Shrien Dewani's South Africa extradition case burned hole in Brit taxpayers' pockets

Shrien Dewani's South Africa extradition case cost British taxpayers a hefty 2,50,000 dollars.

According to Mirror, the Crown Prosecution Service spent 87,908 pounds on QCs and 48,612 ponds on junior counsel for the extradition process of Dewani, who was accused of plotting the murder of his wife on their honeymoon.

The total money spent on Dewani's psychiatric reports went up to 23,464 dollars.

The CPS said its solicitors, who are paid 69 pounds an hour, spent 496 hours on the case, adding up to 34,000 pounds to the overall expenditure in the case.

The report said that police, transport, medical and other costs are likely to push the total bill to a quarter of a million pounds.

The Cape Town High Court threw out honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani's case and cleared him of all charges after the prosecution failed to prove his role in his wife's murder.

The British millionaire was accused of orchestrating the murder of Anni during their honeymoon in Cape Town in November 2010.

Judge Jeanette Traverso said that the evidence presented by the state in the case fell "far below the threshold" of what a reasonable court could convict on and that it was "riddled with contradictions," reported the BBC.

The judge said that the only reason to not clear Dewani of the murder charges would be in the hope that he would implicate himself by giving evidence.

She added that the onus to prove that Dewani had entered into an agreement to have Anni killed was on the state.

The prosecution had claimed that Dewani had hired men to kill Anni for 15,000 rand. However, the judge said that taxi driver Zola Tongo and accomplices Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni were "intelligent men" and dismissed the state's claim that they could have murdered someone for a contract worth "a few thousand rand."

Dewani denied all the charges throughout the trial and claimed that the two were hijacked at gunpoint as they drove through Gugulethu in a taxi.

He escaped unharmed but his wife's body was found in the abandoned car the next day.