Anni’s cousin and best friend Sneha will be giving evidence at the trial. They shared their most private and intimate details with one another. She said Anni told her that the lack of intimacy in the relationship with SD bothered her the most. Anni and Sneha thought he was perhaps a virgin or didn’t want sex before marriage.
When SD told Anni that he was receiving hormone treatment for his infertility, Anni broke off the relationship because she wanted children in the future and didn’t want to be pushed away from intimacy. The relationship got back on track in January 2010 when he told her that the treatment was working, he could now be intimate and would be able to have children.
The relationship improved but deteriorated again when he went to Thailand to do a Thai boxing course. He told Anni this would further improve his hormone level. It never occurred to Anni or Sneha that his sexual interests lay elsewhere.
SD testified that even though he had visited male prostitutes, he was still attracted to Anni and had no reason to kill her. Anni would send her daily text messages, emails and phone calls saying she was uncomfortable with SD.
Anni’s parents went to the UK in order for Anni to introduce them to the Dewani family. When the families met, SD’s sister-in-law came down the stairs with a silver tray with a holy relic to bless the relationship, this blessing being a sign they were engaged. This came as a surprise to Anni, her parents and Sneha. The engagement was due to be officially announced later that month. Anni sent SD an email calling off the engagement. SD “urged her to reconsider, professed his love and promised to change his ways” so the engagement went ahead.
From July, Anni sent Sneha further emails describing more doubts, but the wedding preparations continued. She sent Sneha disturbing text messages saying there was a huge amount of animosity between she and SD, she threw her engagement ring at him, said they were fighting all the time and that she slept in the bed but SD chose to sleep on the sofa. However they reconciled and a wedding date was set.
After the first ceremony, Sneha noticed Anni was upset and asked what was wrong. Anni asked her if she thought she looked beautiful because the first thing SD said to her “as she approached him on the red carpet was, ‘your sari is not proper’”. Anni asked Sneha “if we looked in love”. Sneha asked, “Why would you ask me that?” and Anni replied that she and SD had agreed to “act out the rest of the wedding ceremonies”.
Within days of the wedding Anni asked Sneha to help her leave SD. “Then Anni found out she was going to South Africa on her honeymoon. Sneha said, “Anni was calling me on a daily basis explaining she did not want to go anywhere with Dewani, to South Africa or anywhere else, as she wanted a divorce”.
The last time Sneha saw Anni was at a dinner attended by SD and others. She said, “The mood was very tense as Dewani was criticising Anni about her hair colour”’
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