Cape Town - A Scotland Yard detective involved in the early stages of the investigation against honeymoon murder accused Shrien Dewani was the first witness to take the stand on Tuesday morning as the trial entered its fifth day.
Mark Roberts was part of the team from the Metropolitan Police Service in the UK which analysed the Dell laptop that belonged to Dewani.
Dewani allegedly used the laptop to access gay hook-up website Gaydar.net and gay fetish website Recon during his courtship with Anni Hindocha.
During the trial this week it emerged that on his profiles, Dewani described himself as a passive single, gay man, who was looking for a dominant guy and who “loves to train up young subs (submissives)”.
Dewani claimed that he was bisexual and had sexual interactions with men physically and online, but also interacted with women in the course of a relationship.
But it is the State's case that he was a closet homosexual and that Anni threatened to expose him after she found out.
Former Gaydar employee Simon Johnson told the court that Dewani described his sexual orientation as gay - not bisexual on his profile, under the name asiansubguy.
He also indicated that he was looking for single gay men, bisexual gay men, couples or groups.
The court heard that Dewani's Gaydar profile was open for lengthy periods of time on November 15 and 16 - after Anni had been killed - while he was at the Cape Grace Hotel.
Dewani's sister removed his profile on November 21, 2010,as a result of the media attention the case attracted, his advocate said/
The trial continues.
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