Shrien Dewani arrives in the dock to face trial over the honeymoon murder of his new bride Anni

Shrien Dewani is finally facing justice over his alleged role in the shooting of his new bride today as his murder trial is scheduled to begin.

The parents of murdered Anni Dewani will be sitting just feet away from the dock as the wealthy care home owner is expected to enter pleas to a string of charges including murder, kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice.

Vinod and Nilma Hindocha have described as 'torture' their almost four-year wait to hear how their daughter was killed on her honeymoon, her body found in an abandoned car on the edge of a South African township.

Mrs Dewani's sister Ami, brother Anish, uncle Ashok and cousin Nishma are also expected to attend the hearing at the High Court in Cape Town, a few miles from where she was killed in November 2010.

Swedish Mrs Dewani, an engineer, died from a single gunshot to the neck after the taxi she and her new husband were being driven in was 'carjacked' by two armed men in Gugulethu, a township outside town.

Dewani and the driver escaped unharmed while Mrs Dewani was driven off alone.

The driver and two other men have already been jailed over the fatal shooting – at least one of them, driver Zola Tongo, is expected to give evidence at Dewani's trial.

He told his own murder trial how Dewani promised him R15,000 (£850) in return for having his new wife killed.

Prosecutors are expected to say that Tongo recruited two men to stage a 'carjacking' as a cover for the contract killing.

Bristol-based Dewani, 34, who was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression after his wife's death, launched a protracted legal battle which lasted more than three years to avoid facing justice in South Africa.

But in April, a panel of High Court judges quashed his appeal against an earlier judgement and ruled he was fit to stand trial.

Much of the evidence presented in court is also likely to prove excruciating for Dewani's own family, who will be sitting close to the parents of his alleged victim in the cramped court room.

The two families, once close, have not been in contact since Dewani's arrest more than three years ago.

South African prosecutors are expected to say at the Western Cape High Court to say that Mr Dewani was a closet homosexual who ordered his 28 year old wife's death to escape from a marriage he felt pressured into by convention and his family.

According to statements to police made by a male prostitute, Dewani lived a double life in which he paid for sadomasochistic sex, fuelled by drugs and bondage paraphernalia.

Leopold Leisser, who styles himself the German Master, claims Dewani paid for three sex sessions during which he asked to be slapped and verbally abused with racially insulting slang.
We are not going to get Anni back, we know that, but we need to know the truth so we can move on with our lives.'

Mrs Dewani's grieving father said he believed the South African authorities have a strong case against his son-in-law.

'Three people are already convicted and all their fingers are pointing at him,' Mr Hindocha, 65, said. 'He has to answer these questions, he never has.

'They have been convicted and that must mean they are telling the truth. The suggestions of that police forced them to confess are total rubbish in my view.'

The trial is expected to last at least two months.

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