The Anni Dewani Murder Case

Apparently the innocent part is optional, if you have a big enough bank balance.

Thank god most criminals are poor else we would have all these repeat offenders out on the streets.
 
One thing I'm wondering, according to Dewani, he says they went to Gugulethu because Anni insisted that she wanted to see the nightlife in the township. This was while they were on their way home from dinner so it sounds like it was a spontaneous decision. He said he alerted the driver, then saw a green board written Gugulethu and then there were the hijackers.
If this was true, how did the hijackers know they would go to Gugulethu, if that wasn't their plan in the first place?
 
joelus said:
One thing I'm wondering, according to Dewani, he says they went to Gugulethu because Anni insisted that she wanted to see the nightlife in the township. This was while they were on their way home from dinner so it sounds like it was a spontaneous decision. He said he alerted the driver, then saw a green board written Gugulethu and then there were the hijackers.
If this was true, how did the hijackers know they would go to Gugulethu, if that wasn't their plan in the first place?
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If the plan wasn't spontaneous then Tongo could have alerted the hijackers.
 
The rebuttal witness is a prison warder (Tongas credibility just dropped to zero)

This is as per EWN news feed, other papers are carry that it was another prisoner.

Is there one or two rebuttal witnesses?
 
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When they call the warden to testify.

It is not third hand testimony.

I am interested in the Judges take on this info.

Wont be the first time a petty crook confessed to his prison 'buddy'

The court can decide on hearsay evidence. It is not automatically excluded.

Also if the declarant is cross examined, it might be allowed(declarant is Tonga) And he was called as a witness
 
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DEWANI NEVER GAVE ME R500: OFFICER

A policeman assigned to look after Shrien Dewani and family members in 2010 never received R500 as a thank you gesture, he told the Western Cape High Court on Thursday.

Pieter Botha, for Dewani, asked Captain Vinesh Lutchman to confirm that his client gave him a thank-you card and R500 just before he left the country on November 16, 2010.

Lutchman, the state's 13th witness, said he got a card in a white envelope but no money.

Botha said the money was given because the officer had given some of his own chronic medication to Shrien Dewani's wife Anni's father and also driven them around and made calls on his phone.

"It was a state vehicle and in the course of duty," Lutchman replied.

"If he did give me R500 I would have brought it to the attention of my commander. If we get a gift we must declare it. I just opened it the next day and saw the card. There was no money in the card."

Botha tried to indicate that Lutchman might not want to admit he received money because he had not declared it, but the officer stuck to his version.

Dewani is on trial for allegedly plotting with shuttle taxi driver Zola Tongo and others to kill Anni while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town in November 2010.

He has pleaded not guilty to charges including kidnapping, murder and defeating the ends of justice.

He claims the couple were hijacked as Tongo was driving them through Gugulethu in his minibus on Saturday, November 13.

He was released unharmed and Anni was driven away. She was found shot dead in the abandoned minibus in Khayelitsha the next morning.

The State alleges he conspired with others to stage the hijacking in return for R15,000.

He maintains that Tongo helped him organise a surprise helicopter trip for Anni for R15,000.

Lutchman was appointed as the family liaison officer after the incident and spent most of the time with Shrien Dewani.

Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso asked whether there was anything about Dewani's behaviour that made him suspicious.

Lutchman said he did not act suspiciously.

The court earlier heard that Dewani did not attend a Hindu ceremony to bless his wife's body before it was repatriated.

He had told Lutchman he was going to go shopping.

Botha explained that Dewani had identified her body at the morgue the previous day and that was quite traumatic.

He simply did not want to see her body again.

"If it is a loved one's post-mortem and you thereafter have to identify the body, that is not a pleasant thing to do?" Botha asked of the witness.

Lutchman said it was not.

He said Dewani did not tell him about any of his holiday plans, including the surprise helicopter trip, and that it would have been strange given the circumstances.

He also conceded that Dewani might not have wanted to speak to a counsellor because he was anxious about the steps the police were taking to find his wife.

However, he stuck to his version that Dewani used the word "township" when explaining Anni wanted to see the nightlife.

He was excused from the stand.


Source : Sapa /je/jk/jje
Date : 06 Nov 2014 13:46
 
silver6933 said:
The rebuttal witness is a prison warder (Tongas credibility just dropped to zero)

This is as per EWN news feed, other papers are carry that it was another prisoner.

Is there one or two rebuttal witnesses?
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how can a prison warder's evidence cause tonga's credibility to drop to zero ?

any idea as to how the prisons are so awash with drugs & weapons, any ideas how prisoners manage "miraculous" escapes.
just how is it the contraband seems to get in, and locked up prisoners get out ?
 
I WAS NOT HONEST: MBOLOMBO

Hotel receptionist Monde Mbolombo on Thursday admitted he had not been honest about his involvement in Anni Dewani's murder until recently when called to testify in the Western Cape High Court.

Mbolombo, 35, dressed in a grey suit and green tie, told prosecutor Shareen Riley he lied in two statements he gave to police, and during his testimony in gunman Xolile Mngeni's trial in 2012.

"I was scared, my lady, that I would be arrested and that the more I disclosed my involvement I would be taken and incarcerated," he said to Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso.

Mbolombo is the State's 14th witness called to testify in Shrien Dewani's trial. The British businessman is on trial for allegedly plotting with shuttle taxi driver Zola Tongo and others to kill his wife Anni while they were on honeymoon on Cape Town in November 2010.

He has pleaded not guilty to charges including kidnapping, murder, and defeating the ends of justice.

He claims the couple were hijacked as Tongo was driving them through Gugulethu in his minibus on Saturday, November 13. He was released unharmed and Anni was driven away. She was found shot dead in the abandoned minibus in Khayelitsha the next morning.

The State alleges he paid his co-conspirators R15,000 to stage the hijacking.

He maintains Tongo helped him organise a surprise helicopter trip for Anni for R15,000.

Tongo is serving an 18-year jail term and Mziwamadoda Qwabe, a 25-year jail term. Xolile Mngeni was serving life in jail for firing the shot that killed Anni, but died in prison from a brain tumour on October 18.

After Mngeni was convicted, Judge Robert Henney granted Mbolombo immunity from prosecution on two charges -- conspiracy to commit murder and illegal possession of ammunition.

On Thursday, Traverso warned Mbolombo that he faced five counts and made sure he read and understood the charge sheet first during a short adjournment.

"I am not satisfied as I sit here yet, I might be at a later stage, that the indemnity granted to you by Judge Henney, applies to this case as well," she told him.

"At a later stage I would ask counsel to address me on that aspect."

Mbolombo made a statement on the day of his arrest on November 18, 2010 and a second statement soon after.

He volunteered a third statement in September this year after the prosecution showed footage of him at the Protea Hotel.

Explaining his reason for this he said: "It so transpired that I had run out of ideas now and there was no more hiding on my side and I just had to be open and honest."

Dewani's defence team have consistently argued that Mbolombo played a much more central role in the alleged murder plot than what the State claimed.


Source : Sapa /je/th/jk/jje
Date : 06 Nov 2014 14:29
 
Jeez, everyone involved seems to be a chronic liar.
 
marine1 said:
These guys could never have dreamed up such an elaborate story
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Those guys conspired to commit a crime, perhaps murder or kidnapping.
They then hijacked a car.
They then MURDERED a woman.

But apparently them lying; is not a possibility.
 
I have been saying that from the day the news broke - you won't believe how many people are gullible enough to believe the nonsense the cops and media feed them. It's like they all had an enema and their brains fell through their sphincters.
 
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