Murder of Anni Dewani

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Anni, 28, newly married for just two weeks to British millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani, was shot after she and her husband were carjacked by robbers as their taxi drove through a township near Cape Town.

Now eleven days after Anni was killed, her father pleaded for someone to tell him what really happened to his daughter.

Anni Dewani’s family indicated that there are far more questions than answers over her death with a lot of inconsistencies in the inquiry into her death during her honeymoon in South Africa.

The deceased family is not happy with the South African police as they have not spoken to them in any detail.

Inconsistencies include different accounts given by Mr Dewani to two British papers about the circumstances surrounding the kidnap. He first spoke to the Daily Mail last week and said the couple went into the township of Gugulethu on the instigation of his wife who wanted to “look at the real Africa.

But in an interview with the Sun yesterday, he said it was the taxi driver who suggested they should visit the township to “see some African dancing” and they had been lukewarm about going.

Mr Dewani said the attack happened within three minutes of leaving the motorway on the outskirts of the township. However the Sun reported him as saying they had earlier been driven to a restaurant inside Gugulethu.

Mr Dewani has hired the services of a South African lawyer, Billy Gundelfinger, and also publicist Max Clifford. They aim to crush unfounded suggestions that he could have been involved in his wife’s death.

Meanwhile three suspects - the Dewani’s taxi driver, Zola Tongo, 31, and 23-year-old Xolile Mngeni and Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25 - have been charged with murder.

Now police indicated Mr Dewani might be a suspect but Mr Dewani, 30, has said: “Saying I was somehow involved simply defies logic.

Police indicated that Mr Dewani - back in Britain for his wife’s funeral - would be asked to return to Cape Town “soon as there will be an ID parade.

On 7 December the British husband Shrien Dewani was accused of colluding in the attack to hijack and killing his bride Anni.

This is now claimed by the taxi driver suspected of betraying Shrien Dewani and his Swedish wife Anni.

Zola Tongo, 31, has agreed to a plea bargain to “reveal all” in exchange for a lesser sentence.

They had agreed to take a detour through the township but within three minutes of leaving the highway, the taxi was ambushed by two gunmen.

Dewani was thrown out and his wife’s body was found later in the abandoned vehicle in Khayelitsha. She had been shot in the neck.

Two men and Tongo were arrested and charged with murder kidnapping and aggravated robbery.