It would be difficult to locate the key alibi witness of a man on trial for the murder of tourist Anni Dewani, the High Court has heard.
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Cape Town - It would be difficult to locate the key alibi witness of a man on trial for the murder of tourist Anni Dewani, the Western Cape High Court heard on Tuesday.
Xolile Mngeni, 25, said his girlfriend, who was with him the night of the murder, now lived in Johannesburg.
He said that when he became ill with a brain tumour, he lost her telephone number and lost contact with her.
Judge Robert Henney asked if he would be able to show the police where her family stayed in Khayelitsha to get her phone number and her new address.
“No, I don't have a problem [with that]. I'll be able to tell him where her mother stays, but the problem is I don't know her mother and she doesn't know me,” Mngeni testified during cross-examination.
He said he might be able to point out her brother.
Mngeni has pleaded not guilty to robbing, hijacking and killing Dewani in Gugulethu, on November 13, 2010.
He testified on Monday that he was with his girlfriend, her friend and her friend's boyfriend the night of the murder. They chatted into the early hours of the morning.
However, on Tuesday he said he and his girlfriend left the other couple around 8pm on the Saturday, and made their way to a nearby shack.
“For a young man on a Saturday night, that is very early,” Henney said.
The trial continues. - Sapa