The family of Anni Dewani have pleaded with her British husband to 'tell the truth' about what happened.
Vinod Hindocha, Mrs Dewani's father, wept on Sunday as he described the four year wait for answers about how his 'beautiful daughter' died as Mr Dewani fought extradition back to South Africa to stand trial.
'It has been a period of torture and we have missed her each and every minute of each and every day,' he said. 'Now that I am back here, all I ask for is the full story and justice.'
Swedish Mrs Dewani, a 28-year-old engineer, died from a single gunshot to the neck after the taxi she and her husband were travelling in was approached by two armed men in Gugulethu, a township outside the city, on November 13 2010.
The South African authorities asked for Mr Dewani to be sent back to the country to stand trial after the couple's taxi driver turned state witness, claiming he had recruited the two hijackers on the instructions of Mr Dewani. All three men have already been jailed over the fatal shooting.
Mr Dewani was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression after the incident. But in April this year he was extradited after a panel of High Court judges quashed his appeal against an earlier judgment and ruled he was fit to stand trial.
Since then, he has been treated as an inpatient at Cape Town's Valkenberg Hospital, where psychiatrists have confirmed he is of sufficiently sound mind to face the court.
South African prosecutors are expected to say at the Western Cape High Court tomorrow that Mr Dewani was a closet homosexual who ordered his wife's death to escape from a marriage he felt pressured into by convention and his family.
Mr Hindocha, who will attend court with his wife Nilam, his daughter Ami, son Anish, brother Ashok and niece Nishma, said he was confident the South African authorities would conduct a 'fair and open trial'.
Speaking to The Telegraph, he said there was little doubt Mr Dewani had a strong case to answer.
'Three people are already convicted and all their fingers are pointing at him,' he said. 'He has to answer these questions, he never has. They have been convicted and that must mean they are telling the truth. The suggestions of that police forced them to confess are total rubbish in my view.'
Ashok Hindocha, Mrs Dewani's uncle who acts as spokesman for her family, said their grief had been exacerbated by Mr Dewani's legal battle.
'We have been let down for four years,' he said. 'For four years this case has been about anything but Anni. We go to court every month, fly thousands of miles every year. It has been very hard on us.'
He appealed directly to Mr Dewani, who left the country three days after his wife's death and has never spoken to the police: 'Tell us what happened in court so we can go on with our lives. We are not going to get Anni back, we know that, but we need to know the truth so we can move on.'
Mr Dewani, 35, denies charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder, kidnapping, and defeating the ends of justice.
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