LONDON: Shrien Dewani, the British businessman whose Indian-origin wife was shot dead while the couple was on honeymoon in South Africa, has been arrested in Britain on suspicion of conspiring to murder her, a media report said on Wednesday.
Police detained Dewani on behalf of the South African authorities, the Daily Telegraph reported. He surrendered at a Bristol police station and was arrested on Tuesday under a provisional arrest warrant issued earlier in the evening on suspicion of conspiring to murder Anni Dewani.
Anni, the 28-year-old engineering graduate of Ugandan-Indian descent from Sweden, was killed in Cape Town on November 13 when two men hijacked the car she and her Indian-origin British husband were travelling in. Dewani, 30, is due to appear in custody at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
The businessman faces extradition to South Africa after prosecutors there claimed he had offered to pay £1,400 to have his wife murdered, the report said.
Dewani allegedly offered a taxi driver £1,400 to arrange for his new wife Anni to be shot dead in a staged carjacking, according to claims outlined by a prosecutor in South Africa.
Dewani, who owns a chain of care homes, called the accusations "ludicrous". Dewani, from Bristol, and his bride were honeymooning in South Africa.
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