Annie Dewani murderer gets life imprisonment

A ‘merciless and evil’ South African man who murdered Anni Dewani - a Swedish with Indian origin on a honeymoon - in 2010, allegedly at the behest of her UK-based NRI husband, was on Wednesday sentenced for life. Xolile Mngeni, 25, was found guilty of firing the shot that killed 28-year-old Anni who had been married for just a fortnight when she was killed here in November 2010, in what prosecutors say was a faked hijacking. Sentencing Mngeni, Judge Robert Henney said he was a ‘merciless and evil person’ who had ‘committed an act of premeditated murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances’ and deserved the maximum sentence.