Dewani driver admits errors

Convicted taxi driver Zola Tongo has admitted making mistakes in telling police how Anni Dewani was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa.

Tongo, 34, made the concessions while being cross-examined by Shrien Dewani’s lawyer, Francois van Zyl, in the Western Cape High Court, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Dewani is accused of the murder of his wife during their honeymoon in Cape Town in November 2010. The entrepreneur, from Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, has pleaded not guilty to murder, kidnap, robbery with aggravating circumstances, conspiracy to commit these crimes and defeating the ends of justice.

The first mistake related to when Dewani allegedly approached him with the proposal to kill his wife, when Tongo dropped the Dewanis off at the Cape Grace Hotel on November 13, 2010. Tongo said that he thought Dewani’s “business proposal” related to tours.

Dewani claims the couple were hijacked as Tongo was driving them through Gugulethu township in his minibus on November 13, 2010. He was released unharmed and Anni driven away. She was found shot dead in the abandoned minibus the next morning.

The prosecution alleges Dewani conspired with others to stage the hijacking in return for €1,075.

Tongo is due to continue giving his evidence tomorrow.