Shrien Dewani is to be added as the fourth accused in the
honeymoon murder of his bride Anni, the Western Cape High Court
heard on Friday.
Senior State advocate Shareen Riley said Dewani was scheduled to
join two of the other accused in the dock when the trial eventually
got underway.
These two, Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni, appeared briefly
in the High Court on Friday at a pre-trial conference before Judge
Andre le Grange.
In earlier proceedings, the remaining accused, Zola Tonga, was
jailed for 18 years for his part in the murder, in terms of a plea
bargain.
On Friday, Riley asked the court to schedule a second pre-trial
conference for April 13 as judgment was being awaited on Dewani's
appeal in the United Kingdom against an order granted for his
extradition to South Africa.
She said there was as yet no indication when the appeal judgment
would be handed down.
Dewani, while on honeymoon with his wife in December 2010,
allegedly hired three men to kill her in a staged hijacking in Cape
Town's Gugulethu township.
Sapa
