MURDER OF ANNI DEWANI
NAME: ANNI DEWANI BORN: 12 MARCH 1982 DISAPPEARED: 13 NOVEMBER 2010 CAUSE OF DEATH: GUNSHOT IN CHEST&NECK NATIONALITY: SWEDISH SPOUSE: SHRIEN DEWANI Anni Ninna Dewani ( née Hindocha ; 12 March 1982 – 13 November 2010) was a Swedish woman of Indian origin who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa after the taxi in which she and her husband Shrien Dewani were traveling was hijacked. Three arrests were made in the days following the crime; hijackers Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni, and hotel receptionist Monde Mbolombo admitted to their involvement in an unintentionally fatal robbery and kidnapping. Facing life in prison, Qwabe and Mbolombo later changed their stories to allege the crime had been a premeditated murder for hire at the behest of Anni's husband Shrien Dewani. Taxi driver Zola Tongo initially claimed to be an innocent victim of the incident, but faced with the weight of evidence implicating him in the crime and in the wake of his fellow conspi