An Indian-origin British billionaire businessman, accused of being the mastermind behind the brutal murder of his Indo-Swedish wife while they were on honeymoon in South Africa in 2010, on Monday pleaded not guilty to the crime and admitted he was bisexual.
Shrien Dewani’s trial started in the Cape Town High Court on Monday after he was brought here in April following a lengthy extradition battle that saw him being sent for psychiatric treatment in the UK and South Africa.
Dewani, 34, confessed in a statement read out on his behalf by his lawyer Francois Van Zyl to having had sexual interactions with both men and women physically and through email chats, including with male prostitute leopold leisser, who will testify about this for the state.
leisser claimed that Dewani paid him for sex in the months leading up to the shooting, telling him he regretted his engagement with Anni but was too ashamed to back out due to family pressure, Independent reported.
“I consider myself to be bisexual,” the court was told. “My sexual interactions with males were mostly physical experiences or email chats with people I met online or in clubs, including prostitutes,” Dewani’s witness statement said.