Anni Dewani

The Department of Correctional Services has confirmed the parole, from Tuesday, of the killer of British bride Anni Dewani. Zola Tongo was sentenced to an ...

Dewani, a British businessman, was acquitted of the murder and returned to his country. That is when his sentence will expire.” The Department of Correctional Services has confirmed the parole, from Tuesday, of the killer of British bride Anni Dewani. Zola Tongo was sentenced to an 18-year jail term in December 2010 for shooting the young bride in Gugulethu in Cape Town.

Zola Tongo, now 42, was convicted for his part in the murder after he pleaded guilty to hiring two men to kill Anni, 28, in Gugulethu township, ...

She suffered a single gunshot to her neck after her husband fled the taxi which was later found abandoned with her body in it This document was read out in court at the start of my trial.' But Tongo was sentenced to 18 years in prison whilst hitman Mziwamadoda Qwabe also pleaded guilty to murder and is serving a 25-year sentence. Her husband Dewani was cleared of all charges in 2014. He is now set to be released from prison on June 21 after successful pleading for parole Anni was killed in the back of a taxi on honeymoon with her new husband in a Cape Town township on November 13 2010. Anni Dewani was killed in the back of Tongo's taxi, suffering a single gunshot to her neck after her husband fled the taxi which was later found abandoned with her body in it Tongo was visited in his cell and was grilled face-to-face to reveal the truth of what happened but he gave nothing away and Anni's family demanded South African authorities revoked his parole. The taxi driver pleaded guilty to his part in the murder, and was sentenced to 18 years. The family of the honeymoon bride said they were ‘disappointed’ that her killer was now a free man and believe he is hiding the truth about how her murder was planned. Zola Tongo, now 42, was convicted for his part in the murder after he pleaded guilty to hiring two men to kill Anni, 28, in Gugulethu township, near Cape Town on November 13, 2010. - Anni Dewani, 28, was murdered while on her honeymoon after the taxi in which she and her husband were in was hijacked near Cape Torn in November 2010

Zola Tongo, who helped orchestrate the honeymoon murder of Anni Dewani in 2010, has been released eight years after he was convicted of killing the ...

This is a disgrace to the country, a disgrace to the justice system. He is a good actor anyway, he has managed to fool the parole board. He doesn’t deserve to be outside. In 2016, he wrote a letter to a London coroner claiming the three convicted men had lied and he was the victim of an attempt to frame him. Shrien, who has always denied plotting to murder his new bride and didn't give evidence at his trial, was acquitted by a judge in South Africa in December 2014 after she blasted the prosecution's evidence as unreliable. The now 41-year-old was due to be freed from Malmesbury prison on July 28, but on July 27 he was told he would remain behind bars and his parole was being reviewed.

Anni Dewani's family says Zola Tongo's parole sends a message that you can commit crime in SA but you won't spend time in jail for it.

We wanted to cross examine Shrien Dewani so he can tell us why they killed Anni if he was indeed involved, but we never got a chance to do so.”Anni Dewani’s uncle However Shrien stood trial and was acquitted of Anni’s murder and returned to his country. Shrien and Anni Dewani

THE family of murdered honeymoon bride Anni Dewani have slammed the release of her “lowlife” killer after serving just eight years in prison.Anni,

During the trial he revealed he had been visiting gay prostitutes and was bisexual – his sexuality had not been disclosed to his or Anni’s family at the time of his wedding. I don’t wish him well.’ “We gave him the opportunity to tell us what he has been hiding and who he has been protecting, but he refused,” Ashok said. Ashok said the family believe Tongo has more information about what happened to Anni than he has told the police. Tongo was alleged to have hired two hitmen on the orders of her British millionaire husband Shrien on their honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa in 2010. THE family of murdered honeymoon bride Anni Dewani have slammed the release of her “lowlife” killer after serving just eight years in prison.

A taxi driver who planned the murder of honeymoon bride Anni Dewani in South Africa has been freed from jail after just eight years.

During the trial he revealed he had been visiting gay prostitutes and was bisexual – his sexuality had not been disclosed to his or Anni’s family at the time of his wedding. I don’t wish him well.’ “We gave him the opportunity to tell us what he has been hiding and who he has been protecting, but he refused,”