Honeymoon slaying suspect charged in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A British man accused of arranging the killing of his wife on their honeymoon was charged with murder in South Africa on Tuesday, hours after arriving from Britain following a lost battle to avoid extradition.

Shrien Dewani landed at Cape Town’s international airport in a plane chartered by South Africa’s justice ministry because of concerns about security and adequate monitoring of his medical condition if he had taken a commercial flight, the ministry said in a statement. The government “did not want to take chances” with Dewani’s transfer because of “undisputed evidence” during his extradition hearing that he had shown suicidal tendencies, according to the ministry.