Anni Dewani’s family denied inquest into brutal honeymoon murder

Fellow gunman Xolile Mngeni, 23, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in jail.

“In these proceedings, the matter will now rest”.

If new evidence did emerge, he said the family could write to the attorney general and request that the inquest be reopened.

He added that those responsible for his wife’s murder “need to answer questions have failed to do so in court and have not been brought to justice by the South African authorities”.

She was shot dead during their honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2010.

Dewani was accused of orchestrating her murder and, after being extradited from Britain, faced a high-profile trial in the Western Cape High Court.

Anni’s father Vinod Hindocha, and uncle Ashok Hindocha had argued at a previous hearing that Shrien should be ordered to attend an inquest and answer questions.

“The family’s primary preference would be for an inquest to proceed now”, Staker said. She was found in a taxi the next morning with a gunshot wound to the neck.

“And what circumstances led from one to the other”.

In a letter to the coroner Mr Dewani wrote: “I would like to make clear that I have a significant number of questions which remain unanswered about the night that my wife and I were kidnapped and Anni was tragically shot after being taken away from me”.

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Shrien Dewani did not appear at the court.

“We have got a few more options left, we are going to look through all of these options”.

Walker did agree to send Shrien a list of the questions that the Hindocha family have to see if he would be willing to answer them.

“Now we will have to go on with another battle; whatever it is we can’t talk about it at this point”.

‘But this battle is not over, we will continue to fight this case.

For three years he resisted extradition from the United Kingdom to South Africa to stand trial on the basis of his mental health but eventually had all the charges against him dropped.

The sex worker said Mr Dewani had wanted to call off the forthcoming wedding.

“This is not a legal court, he (Mr Dewani) should have just come here and said “Look, this is what happened”.

It is the first time his views have been heard since his 2014 trial.

The judge said the evidence of the prosecution’s main witness was “riddled with contradictions”.

Mr Hindocha said the process of trying to uncover new evidence which could reignite the case, was “already ongoing”.