Western Cape High Court Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso was asked on Monday to look at all the improbabilities surrounding the evidence presented during the trial of British businessman Shrien Dewani. Francois van Zyl, for Dewani, argued during an application to have his client discharged that certain details of an[…]
The Western Cape High Court is expected to hear arguments on Monday on an application for British businessman Shrien Dewani’s discharge on charges of conspiring to kill his wife. Last Monday, Francois van Zyl, for Dewani, said the defence intended making an application to Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso in[…]
The NPA filed papers on Friday in response to British businessman Shrien Dewani’s lawyers’ heads of argument in an application for his discharge on charges of conspiring to kill his wife Anni. “The State has filed its responding papers. We will now argue on Monday morning,” said NPA Western Cape[…]
Lawyers for British businessman Shrien Dewani said on Monday they intended applying to the Western Cape High Court for his discharge on charges of conspiring to kill his wife Anni. Francois van Zyl, for Dewani, said the defence intended making an application to Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso in terms[…]
The murder trial of British businessman Shrien Dewani, accused of killing his wife Anni, will resume in the Western Cape High Court on Friday. The court did not sit on Thursday because it was the anniversary of Anni’s death. On Wednesday, Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso lambasted prosecutor Adrian Mopp[…]
British businessman Shrien Dewani and his newly-wed wife Anni sent each other “playful” phone messages days before she was killed in November 2010, the Western Cape High Court heard on Wednesday. Francois van Zyl, for Shrien Dewani, re-called investigating officer Captain Paul Hendrikse to show him the Blackberry phone messages[…]
Emotional e-mails from slain honeymooner Anni Dewani to her husband Shrien were retrieved from her phone in 2011, an investigating officer told the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. Captain Paul Hendrikse, the State’s 15th witness, said they recovered her BlackBerry phone and sent it to the United Kingdom in[…]
A new witness is expected to be called on Tuesday as the trial of British businessman Shrien Dewani continues in the Western Cape High Court. On Monday, the court heard from a hotel receptionist of how two important phone calls took place around an alleged plot to kill Dewani’s wife[…]
Convicted shuttle taxi driver Zola Tongo did not know how honeymooner Anni Dewani would be killed even though he heard his accomplices talking about firearms, the Western Cape High Court heard on Wednesday. “As to what was going to happen, where and how, whether she was going to be shot,[…]
Two hitmen apparently knew they had to go ahead with a plan to kill honeymooner Anni Dewani in 2010 without being in contact with her husband, the Western Cape High Court heard on Tuesday. Francois van Zyl, for Shrien Dewani, showed the court a timeline of the phone calls, as[…]
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