The family of Swedish-Indian Anni Dewani, who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa, have filed a complaint with the BBC over a documentary that casts doubts over her husband's role in the incident.
Police have accused her husband, Shrien, of hiring a team of hit men to kill 28-year-old Anni, while holidaying in Cape Town in November 2010. However, the 33-year-old Bristol-based businessman, fighting against his extradition from UK to South Africa, has always maintained that he was forced from a taxi by carjackers who drove off with his wife and killed her.
But a new BBC documentary, to be telecast on Thursday, cast doubts over his involvement, based on fresh ballistic evidence and CCTV footage. Anni's family is upset as they were not asked to take part in the documentary and an apparent decision of the BBC to re-use previous interviews with family members, which they say is in breach of the corporation's guidelines.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, Anni's uncle, Ashok Hindocha, has written to BBC director-general lord Hall about the family's concerns and accused the corporation of acting callously and insensitively.