Johannesburg - National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele confirmed on Saturday that police are investigating a link between the 2007 murder of an Eastern Cape doctor and tourist Anni Dewani, SABC news reported.
"This after Dewani's husband Shrien allegedly told state witness, Zola Tongo, that he had arranged a murder in a fake hijacking in South Africa before," the SABC news service said.
Media reports said Dr Pox Raghavjee's - who was apparently murdered in 2007 in King William's Town - widow knew Shrien Dewani and drove to Cape Town to comfort him after the death of his wife.
Cele was doing a walkabout at the Cape Gate Mall in Brakenfell outside Cape Town when he informed the media of the investigation into the link.
He also said a fourth suspect named as a "middleman" by Tongo is in reach of police when needed, the SABC reported.
The British businessman is accused of arranging the murder of his wife, 28-year-old Anni, in Cape Town. The woman was found dead in the back of an abandoned taxi with a bullet wound in her neck on November 13.
Dewani was released on bail on Friday while authorities in South Africa want the 30-year-old British citizen extradited for the hearing to be held here.
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