The Anni Dewani Murder Case

Those intellectual giants are now blaming the following for the case woes

- Rodney de Kock DPP
- both State prosecutors Mopp and Riley
- The judge

Apparently there is a total conspiracy from the state to avoid the prosecution.

Shame they did not blame Dewani or the other criminals.
 
Now they have pulled out the race card.

Getting desperate, hey!!!

The last refuge of the intellectually weak.
 
marine1 said:
This judge imo has shown bias and should be recused but it's just an indication of our justice system. Look at fidentia scandal same court same disgrace
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Having read the Fidentia appeal case and how the judge was reprimanded, I'm not so sure that Traverso can be accused of doing the same. Yes she was impatient with the state, and she overly interfered in the questioning of witnesses, but who wouldn't have doen the same given the shambolic case the state presented? It wouldn't have mattered if there was a different judge, the state's case is just weak and embarassing and Dewani should go back home. He may have ordered the killing of his wife but there's no way the state proved his guilt.
 
The ruling is live on eNCA, for those of you interested.
 
DEWANI WALKS FREE

UK businessman Shrien Dewani has been discharged on a count of murdering his wife Anni while on honeymoon in South Africa.

Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso granted an application for a discharge in the Western Cape High Court on Monday.

"I make the following order... the application is granted. The accused is found not guilty on this charge."

She said the only reason not to grant the application would be out of hope that the accused would implicate himself if he took the witness stand.

To do so would be a "manifest misdirection", said Traverso.


Source : Sapa /fg/th
Date : 08 Dec 2014 12:46
 
Well ****! Oh well the state's witnesses were pretty unreliable - I hope they increase their sentences because they reneged on the deals
 
Garyvdh said:
DEWANI WALKS FREE

UK businessman Shrien Dewani has been discharged on a count of murdering his wife Anni while on honeymoon in South Africa.

Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso granted an application for a discharge in the Western Cape High Court on Monday.

"I make the following order... the application is granted. The accused is found not guilty on this charge."

She said the only reason not to grant the application would be out of hope that the accused would implicate himself if he took the witness stand.

To do so would be a "manifest misdirection", said Traverso.


Source : Sapa /fg/th
Date : 08 Dec 2014 12:46
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Good decision. The state's case was so poor it's not even funny.
 
DEWANI FOUND NOT GUILTY

British businessman Shrien Dewani was on Monday discharged of the killing of his wife Anni in 2010 and free to return home.

Western Cape High Court Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso said his application was granted and he was thus found not guilty on five charges.

"There is no evidence on which a reasonable man can convict the accused," she said.

Dewani walked out of the dock and down the stairs to the holding cell without any expression on his face.

His family burst into tears at the news.

Traverso said the only possible reason to have refused his application was for the hope that he would implicate himself during evidence, which would be an injustice.

After a lengthy and costly extradition process, Dewani went on trial in October for allegedly plotting with Tongo and others to kill his wife 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 was hijacked while Tongo drove them through Gugulethu in his minibus on Saturday, November 13, 2010.

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, for which he paid R15,000. Dewani maintains Tongo helped him organise a surprise helicopter trip for Anni for R15,000.

Tongo is serving an 18-year jail term and 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.


Source : Sapa /je/fg
Date : 08 Dec 2014 12:56
 
marine1 said:
This judge imo has shown bias and should be recused but it's just an indication of our justice system. Look at fidentia scandal same court same disgrace
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Actually no. This is a prime example of Machiavellian justice.
Consider:

1. He has been ‘outed’ before the world and has exhibited some strange sex habits.
2. He was the male heir to the family fortune. He can forget about that.
3. In the ‘Who’s who’ of the Indian hierarchy the family has taken a massive hit. They won’t be impressed with him. With his actions he has destroyed decades of family manoeuvring for financial power.
4. The family present a united front to the world but within the family he must be suspected as a deviant psychopath.
5. His love life will take a hit. Marriages of ‘convenience’ are definitely out.
6. He will always be looking over his shoulder, suspecting that the victims’ family has placed a bounty on his head.
7. He will die a bitter, afraid old man, universally shunned.

The victims family need do nothing except gracefully accept the verdict. They have gained status (in India) commensurate with the perp family’s loss. They hold the moral high ground. They have the sympathy of the world.

It also shows the world our inept SAPS in SA. This can only be a good thing.

IMO a backhand form of justice was served. Imagine his life from now on. I wonder if the judge is a student of Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli.
 
Dan Newling interviewed Shrien Dewani at the cape grace hotel. Dewani told him then(4 years ago) about a helicopter trip.

So it was not made up in the interim 4 years.
 
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