unfortunate gesture. Shrien Dewani did not gain

financially from Anni's death. The South Africans believe there was a

different motive. Shrien's sexuality.

This is the German master, a male prostitute based in the Midlands,

real name Leopold Leisser, who's given a statement saying Shrien was

his client. The evidence for me is amongst the credible aspects of this

case and perhaps the only evidence that in some way provides clear

motivation for Shrien Dewani to be involved in this conspiracy.

Leisser says he sees lots of married men. He's told of three sexual

encounter with Shrien, the last a month before Shrien and Anni got

engaged. He said that she was a nice, lovely

girl and that he liked her, but that he could not break out of it in any

way because he would be disowned by the family. He also said that he

needs to find a way out of it. So this does fill in the search for

motive? To be very clear about this, I think this provides sufficient

motivation. But motivation isn't evidence of itself. So we'd still be

looking for evidence of Shrien's direct involvement here.

Whether or not Shrien Dewani is gay or bisexual, we can reveal medical

records from just days before the honeymoon show the couple were

actively trying for a baby. Another beautiful morning in Cape

Town. On this, the day Anni died, they both appeared carefree as they

headed down for a late breakfast. Tongo says he heard from Shrien.

He called me at 11. 30, asked me to pick him up at the hotel. But phone

records in the police doct -- docket show there was no call. We know this

is simply not true. It so -- so it worries you that one thing Tongo

says is not true. That worries you? A number of things that were

inconsequential wouldn't worry me, but there are really quite a few

things here which are plainly untrue.

Half an hour after the phantom phone call, Tongo arrived at the Cape

Grace to pick up Shrien. He asked me to take him somewhere

with he could exchange dollars. Tongo took him to a black market

money exchange up the road from the Cape Grace.

The golden tuech Jewellers. -- golden touch Jewellers. The

owner's told the police he exchanged exchange $15,000. If he exchanged US

Dollars and if we add that to the pound sterling he'd already cashed

up on honeymoon, he would have had pound sterling he'd already cashed

21,500 rand, more than enough to pay for the killing.

And yet the money trail could be a massive problem for South African

prosecutors. There's enormous questions around

the money. It's one of the holes in the case in terms of a credible

conspiracy. After Shrien picked up the 10,000

rand, about £900, there's no proof it was ever handed over to the

gunman. The money just seems to vanish. It

no longer seems to feature either in this physical carrying out of the

crime or the post-crime benefits. We know from the data roaming

records of Shrien Dewani's mobile phone that Tongo headed straight

back to the Cape Grace Hotel. During the ten minute journey, Tongo

claims Shrien told him how he wanted the hijack carried out.

Both he and I should be thrown out of the vehicle, in which time he was

robbing the client. This is an unfathomable thing of the case.

There wasn't time between the men to plan anything tight and so much

apparently was left to chance. Dewani offered to pay me 5,000 rand

after the job and he confirmed he'd pay 15,000 in cash. Tongo's former

boss told us the taxi driver's monthly wages were two to three

times the 5,000 rand or £450 Anni Dewani was apparently offering him.

I'd pick him and the lady up from the Cape Grace Hotel at 7. 30 that

evening. After Tongo dropped Shrien off at the Cape Grace Hotel, he

picked up the middle man, Mbolombo, and gave him a lift to work at the

Colosseum's reception. I asked Tongo why he needed a hitman and he said

that there was a guy that wanted to have his wife murdered.

Is this really the first time Mbolombo has asked why Tongo needs a

hitman? Tongo's phone rings and he said this

is the guy on my phone and all he says is "yes, I'm on my way, I'm on

my way. " Then he pushes down the phone and says, "Eish, this guy does

not trust me". Yet the phone records in the police files reveal Anni

Dewani made no such call to Tongo. So, Mbolombo is lying. Anni Dewani

now had 10,000 rand, £900 in cash. So why might he have needed so much

now had 10,000 rand, £900 in cash. in it wasn't to pay Anni's killers?

We've learned that before he was a suspect, he told people he'd been

planning to surprise Anni. His plan - a romantic helicopter trip the

next day. There's this suggestion that it was

for a helicopter trip and it may well be that it was for a helicopter

trip, but of course, the police have not followed that process through.

CCTV from the police file revealed that, as Tongo drops Mbolombo off at

work, the 10,000 rand cost of a helicopter flight is all the staff

work, the 10,000 rand cost of a are talking about.

As Tongo and Mbolombo walk in, it becomes clear Mbolombo is central to

what's being discussed. Are the rich people the Dewanis? And

why does Mbolombo believe a man is cornered? Does this previously

unseen footage answer questions about why Anni Dewani changed up so

much cash? It's in the police files, but have they looked at it closely?

They never stopped and paused and thought about the fact that this

conspiracy may have linked back to someone else and they could have put

these things to Anni Dewani and asked him why he went and got that

money and crucially, where it is now.

After five minutes hanging around the Colosseum, Tongo left for the

Townships to meet the hijackers, Qwabe and Mngeni for the first time.

What was discussed was Tongo telling he wants the wife to be killed in

this way. The plan was for Qwabe and Mngeni to hijack the taxi in a

Township that night. Yet there's no evidence Tongo told

Anni Dewani. We know from phone records in the

prosecution file that not once after the gunmen met Zola Tongo did the

taxi driver ever call Shrien and tell him the plan to kill Anni was

in place for that night. Is it really credible that Shrien, a man

described by Anni, her family and his own family, as a control freak

and perfectionist, would have left so much to chance?

The night of Anni's death. Shortly after six, the newlyweds emerge from

their room and head for the hotel bar.

The couple pose for pictures. And kiss each other.

Repeatedly. Meanwhile over at the Colosseum

hotel, the fixer Mbolombo, who has only admitted to putting Tongo and

the gunmen in touch, is revealed by CCTV to be far more involved.

Telephone records show that he is talking to Tongo. We have enhanced

the sound for translators. What emerges raises serious questions

about the decision to grant him immunity.

Mbolombo seems to be in charge, so why is he still a free man? At the

Mbolombo seems to be in charge, so Cape Grace, 7:30pm came and went

with no sign of Tongo. Shrien Dewani Cape Grace, 7:30pm came and went

called him. The driver was delayed, so we just had another drink and

carried on chatting. But packed macro and his legal team give their

very different account. -- but Tongo. He called me in an agitated

state to find out where he -- where I was. He insisted that the act be

perpetrated that very day. This is CCTV of that phone call.

Shrien Dewani is holding the telephone to his left ear, Anni's

side. He shows no sign of agitation, and according to Tongo he

insists on the merger went Anni is sitting right beside him. Tongo

finally arrives half an hour late. If Shrien Dewani is expecting Anni

to be killed, he shows no sign of it. He seems happy to take

photographs of his wife. They look like lovebirds. Tongo confirms the

couple's relaxed mood continued like lovebirds. Tongo confirms the

his taxi. They both appeared to be happy. They laughed a lot. They

instructed me to first drive around town as he wanted to see what

instructed me to first drive around city looked like at night. So now he

embarks on what should be a pleasant social tour of the city on an

evening out, but apparently during the course of this his wife is going

to be killed. It almost beggars belief. It is simply not something

that most people would find credible. The hijack was supposed to

take place in Gugulethu township, shortly after Tongo picked the

couple up. But he says that when he drove by, the gunmen were not there.

The hijacker Qwabe said they had agreed to call it off, but records

in the police docket show that telephone calls between the

middleman, the gunmen and the taxi driver continued.

Moments later, as they arrived at a restaurant in the beach resort of

Strand, the taxi driver Tongo claims that Shrien Dewani became furious

that the murder had not yet happened. I walked with them to the

restaurant. At the entrance, the lady went in and Dewani turned round

and spoke to me. He appeared stressed and threatened me. If the

job was not done that evening, he said he would kill me. But this CCTV

covers the restaurant entrance and shows the three of them walking

towards the restaurant together. But it is not Anni who goes in first as

towards the restaurant together. But Tongo claims, it is Shrien. A waiter

has confirmed this to Panorama and there is no argument. There is a

damning statement made by one co-conspirator which could have been

tested to some degree by at least seeing if it was feasible on CCTV.

If the time on the CCTV is correct, telephone records in the police file

show that eight seconds after disappearing from view, Tongo calls

the middleman. So in just eight seconds, Shrien Dewani is supposed

to have threatened Tongo and demanded Anni's murder that night.

What we know from the CCTV is that this could not have happened, and

yet the South African police are either unaware of that or have

simply disregarded it. The hijacker Qwabe, who has agreed a

plea-bargain, it says that Tongo called him. He says that he is still

in Somerset. He called me and wanted to know if I had arranged for the

guys. Records show that Shrien Dewani did call Zola Tongo at

9:56pm. They spoke for 93 seconds. Shrien's account is more

straightforward. I then called for him to come and pick us up. We came

out of the restaurant and he was waiting. After driving away from the

server side, the taxi driver claims that he texted Shrien about the cash

from the hit men. -- Surfside. I told him not to forget the money by

text, and then he replied by text to say that the money was in an

envelope behind the front passenger seat. The records confirm that Tongo

did text Shrien but there is no record of what it said, or that

Shrien ever replied. It is just another example of evidence that

apparently incriminates Shrien Dewani from Tongo that has nothing

to back it up or appears to be completely untrue. If we had the

actual telephone calls themselves, or the text messages, it would

completely unlock this case, in my mind. But we understand that experts

cannot retrieve the actual text messages, so it seems that the South

Africans are relying on Tongo's word for what was said. The driver

suggested that we should drive through the township and we had no

reason to distrust him at all. Tongo drove them into the heart of

Gugulethu. And into the hands of one -- Qwabe and Mngeni. We were scared

and stunned. I grabbed Anni because she was starting to cry. I was

instructed to open the doors and then they drove off. I played along

because I knew we were not really being hijacked. Shrien Dewani says

that Anni did not want to give up the wedding and engagement rings. I

told her not to worry that we could buy new rings and that we should

just get out of here. Shrien Dewani handed over all the cash he had on

him, 4000 rand, £350. The films confession of one of the gunmen

confirms this, an account which was filmed before Shrien Dewani became a

suspect. -- filmed confession. Not long after the taxi was

hijacked, Zola Tongo got out here. Before Zola Tongo got out, he told

us that the money was behind the front passenger seat in a pouch. The

hijackers drove off into the darkness of Caer Lytchett township.

-- Khayelitsha township. The driver then said that they just wanted the

car and they would not hurt us but they would let us go separately.

Again Mngeni is the only one to confirm Shrien Dewani's account, and

the only one not to accept a plea bargain. Shrien Dewani and Mngeni

had no contact before or after, but their accounts tally. Around half an

hour after the car was hijacked, Shrien was ordered to get out. I was

holding on to Anni and wanted to go together. Again his account mirrors

Mngeni's. Why ask the gunmen to let them go

together if he wanted Anni dead? They held a gun to my head and said

I had to leave or they would shoot me. Shrien Dewani was now alone in a

township notorious for gun violence. The car just sped off and

my heart was racing. Luckily he stumbled into this man, local

Government auditor Simbonile Matokazi. He was pacing up and down

the road in panic. I thought that he was crying. He called his cousin, a

police officer. He says that Shrien became frantic that the police took

so long to arrive. When I found out that he was a suspect, I was a bit

surprised because I don't think this guy had killed his wife.

After a fruitless search for Anni, police took Shrien Dewani back to

the Cape Grace Hotel. He looks like a distraught man on previously

unseen CCTV, shuttling back and forth from a couple's room to police

who gathered in the hotel's internet room. The taxi driver Zola Tongo was

also at the hotel. I heard the policemen referring to the lady as

his wife, and it was the first time policemen referring to the lady as

that I realised that the lady that he wanted us to murder what his

wife. Sophie had no idea that Anni was Shrien's wife, even though he

had picked them up from the airport and driven them around for hours? --

he had no idea. The police were convinced that she would be found

alive because they just wanted the car. Anni's last moments are

difficult even to imagine. She was killed not long after Shrien

had left the taxi. Qwabe says that She was killed not long after Shrien

he was driving and that Mngeni shot Anni. His recollection seems at odds

with this being a planned murder. He shot. Why was not expecting it. It

gave me quite a fright, you see. Mngeni claims that Qwabe took the

gun, and shot Anni in a struggle for her handbag from the passenger door.

The gunmen dumped the car here in Khayelitsha township, leaving Anni

lying across the back seats. They stole her handbag, the couple's

lying across the back seats. They mobile telephones, designer watches

and jewellery. Police valued the hall at £8,000, six times the price

of the alleged hit. Two of Anni's rings were recovered, one beneath

her body and £25,000 engagement ring hidden in the rear seat. If this was

murder made to look like robbery, why not take the rings? If it was

simply an execution, wouldn't the hit man have stayed to check that

she was dead? Crime scene video has allowed us to

recreate the position in which Anni's fully closed body was

discovered. -- fully clothed. A single shot passed through her left

hand before entering her neck, fatally damaging her spinal-cord and

severing major blood vessels. The South Africans claimed that the

forensic evidence proves that she was carrying against the back-seat

and that Mngeni took aim from the front passenger seat, claiming that

he deliberately shot her with the gun barrel five to ten centimetres

from her body, meaning her death was not an accident. We asked leading

forensic scientists to review all of the evidence in the police docket.

Would it stand up to scrutiny? Was she cowering back in her seat as the

South Africans claim? Was she in a defensive position when she was

shot? There is no pathological evidence to support that. Home

Office pathologist Doctor Shepherd takes a very different view to the

South Africans. There is no evidence of any blood spattered against the

seat around the site of recovery of the bullet. If she had been pushed

back against it, as the bullet exited her body, it would have

caused damage and splatter around that point and there is none. Though

she is leaning forward, or sitting forward on the edge of her seat. It

surprises me that the scene of crime people have not considered it.

If Anni was leaning forwards, can the South Africans be sure the gun

was held at a distance from her? The size and shape of the soot on the

back of her hand would indicate very close range, potentially less than 5

cm. Until its closure last year, Mark Mastaglio was the leading

firearms expert at the Home Office Forensic Science Service.

If we talk your analysis of the facts, it makes it look more likely

that this gun went off in a struggle where it was right up against her.

Is that right? Yes, I think that's a fair statement. What the South

Africans have not done is to carry out any experiments to support the

conclusions. They've made some guesses. They were sloppy? I think

this is a major flaw in the legislate investigation.

What about the murder weapon? Could it have gone off accidentally? There

seems to have been no examination of the puss toll to determine whether

it had a propensity for accidental discharge. Could it go off in a

struggle for instance? There are standard tests you you carried out.

All we have is a statement stating that the gun was in working order.

If tests were not done to rule out accidental shooting, is the South

African view supported that it was a planned murder? If it was a

deliberate shot, I would have expected the shot in the head, maybe

over the heart, not one that struck the neck. It's an unusual place for

an assassination. So on that basis alone, and it's a

very weak bit of evidence, I would veer towards an accidental

discharge, rather than a deliberate shooting.

Last November, Xolile Mngeni was found guilty of being the man who

shot Anni. Despite his filmed confession,

Mngeni had pleaded not guilty and Despite his filmed confession,

denied being involved. He was jailed for life without parole.

But are the South Africans right to say the forensics prove Mngeni was

Anni's culler? Was the gunman in the front passenger seat?

If the conclusion is they think it's a certainty it was from the front

passenger seat, there are other likely options. Criticism can be

levelled because they haven't considered alternative positions.

Could the man Qwabe, given a plea bargain by the state, have been the

gunman? Anni is looking towards the drivers side of the car? Is she

looking out of the door? I don't know, but she's looking that way at

looking out of the door? I don't the time she's shot.

Did the South Africans miss opportunities to put the identity of

Anni's killer beyond doubt? It seems they failed to collect

properly or even to analyse all the forensic samples taken from the taxi

for traces of gunshot residue. Who had the gun, who fired the gun,

were they in the front seat, were they sitting in the back of the

vehicle? We don't know on the evidence we've seen. Pf

One of the UK's leading experts on gunshot residue, Angela Shaw, found

no evidence the hijack hijackers hands or clothes were tested, but

it's the lack of sampling in the taxi that concerns her most.

The samples they did analyse were taken from the rear seat and from

the inside of the door panels. This really does not provide enough

information to establish where the firearm might have been sitting in

the car. So you are saying when a gun is fired, clues go everywhere

and a lot of them weren't even looked at? In this instance, no,

there was a very limited approach. So you have got on the face of it, a

modern technological organisation that in fact, it's a policing system

that's content to use confessions and individual witness evidence

against others and all we know in this country is that we've had some

very big miscarriages from cases of this type.

When the gunmen abandoned the taxi, they say they fled into nearby scrub

land to split the takings. But they disagree on how much they got.

The driver, Qwabe, gave his version of the money trail last year in

return for his plea bargain. Mngeni took the money off me behind

the passenger seat. He found that it was 10,000 rand, not 15,000 rand.

But Mngeni makes no mention of the 10,000 rand. The only one of the

accused not the claim Anni Dewani was paying them says they shared

only the cash they stole from him at gun point.

And there's evidence to support that as Mngeni spent just under 2,000

rand on trainers and clothes the day after Anni's killing.

So what happened to the missing 10,000?

It's not at all clear if this money was in the vehicle despite lots of

talk about it being in the cubby hole. The money just simply has

never been seen anywhere along the line.

New CCTV from Sunday morning shows Shrien talking the call telling him

Anni was dead. When we found out that Anni had been

shot, apparently I just started screaming hysterically and dropped

the phone. Police, a doctor and family friends

were with Shrien in the moments after he learnt his wife was gone.

I was just so hysterical when they told me. I just couldn't think

straight. The behavioural doctor gave me some

medication. The police wouldn't let me see her.

The cameras capture Shrien's shifting emotions in the hours after

Anni's death. Some ten hours afterwards, smiling on the phone to

a friend. Next day, his distress is visible as

he leaves for the mortuary to identify Anni's body.

Before leaving South Africa, Shrien Dewani had one final meeting with

Zola Tongo. Seen here in white, the driver was

still a witness, not a suspect. I met up with Dewani when I received

1,000 rand as payment for my role in orchestrating the murder. Holding a

white plastic bag, Shrien meets him in the lobby and they enter the

Internet room which has no cameras, although other guests are in there.

After just over a minute, Shrien although other guests are in there.

leaves minus the bag. Tongo ten seconds later leaves with the bag

under his shirt. He heads straight to the gent's.

The bag contained an envelope which contained 1,000 rand. I realised

that Dewani had not paid me the full 5,000 rand as he previously agreed.

Tongo left the hotel with the bag in clear view. He says he went looking

for Shrien having realised he'd been short changed but CCTV reveals that

to be untrue. I had no further contact with Dewani

after that. Another lie. Phone records and CCTV show Shrien called

him an hour and 40 minutes after giving him the bag. Top go's

testimony makes no mention of that 54 second call. That's the sixth

time the CCTV contradicts crucial evidence in his sworn statement. So

was Shrien Dewani short changing the man who'd organised Anni's murder

or, was the 1,000 rand, £90, simply payment for his services as a taxi

driver? Tongo was arrested a week after Anni's death.

The very next day, the taxi driver agreed a plea bargain with

prosecutors, a lesser sentence in return for evidence against Anni

Dewani. The speed surprised some senior

legal figures. It seemed to me that the prosecution

service was under some political pressure to get a result as soon as

possible. Even Tongo's jail sentence was

agreed that weekend. Seven years off a 25-year sentence. He could be out

in 2020. Anni's father had still to approve the deal.

The prosecutor asked me, Vinod, do you approve of this, and I said yes,

I want to know the truth, what happened to my Anni.

Just two weeks after Tongo's arrest, the South African High Court rubber

stamped it all. Sentence you to 18 years.

Shrien was now officially a suspect. Tongo's lawyer is satisfied South

Africa's NationalProsecuting Authority or NPA, acted properly.

The NPA must be satisfied that it's sending the right message and the

charge of course at the end has to endorse that it is in fact in the

interests of justice. Others are wary.

A sentence was imposed without ever seeking to check the voracity of the

allegations against the other conspirators. In South Africa,

things are not happening as they should. I don't believe the

prosecuting authorities are checking up on their evidence beforehand.

It's like, we've got to nail somebody, to let's just go for it.

But why apparently so little interest in establishing whether the

taxi driver and the hotel receptionist were telling the truth?

Could fears for South African tourism have played a part?

It's certainly a thought, a preferable outcome to have a finding

that this was a murder that was arranged between Tonga and a foreign

visitor, rather than evidence of rampant criminality in Cape Town.

We put all our findings to the South African authorities. They say it

would be improper to engage with Panorama on the merits of the case

as trial by media would violate Shrien Dewani's right to a fair

trial. I'd want to assure all our people in

trial. South Africa and around the world

that our justice system is fair and Mr Dewani will get a fair trial.

Anni Dewani remains suctioned under the Mental Health Act as he has been

since five months after Anni's death. In July, a British judge

ruled that while not yet fit to death. In July, a British judge

plead, he should return to South death. In July, a British judge

Africa where there are no juries to stand trial.

He's appealing. If convicted, he faces life

imprisonment. The key witnesses, three men, all involved in Anni's

killing, who've all done deals with the state.

If you were him, would you go anywhere near South Africa? I

wouldn't. Not given the quality of investigation as seen by the South

African police. Anni's family have publicly condemned this programme as

trial by TV. They want Shrien Dewani tried in the South African courts.

You must give us the answers, you must go to South Africa and tell us

what happened and why. Every single day is a nightmare for us. It's

torture. The CCTV shows Shrien Dewani leaving the room he shared

with Anni for the last time. Within weeks, he would be a public hate

figure, identified as the man who'd ordered his wife's murder on their

honeymoon. Clearly, there are questions for

Shrien Dewani to answer, but can justice be done, or has it already

been undone by incompetence, flawed evidence and lies?