LATEST NEWS ON DEWANI MURDER

Karen wrote:

Dewani is seriously in the doo doo when the "German Master" opens his yap, he has already signed and confirmed the statement, he was paid 1000pounds for three nights of the masters tactics (looks like a bit of S & M to me).

I will confirm again that the SA Police are corrupt, I lived there for 35years, but in this case yeah, a perfect Topic, Dewani in the doo doo! as he most certainly is.

Tick tock !

docmac wrote:

Karen wrote:

Dewani is seriously in the doo doo when the "German Master" opens his yap, he has already signed and confirmed the statement, he was paid 1000pounds for three nights of the masters tactics (looks like a bit of S & M to me).

I will confirm again that the SA Police are corrupt, I lived there for 35years, but in this case yeah, a perfect Topic, Dewani in the doo doo! as he most certainly is.

Tick tock !

There are bad eggs in the SAPS, for sure. I still live here, and although I've never met one that I know of, they are there. As there are everywhere else.

I do agree that in this instance, Dewani has bit off far more than he can chew. Mike Barkhuizen will chew him up and spit him out like the sinew on a piece of biltong.

docmac wrote:

Karen wrote:

Dewani is seriously in the doo doo when the "German Master" opens his yap, he has already signed and confirmed the statement, he was paid 1000pounds for three nights of the masters tactics (looks like a bit of S & M to me).

I will confirm again that the SA Police are corrupt, I lived there for 35years, but in this case yeah, a perfect Topic, Dewani in the doo doo! as he most certainly is.

Tick tock !

There are bad eggs in the SAPS, for sure. I still live here, and although I've never met one that I know of, they are there. As there are everywhere else.

I do agree that in this instance, Dewani has bit off far more than he can chew. Mike Barkhuizen will chew him up and spit him out like the sinew on a piece of biltong.

Karen wrote:

docmac wrote:

Karen wrote:

Dewani is seriously in the doo doo when the "German Master" opens his yap, he has already signed and confirmed the statement, he was paid 1000pounds for three nights of the masters tactics (looks like a bit of S & M to me).

I will confirm again that the SA Police are corrupt, I lived there for 35years, but in this case yeah, a perfect Topic, Dewani in the doo doo! as he most certainly is.

Tick tock !

There are bad eggs in the SAPS, for sure. I still live here, and although I've never met one that I know of, they are there. As there are everywhere else.

I do agree that in this instance, Dewani has bit off far more than he can chew. Mike Barkhuizen will chew him up and spit him out like the sinew on a piece of biltong.

Goodness - any idea how "lis "I am for biltong cream soda???, we dont get it here in Holland arrgh!

and yeah right on Mr Barkhuizen. Spot on!

“You better pray you don’t share a cell with me, f***head, cause in South Africa we don’t take likely to wife killers. C***sucker”

Politics touches the judicial process, as it does every aspect of modern life. No democracy has managed to isolate its judiciary entirely from the sometimes tawdry taint of legislative and administrative processes which, by their nature, can be both political and partisan.

Nor has any democracy yet successfully quarantined judicial appointments from political influence. The controversial selection of Western Cape Chief Justice John Hlophe springs immediately to mind. So too does the fact that Britain’s top judicial posts — Lord Chancellor, Attorney General and Solicitor General — are all political appointments.

No democracy has yet prevented political factors from influencing who is to be prosecuted. Think of the decision to proceed against a sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma on minor fraud charges, while simultaneously declining to prosecute anyone implicated in the multimillion-rand corruption accompanying the arms deal.

In similar vein was the legal justification for the Iraq invasion that former prime minister Tony Blair served up before the UK Parliament. This flawed opinion was cooked up, it now transpires, with an attorney general in craven thrall to his political masters.

All of which makes the British media furore around South Africa’s extradition application for Shrien Dewani, accused of the contract killing of his young Swedish bride while on honeymoon in Cape Town, at turns laughable and infuriating.

The Dewani defence’s claim — to be weighed at next month’s London hearing — that he would not get a fair trial in SA is the desperate but understandable manoeuvring of a man who does not want to be in the dock. What does smack of hubris, however, is the UK media’s jingoistic and racially tinged portrayal of SA as a banana republic.

It is a view apparently shared by Paul Hoffman SC, of the Institute of Accountability in Southern Africa (IASA). While the opposition Democratic Alliance’s justice spokesperson, Dene Smuts, describes as “deplorable” Hoffman’s views that Dewani has stacked against him factors that “are not conducive to an impartial hearing”, and IASA itself as “a classic case of one man with a fax machine”, Dewani’s legal team will undoubtedly be rubbing their hands in glee.

Hoffman gives the example of Fred van der Vyver, who was charged with bludgeoning his student girlfriend to death with a hammer, but acquitted. He is now sueing for R46-million, alleging malicious prosecution and that the evidence against him was fabricated by the police.

What Hoffman glosses over is that ultimately the judicial system worked and Van Der Vyver never went to jail. Contrast this with Britain’s so-called Guilfdord Four and Maguire Seven, sentenced in the 1970s for Irish Republican Army bombings.

Repeatedly denied leave to appeal, they served 14 years before journalistic exposés of faked evidence and coerced confessions forced a review. The convictions were overturned.

Similarly, the Birmingham Six were sentenced to life terms for IRA bombings. They spent 17 years in jail, despite media exposés of fabricated evidence and forced confessions, before their third appeal succeeded.

Unfortunately such miscarriages are not unique and can occur anywhere. But in neither SA, nor the UK, do occasional case-specific abuses invalidate the entire judicial process.

The extraordinary thing about the SA judicial system is not the systemic problems that Hoffman catalogues, but that despite these it remains internationally respected, even emulated. SA’s judges are not political apparatchiks who deliver their judgements to government prescript, not even to “protect” the SA tourist industry, as the Dewani camp avers.

If extradited Dewani will face as equitable a process in SA as he would in Britain. Oh, and if found guilty, he is even likely to find the appeal process more readily accessible than back home.

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Chief magistrate Howard Riddle heard that Dewani was suffering from a “depressive adjustment disorder” and “acute stress disorder”. The name of the psychiatrist or psychologist who compiled the report submitted to court has not been released.

However, according to highly regarded Durban clinical psychologist Francois de Marigny, it is “highly unlikely” that either of the diagnoses would apply in Dewani’s case.

De Marigny, who is also experienced in forensic psychology, is frequently asked to present expert testimony in court regarding the mental state of prisoners.

“According to the most recent diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, neither diagnosis seems logical in this instance. While you can get adjustment disorder with a depressed mood, an exclusionary criterion is bereavement.

mara thon wrote:http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110202/tuk-dewani-suspect-outlines-killing-6323e80.html

Dewani suspect 'outlines killing'

A suspect in the murder of Anni Dewani, killed on her honeymoon in South Africa, has outlined her final moments in a document that has been made public by police. Skip related content
The contents of Mziwamadoda Qwabe's statement, which he claims was made after he was assaulted, were released as he attended a bail hearing. The 25-year-old has been in custody since his arrest in November.

An outline of the statement given to the magistrates' court told how he agreed to take part in a staged hijacking and robbery in Cape Town.

Investigating officer Captain Paul Hendrikse said in the statement that Qwabe and co-accused Xolile Mngeni hijacked the vehicle containing Mrs Dewani, 28, and new husband Shrien on the night of November 13.

Taxi driver Zola Tongo, who has been sentenced to 18 years after admitting his role in the murder and making a confession that implicated Mr Dewani, was apparently allowed to go after telling them the money they had been promised was behind the front passenger seat. They drove off but stopped to let Mr Dewani out of the car, and carried on with Qwabe driving.

Captain Hendrikse said in the document: "(Qwabe said) that while he was driving he heard a single shot. That he got scared and nervous and parked the vehicle at the side of the road in Litha Park.

"That he got out and saw Mngeni looking for the bullet and that he (Qwabe) found the casing and threw it in a drain while they were running away; and that Mngeni brought the firearm to him the following day."

Hendrikse said that the day after Qwabe made the statement, he formally pointed out the crime scene to police, who recovered a cartridge and firearm from the scene.

The hearing was postponed until February 25, when his trial, and that of Mngeni, is due to begin. Qwabe faces charges of murder, kidnapping and robbery with aggravating circumstances, and the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Mr Dewani is accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife and faces an extradition hearing next week. The couple had only been married for a fortnight when the attack took place.

buildersbum wrote:I have to say Im a great believer in innocent until proven, but imo just like the McCanns......... I just know that he is as guilty as hell, and like them I hope that they nail this B******D

buildersbum wrote:Thanks fred

wjk wrote:Thanks Panda, for the update
I too think he's guilty. I hope they can prove it in this case!

During cross-examination he alleged a police officer he said he could point out and name had assaulted him at the police’s organised crime unit offices soon after his arrest.

Panda wrote:

buildersbum wrote:Thanks fred

Hi Buildersbum, I agree it looks very suspicious but who knows what a "donation" to the right people will do!!!

chrissie wrote:http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Honeymoon-Murder-Shrien-Dewanis-Lawyers-Query-Whether-He-Will-Get-A-Fair-Trial-In-South-Africa/Article/201102215925852?lpos=UK_News_Second_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15925852_Honeymoon_Murder%3A_Shrien_Dewanis_Lawyers_Query_Whether_He_Will_Get_A_Fair_Trial_In_South_Africa


Extradition Case Date Set For Shrien Dewani

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12:21pm UK, Tuesday February 08, 2011

Rachel Younger, Sky News correspondent
The extradition case for Shrien Dewani, the man wanted in South Africa for allegedly murdering his new wife, will start on May 3 at Woolwich Crown Court in London.

The 31-year-old was not present to hear Judge Riddle set out the timetable of the case against him.

However, his legal team were told he would be required to attend the next hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on March 23.

Judge Riddle made it clear he had not excused Dewani this time because of his severe post-traumatic stress disorder but simply because the case could proceed equally well without him.

Dewani's counsel, Julian Knowles QC, told the court the case against extradition would centre on prison conditions in South Africa; whether a fair trial was possible; Dewani's mental and physical condition and the possible abuse of process and conduct in South Africa.

Mr Knowles said he was having great difficulty communicating with his client and his ongoing ill health was preventing him from taking instruction from him.

Dewani denies any involvement in the murder of his Swedish wife Anni, who was shot dead during a carjacking just outside Cape Town on their honeymoon in November.

Four South Africans have been arrested, with the Dewani's taxi driver Zola Tongo sentenced to 18 years for his part in the killing.

The South African authorities maintain Dewani masterminded his wife's murder.