Cape Town - It was a calculated move for taxi driver Zola Tongo to lock British businessman Shrien Dewani and his wife into his vehicle shortly before they were to be hijacked and the wife shot dead, the Western Cape High Court heard on Monday.
Tongo was under cross examination by the advocate representing Dewani, who is accused of orchestrating the murder of his wife, Anni Hindocha.
It is alleged that Dewani hired Tongo to arrange the hit and that he requested that it be made to look like a hijacking.
He and Tongo should not be harmed.
Shortly before Anni was shot dead on Novemver 13, 2010, both Dewani and Tongo were kicked out of the vehicle.
The defence has now questioned why Tongo engaged the child locks and why he parked his car out of the view of the front reception area of Dewani's hotel when he did so.
The defence played footage which depicted Tongo parking his car away from the hotel entrance, where the couple had been waiting for him, when he switched on the child locks.
Defence advocate Francois van Zyl SC put it to him that his actions were calculated.
The defence previously suggested that Tongo, along with hitmen Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni, killed Anni by accident during a struggle.
Dewani was kicked out of the vehicle because he would have had to pay for the return of his wife if any demands were made, the defence says.
The trial continues.
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