(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) London: British businessman Shrien Dewani arrived back home on Wednesday after being cleared by a South African court of murdering his bride during their honeymoon.
Television pictures showed the 34-year-old making his way from his flight to the terminal at London's Gatwick Airport, and then being whisked away in a vehicle at around 7:00 am (0700 GMT), pursued by photographers.
Dewani arrived in Britain before sunrise, having left Cape Town on Tuesday, a day after the high court there cleared him of hiring hitmen to murder 28-year-old Anni Dewani (nee Hindocha) in a Cape Town township during their honeymoon in November 2010.
Prosecutors said Dewani wanted his wife killed because he felt trapped into marriage by family pressures.
Both families are of Indian origin and mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters had sat across the courtroom from each other since the trial began in October.
The judge in the case, Jeanette Traverso, said the state's evidence had "fallen far below" the level needed to secure a conviction.
She said testimony by two men jailed for Anni's murder that Dewani had masterminded the plan was "improbable" and full of contradictions and lies.
Dewani had returned to Britain within days of the murder and fought a three-year legal battle to avoid being extradited to South Africa, claiming he had mental health problems, including depression and post-traumatic stress.
But he was sent back to South Africa in April, where he was found fit to stand trial and was held at a psychiatric hospital for the duration of the trial.
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