When You May NEED A Wife To Save Face

A happy (and beautiful) young couple at their marriage, or a deluded bride and her gay/bisexual husband contemplating her murder even before the wedding? This case, which has been known as "The Honeymoon Murder", offers at least both of these two possibilities and maybe even some more. Unless the groom, Shrien Dewani, confesses to murder or there shall be found some new evidence, it shall most probable stay that way. 

The handsome, young groom lost his good looks and, sort of, turned into a ghost of his former "I" when his young, and beautiful Swedish-born bride, Anni (1982-2010), was kidnapped and murdered on their honeymoon in South Africa. It's my impression that most people who know about this murder case tend to believe the allegations of the kidnappers and murderers that this special groom wanted his bride dead  and that he hired the South-African criminals to set up a fake kidnapping, but very real murder: Anni was shot dead in the taxa he had ordered. 

This murder plot allegedly was instituted with this man, cab driver Zola Tongo, whom Shrien had hired when the young couple wanted a taxi from the airport to the hotel: That means very soon after the wedding and at the very start if the honeymoon. Why??? Was it a life insurance plot?????? Did Shrien get rich by murdering his bride???????? No, it was even worse: IF he did it, then he plotted to do it from the very beginning: The love, the wedding, the honeymoon - ALL of it was fake in order to placate his family who didn't accept his homosexuality.

It has been proved that Shrien met with men like e.g. the male escort, Leopold Leisser, who became a witness at the trial. However, homosexuality in itself isn't a proof of anything criminal. In this case Shrien's sexuality was considered an indication, but as it wasn't a proof  of anything criminal - neither intent nor action - he was aquitted. Still, there is this lingering suspicion that he chose and sacrificed an innocent, young woman not to loose face with his family which is a thoroughly cold-hearted act if true.

 

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-honeymoon-murder/ 

 

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/anni-dewani-murder-where-is-shrien-dewani-now-2024/ 

 

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-10-20-the-killing-of-anni-planning-a-wedding-and-a-funeral/

 

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/06/shrien-dewani-anni-murder_n_5940440.html 

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gay-escort-who-met-shrien-dewani-for-sex-sessions-reveals-annis-family-thanked-him-for-telling-police-about-their-affair-9928720.html 

 

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