Anni Dewani

The Hindocha family was forced to leave Uganda in the early 1970s after the country's president, Idi Amin, expelled all Asians living there.

They were granted residence in Sweden and settled in Mariestad, where their daughter Anni was born and raised.

Anni Ninna Dewani ( Hindocha; 12 March 1982 – 13 November 2010) was a Swedish woman of Indian origin who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa after the taxi in which she and her husband Shrien Dewani were traveling was hijacked.

Three arrests were made in the days following the crime; hijackers Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni, and hotel receptionist Monde Mbolombo admitted to their involvement in an unintentionally fatal robbery and kidnapping.

Facing life in prison, Qwabe and Mbolombo later changed their stories to allege the crime had been a premeditated murder for hire at the behest of Anni's husband Shrien Dewani.

Taxi driver Zola Tongo initially claimed to be an innocent victim of the incident, but faced with the weight of evidence implicating him in the crime and in the wake of his fellow conspirators' allegations of a "murder for hire" plot, he too changed his story to allege the husband was the instigator.

Plea bargains were offered to the conspirators in exchange for future testimony in legal proceedings related to the crime.

The allegation of the husband's involvement made global headlines; Shrien Dewani's supporters denied the accusations, saying it was "ludicrous" to suggest he had solicited an attack on his wife from the first taxi driver he met within hours of their arrival in Cape Town.

Anni Hindocha met Shrien Dewani in London in 2009; they maintained a long-distance relationship until Hindocha moved to the UK in March 2010, where they became engaged in May that year.

Zola Tongo pleaded guilty to murder in December 2010 and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

The couple, whose relationship was sometimes troubled, married at Lake Powai near Mumbai, India, on 29 October 2010.

After landing at Cape Town International Airport on 7 November 2010, Dewani and her husband took a domestic flight and stayed at the Kruger National Park for four nights.

On 12 November, the couple returned to Cape Town International Airport, where they met and engaged taxi driver Zola Tongo to drive them to the five-star Cape Grace Hotel.

On 13 November, having retained Tongo as a tour guide, the couple were driven through the city in his Volkswagen Sharan into Gugulethu.

Tongo drove to Surfside Restaurant in the Strand suburb, where the couple dined.

After their meal, Tongo drove the Dewanis back into Gugulethu.

Shortly after they had turned off the main road, two armed men hijacked the vehicle.

After driving a short distance, Tongo was ejected from the taxi.

Shrien Dewani was robbed of his money, wallet, designer watch and mobile telephone, and after being driven for about 20 minutes, he was also ejected from the vehicle.

On the street, a bystander assisted him by calling the police.

At 07:50 on 14 November, in Lingelethu West, Anni Dewani was found dead in the back of the VW Sharan taxi.

She had suffered a single gunshot wound to her neck.

Police later confirmed Anni's Giorgio Armani wristwatch, a white-gold and diamond bracelet, her handbag and her BlackBerry mobile telephone were missing, and assumed they were stolen.

The items stolen in the robbery had an estimated value of South African rand R90,000 (USD ).

The post-mortem examination revealed bruising on her inner leg, indicating she had been involved in a struggle.

It also indicated she had died from a single gunshot that passed through her hand and neck, severing an artery.

There was no sign of sexual assault.

On 17 November, Dewani's body was released by the South African authorities and returned to the United Kingdom on a British Airways flight, accompanied by her husband.

Six months after her death, in a Hindu ceremony, her family scattered her ashes in her favourite area of the Vänern lake, close to her home town, Mariestad, Sweden.

As a result of a palm print found on the abandoned taxi, Xolile Mngeni was arrested on Tuesday 16 November 2010.

Mngeni made a videotaped confession in the presence of Captain Jonker of the South African Police Service, admitting involvement in a hijack, armed robbery and kidnapping operation.

He described Shrien and Anni Dewani as victims and said Qwabe shot Anni Dewani during a struggle for her handbag.

They were planning to hold a civil ceremony in the UK in 2011 for friends who could not attend their wedding in India.

Mziwamadoda Qwabe pleaded guilty to murder in August 2012 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Xolile Mngeni was tried and convicted of murder in November 2012 and was sentenced to life in prison.

Monde Mbolombo admitted his involvement but was offered immunity in exchange for testimony against the other men alleged to have been involved in the crime.

South African prosecutors formulated charges against Shrien Dewani based on the later-discredited confessions of Tongo, Qwabe and Mbolombo, who were found to have committed perjury.

Charges were brought on the basis Anni had been the victim of a premeditated kidnapping and murder for hire that was staged to appear like a random carjacking, allegedly arranged by her husband.

Following a long legal battle, Shrien was extradited from the UK to South Africa to face trial.

He was acquitted by a Western Cape High Court in December 2014.