On November 13, 2010, Anni Dewani was on a dream honeymoon in South Africa after celebrating the happiest day of her life, her marriage to handsome husband Shrien.
But the idyllic holiday took a tragic twist when the couple were kidnapped at gunpoint as their taxi drove through a tough township near Cape Town.
Anni was shot in the neck at close range and died on the spot. Her body was found slumped in the blood-soaked back seat of the cab hours later. When news of the horrific murder reached her parents, they were hit by a double hammer blow - not only did they have to deal with the loss of their beloved daughter in the most brutal of circumstances, but police also told them one of the suspects behind the slaying was her husband.
After a long, drawn-out extradition process, Shrien was brought back for trial in South Africa, piling more agony on the victim's distraught family.
Anni Dewani: A Father's Story is her father's incredibly moving account of Anni's life, from her happy childhood through to her lavish wedding to Shrien - which was meant to signal a new life for the 28-year-old - and the dramatic conclusion of her husband's trial in 2014.
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Höhe: 216 mm
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Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-907324-58-1 (9781907324581)
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Shekhar Bhatia is a London based journalist. He has been a staff reporter on several British newspapers including the Sunday Mirror, Evening Standard, The Observer and Daily Express during a 30 year career. He got involved in reporting on the murder of Anni Dewani soon after her shooting and six months later was a producer of Channel Four's Dispatches TV documentary "Murder on Honeymoon" which was filmed in Bristol, London, Sweden and South Africa. Since then, Bhatia has made four more documentaries for the BBC, NBC and Channel Five in South Africa on the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp by Oscar Pistorius and conducted the first TV interview with Reeva's parents.
