There was a strong likelihood the murder of King William’s Town doctor Pox Raghavjee was a professional hit, said private investigator Christian Botha.
He was hired by Raghavjee’s widow Heather to probe the unsolved 2007 killing.
At the weekend it emerged police were investigating possible links between the murders of Raghavjee and Anni Dewani.
“A lack of evidence at the crime scene of Dr Pox and the fact that nothing has come to light about the murder for the past three years suggests it could have been done professionally,” said Botha.
Dewani’s husband Shrien was one of four men arrested in connection with her killing. The murder of Raghavjee remains unsolved.
Raghavjee was fatally shot three years ago while on his way to work but nothing was stolen from him.
Last week Shrien Dewani was arrested in the UK after Zola Robert Tongo, who drove Shrien and Anni Dewani around in Cape Town last month, said in documents read out in the Western Cape High Court that Shrien Dewani had orchestrated his wife’s murder and offered R15 000 for her killing.
Ben Watson, representing the South African government, told the London High court during Shrien Dewani’s bail application last week that Tongo “thought” Shrien Dewani had been in South Africa before and had orchestrated a hijacking in which someone died.
“He (Tongo) said he thought this man (Dewani) had been in South Africa before and done something like this before. He said the man (Dewani) had previously arranged for someone to be killed in a fake hijacking in South Africa.”
Yesterday Botha, speaking for the Raghavjee family, said his clients had expressed shock when learning the doctor’s death was possibly linked to Dewani’s murder. - Cape Times