SA justice failed us, says Anni's haunted father

10 September 2015 - 02:09 By Marvin Meintjies

Murdered bride Anni Dewani's father believes she "did not get justice in South Africa". He told the North London Coroner's Court yesterday that Scotland Yard detectives had not been called to give evidence at her husband Shrien Dewani's trial, which collapsed earlier this year, and that the Cape Town High Court had failed to properly interrogate the motive for the murder.But coroner Andrew Walker warned Anni's father, Vinod Hindocha, that the family members might not get the answers they were seeking from an inquest hearing into her death.Walker adjourned the inquest into the death of Anni, who was shot and killed while on honeymoon in South Africa in 2010.Pleading with Walker to continue the inquest, Hindocha said: "I've been tortured for four or five years now and I still don't know why my daughter died. We did not get justice in South Africa."But Walker said that, even if Dewani, who was not present, were to be called there was little likelihood that he would answer questions that might incriminate him."My view is that it [continuing the inquest] would serve no purpose," Walker said, citing laws that provide protection from self-incrimination to people giving evidence in a coroner's court.Walker directed that a set of questions the Hindochas want Dewani to answer be sent to his lawyers.Outside the court Anni's uncle, Ashok Hindocha, said the family had "10 to 15 questions. That is up to Dewani if he wants the family to suffer, if he has pleasure in that".Her father challenged Dewani to "be a man and come forward. Say something"...

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