SHRIEN DEWANI DENIES ARRANGING HIS WIFE'S MURDER
According to a report in the Mirror Online, Shrien Dewani denies the murder of his wife Anni who had
been planning to get pregnant, according to medical notes The court has seen
video footage of tests carried out to see where the shooter may have fired
from.
The gunman's most
likely position would have been from the front left of the vehicle.
The session adjourns
for a short tea break.
Xolile Mngeni, He died in prison over the weekend from a brain tumour. |
Using these measurements, he
tells the court that at full reach the gunman would be have 40cm short of the
back rest of the car.
Englebrecht tells the
court that Anni "moved or leaned to her right" before the shot was
fired.
He goes on to say he
visited Goodwood Prison on Saturday to measure Mngeni's arms and shoulder width
- the day before Mngeni died.
He also took the
measurements of the VW Sharan taxi.
Ballistics expert to give evidence;
We're due to get underway
in the trial any moment.
On the stand today at the
Western Cape High Court is a police ballistics experts.
Warrant Officer Pieter
Engelbrecht also gave evidence in the trial of Xolile Mngeni - the man who
fired the fatal shot that killed Anni Dewani. He died in prison over the weekend from a brain tumour.
The trial of Shrien Dewani will continue
in South Africa this morning, after the court heard yesterday Anni Dewani had
been planning to get pregnant.
On Tuesday Francois van Zyl, the lawyer representing British businessman
Dewani, told the Western Cape High Court that he had medical notes which
showed Anni visited a doctor on
November 4 2010 and told him she was trying to conceive.
Mrs Dewani had
told the doctor she was not on contraceptives, and the doctor advised her to
take tablets to improve her fertility, Mr Van Zyl said.
Mrs Dewani was
shot dead as she and her new husband toured a rough Cape Town neighbourhood in
November 2010.
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