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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/newlywed-wants-to-clear-name.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Shrien Dewani, pictured with his wife Anni, has been detained in the UK" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-newlywed-wants-to-clear-name.jpg" alt="Shrien Dewani, pictured with his wife Anni, has been detained in the UK"/></a></p>
<p>A British newlywed accused of paying to have his bride killed on their honeymoon in South Africa has welcomed the chance to clear his name through the courts.</p>
<p>Shrien Dewani, whose wife Anni was shot dead last month as they visited a township, is being held by Scotland Yard extradition officers after a request from the South African authorities.</p>
<p>Ahead of his hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court in London, a statement released on his behalf by lawyer Clare Montgomery QC said: &#8220;Shrien Dewani had no involvement in the death of his wife Anni.</p>
<p>&#8220;He is devastated by her murder and the false allegations that have been made against him and welcomes the chance to clear his name through the courts.</p>
<p>&#8220;He will appear before the City of Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court this afternoon and, in the circumstances, has been advised it would not be right for him to make any further comment outside the court.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Dewani was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder his new bride after a court hearing in South Africa on Tuesday, during which taxi driver Zola Tongo said the 30-year-old businessman offered 15,000 rand (£1,300) to kill her.</p>
<p>The Dewani family has dismissed the allegation as &#8220;totally ludicrous&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Dewani, from Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol, handed himself in at a police station in the south-west English city on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said. Swedish Mrs Dewani, 28, was shot dead on November 13 after the couple&#8217;s taxi was hijacked in the impoverished Gugulethu township in Cape Town.</p>
<p>Mr Dewani, who was released along with the driver by the carjackers, returned to England after the murder and has always denied any involvement in his wife&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>At Western Cape High Court on Tuesday, Tongo claimed the businessman offered £1,300 for the killing just hours after the couple arrived in the country last month. Tongo&#8217;s allegation formed part of a plea bargain drawn up with prosecutors at the court, where he was jailed for 18 years for his part in the killing on November 13.</p>
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