		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="111265417"
		 data-section="2">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/net-is-closing-in-on-newlywed-sa.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="South African authorities want to extradite wealthy businessman Shrien Dewani" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-net-is-closing-in-on-newlywed-sa.jpg" alt="South African authorities want to extradite wealthy businessman Shrien Dewani"/></a></p>
<p>The British newlywed accused of hiring a hitman to kill his bride has won bail despite claims in the High Court that the &#8220;net was closing in&#8221; on him.</p>
<p>Wealthy businessman Shrien Dewani, 30, is facing a bid by the South African authorities to extradite him for conspiracy to murder new wife Anni, 28, who was found dead in the back of an abandoned taxi in a Cape Town township with a single bullet wound to her neck on November 13.</p>
<p>Mr Dewani&#8217;s family welcomed a judge&#8217;s decision to grant the care home owner £250,000 bail on Friday, saying in a joint statement: &#8220;We are all delighted that the courts have consistently upheld Shrien Dewani&#8217;s right to bail.&#8221;</p>
<p>South Africa&#8217;s National Prosecuting Authority said it would continue preparing extradition papers, and the country&#8217;s justice minister Jeff Radebe said it is simply untrue to suggest he would not get a fair trial.</p>
<p>Dewani, from Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol, faces electronic tagging, home curfew and having to report daily to the police pending further extradition hearings.</p>
<p>He was held in custody after the South African authorities issued a provisional arrest warrant as the first stage to seeking his extradition.</p>
<p>The warrant came after taxi driver Zola Tongo, as part of a plea agreement for his part in the killing, accused Dewani of offering to pay 15,000 rand (£1,400) for his wife&#8217;s murder and ordering it to appear like a bungled carjacking as they drove through the notorious township of Gugulethu.</p>
<p>On Friday, lawyers for the South Africans asked the judge to overturn the decision at City of Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court earlier this week allowing bail. Ben Watson, representing the prosecutors, told the court there was significant new evidence which had not been put before the Westminster court that demonstrated a &#8220;very powerful&#8221; case against Dewani.</p>
<p>He said &#8220;the net was closing in&#8221; and Dewani should not be granted bail &#8220;even on the most stringent conditions&#8221;. CCTV footage of meetings between Dewani and Tongo, without Dewani&#8217;s wife present, supported the taxi driver&#8217;s account of the murder conspiracy, said Mr Watson. Other footage showed Tongo &#8220;surreptitiously&#8221; receiving &#8220;a white, plastic packet&#8221; from Dewani three days after the murder.</p>
<p>But Clare Montgomery QC, for Dewani, argued that there is nothing in the fresh material and it added nothing to the summary of information already provided.</p>
			<div style="padding-bottom:15px;" class="wordads-tag" data-slot-type="belowpost">
				<div id="atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ee4c3215de6">
					<script type="text/javascript">
						window.getAdSnippetCallback = function () {
							if ( false === ( window.isWatlV1 ?? false ) ) {
								// Use Aditude scripts.
								window.tudeMappings = window.tudeMappings || [];
								window.tudeMappings.push( {
									divId: 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ee4c3215de6',
									format: 'belowpost',
								} );
							}
						}

						if ( document.readyState === 'loading' ) {
							document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', window.getAdSnippetCallback );
						} else {
							window.getAdSnippetCallback();
						}
					</script>
				</div>
			</div>
Discover more from London Glossy Post
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
