http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/08/shrien-dewani-trial-what-went-wrong
Utter farce, this makes me glad I live in the UK!
What makes it even madder is that the family are now going to try and sue Shrien in the UK for being gay and not telling them before he married their daughter.
The entire trial seems to have hinged on….he’s gay…. so he killed her to get out of the relationship….the police and prosecutors seem to have forced the evidence to fit that narrative, in one of the worst cases of conformation bias I’ve ever read about.
Part of the reasoning is that someone already convicted for the murder told someone in prison that he concocted the story of the husband paying for the murder to cover up for the fact it was a robbery that had gone wrong. Neither of the two people in prison had anything to gain from sharing this information so it does seem to be significant in that it explains away many of the other factors of the case.
A plea bargain in return for testimony is perfect motivation for concocting a story, I can’t even believe this kind of evidence is admissible.
The statement that the court didn’t find him innocent missed the point of the court’s decision, I think – that there was insufficient evidence from the prosecution that any court could have accepted.
Innocent until proven guilty.