Cape Town:
The murdered wife of bisexual British millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani sent him desperate emails just days after their marriage questioning his “feelings” for her, a South African court heard on Tuesday.
Dewani’s sex life has been a focus of his trial for her murder, with the prosecution arguing that he is gay and hired hitmen to kill her because he wanted to get out of a marriage he felt forced into by family pressures.
“I left my home, family and everything to be with you and three days later you say that if you knew marriages were like this, you wouldn’t have got married,” one email said.
“I don’t want an insecure man or a man whose feelings don’t come naturally that you have to force yourself,” Anni Dewani, 28, wrote on November 5, 2010.
The emails from her smartphone, which were read to the Cape Town High Court by investigating officer Captain Paul Hendrikse, went unanswered, he said.
Days later, on November 13, she was dead.
Dewani, 34, says he and Anni were hijacked while on honeymoon in South Africa by armed men who forced him out of the vehicle before driving off and shooting her.
The driver of the hijacked taxi and one of the hijackers — both serving long jail terms for Anni’s murder — have testified that Dewani hired them for 15,000 rand (Dh4,771) to stage a hijacking and kill his wife.
The Dewanis, both from wealthy families of Indian origin, were married in a lavish ceremony in Mumbai.
