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3 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 07:27 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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South African police want to extradite Shrien Dewani, 31, from Bristol, for his alleged role in the death of his wife Anni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

An extradition hearing has been told a man accused of ordering his wife’s murder on their honeymoon “needed a way out” of the marriage.<\/p>\n

A barrister for the South African government said a witness had spoken of two meetings with Shrien Dewani, 31.<\/p>\n

The South African authorities want to extradite Mr Dewani, from Bristol, to face charges.<\/p>\n

His bride, Anni, 28, was shot when the couple’s taxi was apparently hijacked in Cape Town last November.<\/p>\n

The hearing, at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in south-east London, was told that the witness recalled having met the care home owner in September 2009.<\/p>\n

Then in April 2010, Mr Dewani is said to have told him he was about to be engaged and how he “had to get married”.<\/p>\n

He is alleged to have said she was a nice, lovely girl whom he liked, but he could not break out of the engagement because he would be disowned by his family and “he needed to find a way out of it.”<\/p>\n

Bullet in neck<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Dewani, who denies any wrongdoing, is on bail but is being held at a mental health hospital in Bristol.<\/p>\n

Mrs Dewani was found dead in the back of the abandoned vehicle with a bullet wound to her neck, after the hijacking.<\/p>\n

Taxi driver Zola Tongo had taken the newlyweds to the deprived township.<\/p>\n

Tongo originally claimed his vehicle was held up and he and Dewani were ejected before Mrs Dewani was driven away and killed.<\/p>\n

But in a plea bargain later, the taxi driver – who was jailed for 18 years for admitting his role in the murder – claimed Mr Dewani offered him cash to arrange the killing.<\/p>\n

Mr Dewani is said to be suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n

The three-day extradition hearing is to be split into two parts, with further time allowed for a psychiatric report on Mr Dewani to be carried out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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