Shrien Dewani has been found not guilty of orchestrating the murder of his wife, Anni Dewani, on their honeymoon in South Africa in 2010. Judge Jeannette Traverso agreed with an application by the defence to have the case thrown out, criticising the prosecution’s decision to base its case entirely on the witness testimony of a “self-confessed liar” who “does not know where the truth ends and a lie begins”.
The state’s case rested on the witness testimony of three men who admitted involvement in Anni’s murder and said Shrien Dewani had employed them to carry out an apparent car-jacking. Traverso said their testimony was “so riddled with contradictions, mistakes, lies and inconsistencies that I can all but ignore them”.
The family of Anni Dewani said they did not feel that justice had been done. Ami Denborg said they were sad that the dismissal of the case meant that Shrien Dewani would not have to give his version of events from the witness stand:
All we wanted was to hear all the events – the hope of finding that out has kept us as a family going. We feel that right has been taken away from us. We feel really really sad because we never heard the full story of Shrien.
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