Hitman ‘hired by husband’ guilty of newlywed’s murder

A hitman accused of pulling the trigger in the murder of newlywed Anni Dewani during her South African honeymoon has been convicted of murder.

Prosecutors believe Xolile Mngeni was hired by Ms Dewani’s British husband, Shrien, to carry out the killing in an attack designed to resemble a car hijacking in Cape Town’s impoverished Gugulethu township.

Mngeni, 25, was found guilty of premeditated murder yesterday after a judge at the Western Cape High Court heard an “avalanche of evidence” against him.