The Shrien Dewani Trial
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He goes on trial tomorrow in Cape Town for the murder of his wife Anni in 2010. A British couple who were on honeymoon in South Africa when the murder took place. A horrendous crime that he is alleged to have organised.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/05/shrien-dewani-trial_n_5934498.html
Given the high profile court case of Oscar Pistorious in recent months it will be interesting to see whether the South African legal system redeems itself in people eyes with how it handles this case.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/05/shrien-dewani-trial_n_5934498.html
Given the high profile court case of Oscar Pistorious in recent months it will be interesting to see whether the South African legal system redeems itself in people eyes with how it handles this case.
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We shall see though.
Is this one scheduled to drag on as long?
The other thing is, somebody should go and have a word with all the psychiatrists who'd been saying he was unfit to stand trial.
He's there, standing trial.
They were wrong.
That would suggest the shrinks were either incompetent or deliberately obstructive.
Dewani has made an admission that he is bisexual and had meetings with the German Master (who is in Cape Town to give evidence). He says the money was for a helicopter ride. He says their relationship was turbulent but that they loved each other. He was on hormone therapy to try and have children.
My starting position in this trial is that he is guilty. But I thought Pistorius was guilty of knowingly shooting Reeva at the start and the evidence changed that for me, so let's see.
I'm pretty convinced though. Not from the admission obviously, just from having followed the case for 4 years.
It seems they married because of family expectations but neither of them really wanted to?
Do you have a link to the documentary? I seem to remember it was pro Dewani?
Such is the insidious nature of arranged marriage, and neanderthal attitudes to homosexuality. I wonder how many Indians are trapped in loveless marriages?
Many I would imagine. Tho perhaps easier to live with than homosexuality. Tho he said he was bi sexual not homosexual.
That hard-wired need to love and protect her does not include a visit to a South African Township.
It's good to admit it, but tbh I don't think he had much choice, the evidence is too strong. He had denied it for years, and his family had released statements denying it too, as well as denying the male prostitute links.
Not enough hours in the day for me to wade through that thread. So care to spill?
I’ve also followed the developments in this rather complex case and I have a completely opposite view.
Regardless of Dewani’s bi-sexual orientation, a fact that has been seized upon by the prosecution (as one would expect) the guy is completely innocent, in my opinion.
He and his wife were the victims of an armed robbery, the format of which was well-rehearsed and had allegedly been carried out previously with other unsuspecting wealthy victims.
However, on this occasion it went wrong with tragic consequences.
The 3 ‘murderers’, that included the taxi driver, all admitted their guilt and were given long prison sentences.
However, the taxi driver Zola Tongo (the only one that had previously met Dewani) was offered a plea-bargain to have his sentence greatly reduced if he would implicate Dewani in the conspiracy.
Tongo seized the opportunity..............which lying, convicted murderer would refuse an offer like that!
The reasons why some authorities may have wanted Dewani (a non-S.African) implicated in the murder appear to be many and varied; I suspect they will be central to the Defences’ case.
The trial will be very interesting and I sincerely hope Dewanis’ fate, whether guilty or innocent, will be decided by the ‘real’ facts.
I do find it interesting that he told Anni he didn't believe in sex before marriage (according to her family), but was having affairs with male prostitutes before they got married.
This will probably be my last comment on this trial, though I will follow it closely ( I ventured once into the Pistorius thread and got such a kicking I almost deleted my whole DS account!, just because I had the gall to try to imagine myself in Reeva's place, prior to the shooting when she was cowering in the toilet)
One lives in hope.
I think he did it but I am interested in the testimony. I think all his denials about the German Master has influenced me. With that out of the way I may be more open to be convinced of his innocence - or at least significantly doubting his guilt.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/16/article-2421557-1BD251AD000005DC-724_306x423.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vRVUXRlzgtA/0.jpg
A lot of coincidences . It will be interesting .
Not arranged no, but I think that he married to please his parents who wouldn't have accepted him as gay.
I thought that the way they walked into that restaurant was very odd. Not what I would have expected from a honeymoon couple. Of course it doesn't make him guilty but they didn't look loved up to me,