Hotel receptionist says was told about murder plot by Shrien Dewani 'kidnap cabbie'

In latest development in the trial of honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani, hotel receptionist Monde Mbolombo said that he was told about a foreigner who wanted his wife killed.

According to News 24, Mbolombo told prosecutor Shareen Riley that his friend and taxi driver Zola Tongo told him on 13 November 2010, that the tourist had approached him the day before at the airport.

Mbolombo had reportedly met the cab driver in his shuttle taxi the same day to know more about the alleged hit and that is when he learned that the man behind the murder plot was British businessman Shrien Dewani.

As they were speaking, Dewani apparently phoned Tongo and wanted to know where he was, Mbolombo told the court.

Mbolombo said during the trial that Dewani went on further to say that it was not the first time he did this, adding that he had done it before in South Africa and now he wanted to do it again but it should appear as if it is a fake hijacking, the report added.