London - Widower Shrien Dewani has hired a top South African lawyer and London publicist to “crush unfounded suggestions” that he could have been involved in his wife’s death in Gugulethu.
Attorney Billy Gundelfinger and publicist Max Clifford have been hired just as the family of the murdered bride, Anni Dewani, declared that “far more questions than answers” remained over her death.
Eleven days after Anni was killed, her father pleaded for someone to tell him what really happened to his daughter.
Vimod Hindocha and his brother Ashok, who live in Sweden, expressed frustration at “inconsistencies” in the inquiry into her death during her honeymoon in South Africa.
Anni, 28, was shot after she and her British husband of just two weeks, millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani, were hijacked by robbers as their taxi drove through Gugulethu, near Cape Town.
On Tuesday, Vimod Hindocha, 61, said: “My mind is in turmoil. I am in despair. I have spoken with my son-in-law, but there are far more questions than answers.
“There are many inconsistencies and I am not happy with the South African police, as they have not spoken to me in any detail.”
The inconsistencies include different accounts given by Dewani to two British papers about the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Although the police have publicly declared that Dewani is not a suspect, unnamed sources have told the press that he does merit further attention. They are apparently “puzzled” at how he escaped the attack with no visible scars. But Dewani, 30, has said: “Saying I was somehow involved simply defies logic.”
Three men – the taxi driver, Zola Tongo, 31, Xolile Mngeni, 23, and Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25 – have been charged with murder. – Daily Mail