Anni Dewani told sister of Dewani's 'sex ban'

Just a week before British millionaire Shrien Dewani's final extradition hearing, British media are reporting that his murdered Swedish bride, Anni, sent SMSs to her sister in which she complained that he refused to sleep with her.

Dewani, whose extradition hearing starts on Monday, also allegedly paid for sex with a man at a fetish club.

According to the UK's The Sun newspaper, Anni sent several messages to her sister complaining about Dewani's refusal to sleep with her on their wedding night.

Anni was murdered in what was claimed to be a hijacking in Gugulethu, Cape Town, while the couple were on their honeymoon in November.

She was found dead with a bullet wound in the neck.

Dewani was arrested after the driver of the vehicle in which they were travelling, Zola Tongo, told a court that Dewani had asked him to hire hitmen to kill Anni.

The Sun reported yesterday that Dewani did not sleep with his 28-year-old bride before their marriage or on their wedding night in Mumbai.

A BBC Channel 4 programme was poised to reveal last night that Anni "cried herself to sleep alone on a sofa on their wedding day following a blazing row".

Anni's sister, Ami Denborg, admitted that she thought Dewani's pre-marriage sex ban was "strange" but said the family assumed he was just being a good Hindu, The Sun reported.

Dewani has denied all the allegations.

The National Prosecuting Authority is confident that the UK court will extradite him to face trial in South Africa.

One of the hitmen allegedly hired to kill Anni, Xolile Mngeni, recently had an operation to remove a brain tumour and is "gravely ill". "All I have heard is that there are grave concerns for his recovery," Tongo's lawyer, William da Grass, said.

Mngeni's grandmother, Zanyiwe, said authorities at Pollsmoor Prison, had denied her access to her grandson.

Mziwamadoda Qwabe is the other accused in the killing of Anni Dewani.