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" A court has heard today that Shrien Dewani was framed for murder by his wife&amp;#039;s killers, after their attempt to kidnap her and blackmail him for a ransom went wrong and she was accidentally shot. Shrien, whose wife Anni was murdered on their honeymoon in South Africa in November 2010, is currently standing trial in Cape Town for plotting her murder. However, this new information, delivered by defence lawyer Francois van Zyl, threatens to collapse the case against him. According to van Zyl, convict Bernard Mitchell confessed that he&amp;#039;d had a conversation with the taxi driver, Zola Tongo - who is currently serving a murder sentence after admitting his part in the death of Anni Dewani - while they were both in prison. Mitchell had been located in a cell near to Tongo while he was serving time for an unrelated crime, and during their time in prison together, the taxi driver had apparently admitted that Mrs. Dewani was in fact shot by accident. Tongo reportedly explained to Mitchell that the original plan was to kidnap Anni Dewani, and to ask Shrien for ransom money to release his wife. But during her kidnap, Anni&amp;#039;s captors begun arguing over what to do with her, which was where it turned fatal. Lawyer van Zyl told Tongo during his cross-examination: &amp;quot;When your accusers were on the way with her to the place where they wanted to hold her hostage, one of them wanted to rape her. A quarrel ensued and she was shot.&amp;quot;  The court heard that the killers then planned to blackmail Shrien Dewani, by threatening to blame him for the murder if he refused to pay them a substantial amount of money, but upon receiving advice that this was unlikely to work, they decided to frame him for plotting the murder. Van Zyl said that his witness, Mitchell, claimed Tongo told him that while the world suspected Mr. Dewani of planning the murder of his new wife - potentially because he was gay or bisexual and wanted out of the marriage - in reality, he had &amp;quot;done nothing&amp;quot;. But Zola Tongo vehemently denied such claims, which would place more blame on his shoulders for the murder if found to be true. He rubbished Benrard Mitchell&amp;#039;s claims, calling them &amp;quot;nonsense and lies&amp;quot;, and saying they were simply thought up by someone who &amp;quot;saw this on television&amp;quot;. Zola and two other South African criminals have all admitted their roles in the murder of Anni Dewani, and are all testifying against Shrien either in exchange for immunity from prosecution, or for reduced sentences. So it would make sense that they wouldn&amp;#039;t want claims such as these to come out in court. It remains to be seen if the judge in the case will take the allegations seriously, and Shrien will be found innocent. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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