A JUDGE has found a South African man guilty of killing Swedish newlywed Anni Dewani while she was on her honeymoon in Cape Town two years ago, amid claims her husband organised the hit.
"I'm satisfied that the accused has committed the crime of murder," Judge Robert Henney told the High Court on Monday, delivering the verdict against Xolile Mngeni.
Dewani, a Swede of Indian origin, had been married for just two weeks when she was killed in November 2010, in what prosecutors said was a faked hijacking.
Henney told the High Court that Mngeni, a suspected small-time drug dealer, had plotted with two co-accused to carry out the premeditated murder for 15,000 rand (now $A1650).
Henney convicted the 25-year-old of firing the shot that killed Dewani, robbery with aggravating circumstances and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Dewani's husband Shrien Dewani is accused of orchestrating the hit, but has protested his innocence and is fighting extradition to South Africa.
The judge did not rule on Shrien's alleged culpability, focusing on the role of Mngeni.
Dewani was killed by a single gunshot while travelling in the back of the car with her British husband.
"During this incident, the deceased was shot once through the neck by the accused as a result of which, she died," said Henney, who said the co-accused had planned the murder to appear a car hijacking.
Two local men already jailed over the killing have fingered Shrien as their paymaster.
Mngeni, who has undergone surgery for a brain tumour and needed a walking frame to move to and from the dock, appeared unmoved as the verdict was handed down.
He had pleaded not guilty to killing the bride, but admitted that his palm print was on the car in which Dewani's lifeless body was found in a poor Cape Town township and had also pointed out key scenes to police.
The judge dismissed Mngeni's version of the night's events as "riddled with improbabilities, inconsistencies and untruths" and his testimony as "dishonest".
Shrien Dewani is being treated at a secure mental hospital in the English city of Bristol ahead of a court decision on his extradition.
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