{"id":9487,"date":"2012-03-30T15:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/uk-honeymooner-wins-stay-of-extradition-to-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:43","slug":"uk-honeymooner-wins-stay-of-extradition-to-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/uk-honeymooner-wins-stay-of-extradition-to-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UK honeymooner wins stay of extradition to S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, March 30<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The extradition to South Africa<br \/>\nof a British man accused of conspiring to kill his wife in a<br \/>\nfake car-jacking during the couple&#8217;s honeymoon in Cape Town was<br \/>\ntemporarily halted by London&#8217;s High Court on Friday over<br \/>\nconcerns for his mental health.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Millionaire Shrien Dewani, 31, has fought extradition<br \/>\nproceedings, arguing that he is suffering from severe<br \/>\npost-traumatic stress disorder and is too unwell to be sent<br \/>\nabroad for trial.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last August, however, a judge approved the extradition, a<br \/>\ndecision subsequently upheld by Home Secretary Theresa May.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But on Friday, High Court judge Sir John Thomas said it<br \/>\nwould be unjust and oppressive to send Dewani back to South<br \/>\nAfrica in his present condition.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He added though: &#8220;It is plainly in the interests of justice<br \/>\nthat the appellant be tried in South Africa as soon as he is fit<br \/>\nto be tried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anni Dewani, 28 and from Sweden, was shot when the taxi the<br \/>\ncouple were travelling in was hijacked in the Gugulethu township<br \/>\non the outskirts of Cape Town last November.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She was found dead in the back of the abandoned cab with a<br \/>\nbullet wound to her neck after cabbie Zola Tongo drove the<br \/>\nnewlyweds to the township.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shrien Dewani claims the vehicle was carjacked and that he<br \/>\nand Tongo were forced out of the car unharmed before Mrs Dewani<br \/>\nwas driven away and killed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, Tongo turned state witness and, in return for a<br \/>\nreduced sentence, alleged that Dewani paid for his wife to be<br \/>\nkilled.     \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stephen Addison; editing by Michael Holden)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The extradition to South Africa of a British man accused of conspiring to kill his wife in a fake car-jacking during the couple&#8217;s honeymoon in Cape Town was temporarily halted by London&#8217;s High Court on Friday over concerns for his mental health. 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