Dewani murder trial: ‘He wanted it done that night’

A convicted hitman allegedly hired to kill the wife of honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani said he was told to stage a hijacking-gone-wrong in which the British husband escaped unharmed.

Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 29, came face-to-face with Anni Dewani’s family as he told the Western Cape High Court in South Africa: “There was a husband who wanted his wife to be killed.”

Qwabe was contacted by Zola Tongo, the Dewanis’ taxi driver in Cape Town, the day before the killing.