Cape Town - The man who claims to have arranged the 2010 murder of Swedish honeymooner Anni Hindocha said his knees became weak as they made their way to the site where the killing was scheduled to take place.
Zola Tongo was the taxi driver that Anni and her husband Shrien Dewani had hired to take them around Cape Town.
Dewani stands accused of orchestrating his wife's murder during their honeymoon in Cape Town in November 2010 but has denied the allegations before the Western Cape High Court.
It is Tongo's version that Dewani approached him to have someone “taken out of sight”.
Dewani told him it was a female business partner and, at the time that they were driving into Gugulethu to the spot where hitmen would hijack them, Tongo believed that Anni was Dewani's business partner, the court heard.
He testified that, as they made their way towards Gugulethu, Dewani stared at him in the rear view mirror with wide eyes “as if he could see that I don't want to get into Gugulethu”.
“My knees became weak as I entered,” he said.
But before he knew it , the hijacking was in progress and he was pushed into the back seat at gunpoint.
Both of the attackers were armed - one with a 9mm pistol and the other with a revolver.
The woman was screaming and Dewani tried to console her, he testified.
Tongo is currently serving 18 years in jail after he pleaded guilty to Anni's murder.
The trial continues.
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