So close: Anni, on the left, with her cousin and best friend Sneha Hindochna - who was in daily contact with Anni throughout the honeymoon The woman who holds the key to the secrets of Anni Dewani’s turbulent relationship with her husband told police she believed he was lying about the sequence of events surrounding her murder. Sneha Hindocha, Anni’s cousin and best friend, said she was suspicious of millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani’s claim that his bride wanted to visit a township in South Africa late at night on their honeymoon. In a sensational witness statement, Sneha – who was in daily contact with Anni throughout the honeymoon – insisted Anni thought the wedding was a sham and Dewani was controlling and refused to have sex.
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Sneha Hindocha, Anni's cousin, told police she believed Dewani was lying
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She was suspicious of his claim that his bride wanted to visit a township
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The 30-year-old was in daily contact with Anni throughout the honeymoon
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In her sensational witness statement she claims the wedding was a sham
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Said Dewani spoke of wanting to turn Anni from 'ugly duckling into a swan'
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Anni would not want to visit a township on her honeymoon, or in the middle of the night. ‘She was elegant and sophisticated... it was not that she looked down on people but she never would have wanted to do that.’
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Dewani’s first words to his bride on their wedding day were: ‘Your sari is not proper.’
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He scolded his new bride for leaving clothes unfolded in their honeymoon suite.
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Anni told her that the couple were ‘acting’ all the way through their wedding ceremony.
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Dewani blamed his lack of interest in sex on infertility treatment –and went on a Thai boxing course to ‘raise his hormone level’.
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He spoke of wanting to turn Anni from an ‘ugly duckling into a swan’.
Sneha goes on: ‘I then asked, “Why would you ask me that?” and Anni replied that she and @placeholder had agreed to “act out the rest of the wedding ceremonies”.’