Dewani Victim Of 'Witch Hunt' Over Wife's Death

Businessman Shrien Dewani says he became the victim of a "witch hunt" after a gang who killed his wife were allowed to "get away with murder".

Mr Dewani was cleared last year of orchestrating the honeymoon killing of Anni Dewani in Cape Town in 2010.

In a letter to North London Coroner’s Court, he wrote that he still has a "significant number of questions that remain unanswered" about the night his wife was shot dead and that he "shared the frustrations" of her family.

Mr Dewani was responding to correspondence from a coroner who concluded earlier on Friday that there was not "sufficient cause to resume an inquest" into Mrs Dewani's death.

Criticising the South African authorities, Mr Dewani said: "Each of the gang members did a deal with the authorities to gain either full immunity or vastly reduced sentences in return for providing evidence against me.

"It is the evidence of these proven liars that led to a witch hunt against me and the resulting failure to pursue the truth of what happened that night."

He added that the evidence of the killers was not corroborated in "any meaningful way" - allowing them to "literally get away with murder".

Three local men were jailed for the murder.

Although the letter was not made public at the hearing, Mr Dewani's family made a copy of it available.

A judge threw out the case against him last year because it was "riddled with inconsistencies".

He walked free before he was asked to give evidence and so has never spoken publicly about his wife's death.