Cabbie Found Guilty of Killing Bride During Honeymoon After Being Paid Off By Hubby!

A lawyer for a man sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering a young bride on her honeymoon in Capetown, South Africa, said the woman's husband paid hit men to have her killed. 

Zola Tongo, a cabbie who was convicted of killing Anni Dewani, 28, said the woman's husband, Shrien Dewani, offered him more than $2,000 to carry out the grisly hit on his beautiful young bride.

"Coming from a taxi driver who admitted to playing a part in murdering his wife, I think it should be treated with the contempt it deserves," Max Clifford told Sky News. "Let's see what evidence there is to back up these accusations.”

Clifford said that authorities had not contacted his client, and South African authorities would not confirm that they were considering Dewani a suspect in his wife's murder, according to The Associated Press.

Anni Dewani was shot dead on Nov. 13 during what her husband said was a carjacking and kidnapping as the couple took an evening tour of a dangerous neighborhood in Cape Town normally considered off limits for tourists.

Dewani was kicked out of the car during the attack, but said the thugs had sped off with his new bride still in the car. She was found the next morning in an abandoned taxi with a gunshot wound to the back of the neck. The couple had married in India two weeks before arriving in South Africa.