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Shrien Dewani appeared in court as the trial got under way
British businessman Shrien Dewani has formally pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife on their honeymoon in South Africa in 2010.
Mr Dewani, from Bristol, is accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife Anni.
The couple were held at gunpoint while being driven in a taxi through Gugulethu township near Cape Town.
Mr Dewani, 34, was thrown from the car. The body of Mrs Dewani, 28, was found the next day in the abandoned taxi with a single gunshot wound to the neck.
The trial at the Western Cape High Court is expected to last until December.
Speaking at a press conference ahead of the trial, Anni's father Vinod Hindocha said he wanted answers from his estranged son-in-law.
"I'm back in Cape Town today where my daughter was killed four years ago," he said.
"Now that I'm here, all I ask for is the full story and justice.
"I am confident that South Africa will conduct a fair and open trial of Shrien Dewani."
In 2012, three men were convicted in connection with Mrs Dewani's death. South African prosecutors allege the millionaire businessman ordered the killing of his wife, who was a Swedish national.
At the scene - BBC reporter Andrew Plant in Cape Town
The court opened at 9.30am this morning, before the full heat of the South African sun could fully beat down on the crowds waiting outside.
Dozens pushed to the front of the queue - local people looking for a place in the small public gallery, and knowing that every seat would be quickly taken up.
Anni's family arrived first, filmed by 50 cameras as they walked into the entrance. Then Shrien's family followed five minutes later. The families haven't spoken since the earliest days of this four-year murder investigation.
Dozens of journalists are left outside of the courtroom - it's simply not large enough for them all to watch proceedings inside.
And the trial isn't in the biggest courtroom here either. The justice service here is anxious that Shrien's Dewani be protected as far as possible from the media gaze, worried that his mental state is fragile, and any relapse into depression may further delay a trial that has taken so long to come to court.
South African Xolile Mngeni was convicted of premeditated murder for shooting Mrs Dewani and jailed for life.
Prosecutors claimed he was hired to carry out the killing.
The couple's taxi driver, Zola Tongo, was jailed for 18 years after he admitted his part in the killing and another accomplice, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, also pleaded guilty to murder and was jailed for 25 years.
The start of proceedings in a South African court follows a legal battle of nearly four years by the country's prosecuting authorities to bring Mr Dewani to trial.
He was arrested in December 2010 at the request of the South African authorities, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, who said they would initiate extradition procedures.
Mr Dewani said he would not consent to being extradited.
As a result, a legal battle took place on the grounds that Mr Dewani was not fit to stand trial and amid concern that he would be mistreated in a South African prison.
He was detained in a hospital having been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Later, when Mr Dewani's health improved, a judge ruled he could be extradited and, despite winning a right to appeal to the Supreme Court, he was put on a plane to Cape Town in April.
Since then he has been held at the Valkenberg hospital unit awaiting trial.
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