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British millionaire on trial for wife’s honeymoon murder

– Justice and closure –

Anni’s family said it has been “a period of torture” since her death.

“All I ask for is the full story and justice,” Anni’s father Vinod Hindocha told reporters in Cape Town on Sunday.

Another family member, Anni’s uncle Ashok Hindocha, said they hoped the trial would help them get on with their lives.

“We are not going to get Anni back … but we need to know the truth so we can move on,” he told a news conference. READ: S.Africa charges extradited Dewani with honeymoon murder.

Dewani fought a long legal battle to avoid being extradited from Britain to South Africa, claiming he had mental health problems, including depression and post-traumatic stress.

But an assessment by South African psychiatric experts found he was “not mentally ill” and “fit to stand trial”.

The prosecution is expected to argue that Dewani is gay and plotted to have his wife killed to escape an arranged marriage that he was pushed into by his family.

Both Dewani and Anni are of Indian origin, from what news reports have described as devout Hindu families.

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Contents of two statements to the police by Anni’s cousin and by a Birmingham male prostitute, and leaked to the media, make startling claims of Anni’s unhappy engagement to Dewani.

Anni’s cousin Sneha Hindocha in a statement cited by South Africa’s The Sunday Independent, chronicles a rocky 17-month courtship where Anni repeatedly felt sexually rejected by Dewani.

A 40-year-old gay prostitute, Leopold Leisser, claimed in a separate statement that Dewani was his client.

Leisser, according to the Saturday Star, also alleged that Dewani had told him he was getting married to a “lovely girl”, but he needed “to find a way out of it.”

The defence is likely to paint a picture of a happy newlywed couple.

It is yet unclear how many witnesses both sides will call during the trial.

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