Death in Dubai: 5. The reality of ‘Porta Potty’

Summary

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World of Secrets: Death in Dubai

Episode 5: The Reality of ‘Porta Potty’

BBC, aired October 13, 2025
Host: Renaco Salina

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Overview

In this gripping installment of World of Secrets, Renaco Salina delves into the real-world horrors behind the viral “Dubai Porta Potty” phenomenon and the tragic death of Ugandan influencer Monica “Mona Kizz” Karunji. This episode exposes how lurid online myths mask darker, systemic exploitation and abuse of migrant women, unspooling the threads of racism, misogyny, and digital witch-hunts. The story moves from internet rumor mills to personal recollections from Monica’s friends and family, and survivor testimony, all the way to the silent corners of a Dubai cemetery where unclaimed bodies lie.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Surveillance of “Abby” and the Sex Work Operation in Dubai

• [01:08–02:34] Renaco and her team track Charles Mwesigwa, known as “Abby,” a suspected trafficker. They observe him moving women and continuing the operation Monica was once part of.
  • “It looks like he’s still running this operation. This is World of Secrets, Season 9, Death in Dubai.” — Renaco Salina [02:34]

2. Monica’s Social Media, Death, and Internet Shaming

• [03:36–05:09] Renaco reviews the toxic deluge of commentary following Monica’s death and the viral spread of the Porta Potty rumors.

  • “Shit happens. She’s a hoe.” — Social media comment, read by Renaco [04:17]
  • “It’s nobody’s fault but their own. These parents must really be suffering to discover their daughter’s debauched life. I feel their pain.” — Another social media comment [04:29]

• Monica’s niece, Rhona, released a video to counter the online lies:

  • “She was like an influencer that she have killed her. So they should stop talking too much about her because they don’t know what exactly happened.” — Rhona [05:09]

3. The Role of Social Media and Internet Sleuths

• [05:41–08:48] Interview with TikTok content creator Riley Mobbs, who spread rumors about Monica but couldn’t substantiate them.
  • “I’m not able to confirm almost anything in this story because there was not any official news sources… The Internet is, like I said, it's the wild wild west.” — Riley Mobbs [08:02–08:48]
• Riley admits the viral narrative was built on speculation, not facts, and expresses conflict over the role of online sleuthing.

4. The Origins and Spread of the Porta Potty Narrative

• [08:48–09:46] Renaco traces the ‘Porta Potty’ story back to 2003 Dave Chappelle jokes and an R. Kelly scandal, noting how over time it became intertwined with shaming women, especially those showing luxury lifestyles online.

  • "By this definition, half the women on Instagram must be Porta Potties. The whole thing feels like a digital witch hunt." — Renaco Salina [10:44]

• [10:11–12:57] The narrative mutates through Urban Dictionary, Instagram “callout” accounts, and hostile forums like 4chan—targeting not only women but also stoking racist stereotyping against Arab men.

  • “We need to get this out to the mainstream, make the public hate these filthy Arabs.” — 4chan post read by an actor [12:10]

• Prominent Emirati TikTokers push back, calling the rumor racist:

  • “You are generalizing every Arab man in Dubai. This is not only racist, but it is disgusting.” — Emirati TikToker [12:32]

5. Real-World Abuse and the Spectrum of “Porta Potty” Experiences

• [13:46–17:54] Survivor Lexi recounts being tricked into the UAE for sex work, subjected to racist, degrading, and dangerous propositions.

  • “He’s like, if it is a yes, we can buy ice cream cones, shit in them, and we watch you eat. … 5000 if you will eat our shit. While we are recording you.” — Lexi [14:46]
  • “They want somebody who is going to cry and scream and run. And that somebody should be a black person.” — Lexi [15:27]

• Lexi called the police repeatedly for help, but met with racist dismissal:

  • “You Africans cause problems for each other. We don’t want to get involved.” — Lexi quoting Dubai police [16:41]

• Monica’s friend Mia confirms at least one client of Abby's had these extreme fetishes; refusal often brought violence or force:

  • “Abby would force you. You dare refuse… but forcing people to do that kind of shit. Eat poo.” — Mia [17:43]

6. The Lasting Harm of Online Harassment

• [17:54–18:33] The investigation finds no evidence Monica participated in such acts, but “the Internet didn’t need any,” and continues to hunt women as pariahs.

  • “The witch hunt mentality meant that she was labelled as the Porta Potty Girl.” — Renaco [18:03]

• [19:35–20:11] Riley Mobbs pledges to use his platform to correct the narrative about Monica:

  • “I definitely would make a follow up video, especially with all the new information we have… Absolutely.” — Riley Mobbs [20:02]

7. The Search for Monica’s Final Resting Place

• [20:37–28:49] Renaco investigates where Monica was buried after the family couldn’t afford to repatriate her remains. With help, they locate her burial date and site—Al Qusai Cemetery, in an “unknowns” section.
• The team encounters locked gates and security, underscoring the isolation of unclaimed migrant workers even in death.
  • “The way she’s been remembered online and the fact that even here, like, it’s just like her whole legacy is just reduced to like what? God, it’s just horrible, really. Locked away. Even in death, Monica’s trapped.” — Renaco Salina [30:38]

8. Ongoing Investigation & Next Steps

• [32:30–end] The episode closes with the team preparing to go undercover to get close to Abby, the suspected trafficker and organizer, in the hope of exposing his operation and obtaining justice for Monica.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On internet rumor culture:
  “If you don't know everything, the Internet's going to try to come fill the pieces or fill the missing links in ... you could be spreading false information without even knowing.”
  — Riley Mobbs [08:02]

• On digital misogyny:
  “By this definition, half the women on Instagram must be Porta Potties. The whole thing feels like a digital witch hunt.”
  — Renaco Salina [10:44]

• On racism in exploitation:
  “They want somebody who is going to cry and scream and run. And that somebody should be a black person.”
  — Lexi [15:27]

• On family closure:
  “Even if she died in pieces, then we should want our pieces to bury in her country. Just we need to bring her back in her motherland.”
  — Mia, Monica’s friend [20:37]

• On Monica’s legacy:
  “Locked away. Even in death, Monica’s trapped. Even in her final resting place, she’s not free. And her family needs answers.”
  — Renaco Salina [30:38]

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Important Timestamps

• [01:08] – Warning about disturbing content and start of surveillance on Abby.
• [04:16] – Reading of venomous online comments after Monica’s death.
• [05:41] – Interview with TikTok true crime content creator Riley Mobbs.
• [08:48] – Tracing the origin of Dubai Porta Potty narrative.
• [14:46] – Lexi describes the explicit and degrading proposition from a client.
• [16:41] – Lexi recounts police indifference to her pleas for help.
• [20:37] – The family’s yearning for Monica’s burial site and Renaco’s search.
• [27:12] – Scenes at the cemetery in search of Monica’s grave.
• [30:38] – Renaco’s emotional reflection on Monica’s tragic fate and legacy.

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Tone & Language

The episode blends investigative rigor with empathy and urgency, frequently shifting between gritty, unflinching testimony and personal ordeal, while maintaining a clear-eyed focus on systemic injustice.

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For Listeners

This episode is crucial for understanding how social and digital narratives can obscure, rather than reveal, the real abuses behind viral scandals—and why the truth, dignity, and memory of victims like Monica Karunji matter. It confronts the digital witch hunts and racist exploitation tied to the Dubai “Porta Potty” story, and spotlights those fighting for truth and justice, even when the world looks away.

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Next Episode Preview

Renaco and her undercover team attempt to get closer to Abby, aiming to confront him and document his role in ongoing exploitation, promising more revelations and an opportunity for exposure and justice.

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Transcript

[Renaco Salina]

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[Renaco Salina]

Before we start, this episode includes discussion of some disturbing events, including sexual abuse and strong language, including racist terms. I'll give you a heads up when it's coming, so you can skip ahead if you prefer. The team continues to keep eyes on the target and further updates will follow. We have a surveillance team watching out for Abby. We understand he's moved his girls out of the cramped apartment in Al Basha where Monica was living and now he's based here in this upmarket area of Dubai near the marina.

[Investigator/Reporter]

So we'll try and establish some kind of pattern at the property itself, try and identify Charles himself.

[Renaco Salina]

Charles Mwesigwa is his name, but everyone in Dubai calls him Abby.

[Investigator/Reporter]

The team have just done a drive past. There are two vehicles parked in the garage. We've seen Charles going in and out in and taxiing the girls away from the accommodation.

[Renaco Salina]

They keep watch for a few days.

[Investigator/Reporter]

What we have seen on a regular basis I saw like three times now. Is Charles driving or being driven in B2? So that's the blue Chinese model SUV with two girls. At least two girls in the vehicle.

[Renaco Salina]

Kind of blows my mind because almost exactly three years since Monica died, it looks like he's still running this operation. This is World of Secrets Season 9 Death in Dubai. From the BBC World Service, I'm Renaco Salina. Episode 5 the Reality of Porta Potty it's my fourth night in Dubai and I'm getting a really good understanding of this dark world that Monica was caught up in. Most nights I've been going to the clubs where I'm told Abby forced her to go and staying there till the early hours of the morning. I'm pretty exhausted. So tonight I'm staying in and online I'm flicking back through Monica's social media accounts. The bicycle you look like, the stunning pictures of her, the clips where she looks like she's living this glamorous lifestyle. And I start going through the comments people left after her death went viral and after she got labeled a Dubai porta Potty girl. They wrote things like this.

[Investigator/Reporter]

It's true.

[Renaco Salina]

Shit happens. She's a hoe.

[Mia]

It's a consensual act, meaning they're given a choice.

[Renaco Salina]

Many people always want to make fast.

[Mia]

Cash and live a glamorous and luxurious life.

[Renaco Salina]

It's nobody's fault but their own. These parents must really be suffering to.

[Mia]

Discover their daughter's debauched life. I feel their pain.

[Renaco Salina]

It's so far from what I've learned about Monica, so far from what I've heard happen to her. And I know how devastating it is for her family and friends to read these kinds of things. I remember Monica's niece Rhona saying she wondered if lies were being spread online deliberately. And she even released her own video to try to correct the narrative.

[Mia]

What I was trying to say to tell people to calm down. They are talking nonsense on her and saying many things on her. She was like an influencer that she have killed her. So they should stop talking too much about her because they don't know what exactly happened.

[Renaco Salina]

Why did her death go viral? Why did people repeat these rumors about her? How do you think stories on the Internet become sensationalized in that way?

[Riley Mobbs]

People like me, of course. No, I'm just joking.

[Renaco Salina]

This is Riley Mobbs, one of the tiktokers who covered Monica's death. He's a content creator from Cedar Rapids, America's Midwest, and he's also a rapper and musician.

[Riley Mobbs]

When I started doing the true crime videos, I think what made them so popular is I found stories that a lot of people didn't know about Riley.

[Renaco Salina]

Like most people online and Monica's friends in Dubai calls her by her social handle and nickname, Monakiz.

[Riley Mobbs]

Mona Kiz was a young, beautiful woman from Uganda who became enthralled with the glitz and glamour of becoming an influencer. She began taking even more trips to Dubai. The first time I Ever heard about Mona? Kiz was on Reddit and I'm just looking at all these stories and, and I scrolled past one and it was Mona and she was there and she was beautiful, like breathtaking model. And then I remember going to her social media and there were like a lot of posts that were her traveling and living like this luxurious life. And most people that are victims of those types of stories, it's usually not someone that looks like they're on top of the world. It was just, whoa, like, what is going on? This is like a real mystery.

[Renaco Salina]

In his video, Riley didn't actually call Monica a port, a potty. It was nowhere near as salacious or cruel as some of the other content out there. But to his thousands of followers, he repeats the rumor that Monica killed herself because of shame after. In his words, Mona and her friend.

[Riley Mobbs]

Were forced to do terrible sexual acts. And some of them are unspeakable. And it was all filmed and released on the Internet when this happened. Mona was destroyed.

[Renaco Salina]

Where did this come from? Where did this thought come from?

[Riley Mobbs]

Yeah, so there was a rumor and like I said, I feel like this whole story just feels like a rumor now. That was one of the things that was thrown around that she had been driven to do these nasty things for money. And it was filmed and that that video was put out. And then it kind of made sense to me if, you know, if I was forced to do something that degrading and it was filmed and put out for my family and friends to see, you know, maybe that would drive someone to take their own life.

[Renaco Salina]

Were you ever able to confirm that that was Mona in the video?

[Riley Mobbs]

I'm not able to confirm almost anything in this story because there was not any official news sources that had any information. If you don't know everything, the Internet's going to try to come fill the pieces or fill the missing links in. And I think that's a bad thing. But there's also been lots of cases solved. You know, victims have gotten their justice because of people like me on the Internet. So I'm hard pressed to say that the Internet sleuthing and reporting should stop. But I'm also conflicted because we don't know what's true and what's not. So you could be spreading false information without even knowing. You know, it's really. The Internet is, like I said, it's the wild wild west. And there's really no jurisdiction on the information that can spread.

[Renaco Salina]

I go deeper into this wild wild west, as Riley calls it, to find out where the whole Dubai Porta Potty narrative came from. How did it even start and then end up being linked to Monica? When I go down that rabbit hole, the earliest mention I can find is from 2003, when American comedian Dave Chappelle is mocking the disgraced R and B singer and producer R. Kelly.

[Investigator/Reporter]

Sit.

[Riley Mobbs]

Your body, your body. It's a Porta Potty. Only thing to make my completed When I turn your face to a toilet seat.

[Renaco Salina]

R. Kelly's now serving a 30 year jail sentence for sex trafficking and racketeering, with a further conviction for child sex abuse. By the time he was convicted, the Porta Potty thing had taken on a life of its own and it's now firmly linked to Dubai.

[Emirati TikToker]

Dubai Porta Potty a pretty trending topic across social media platforms.

[Lexi]

I have just bared witness to that.

[Renaco Salina]

Port a Potty video. Oh my God.

[Riley Mobbs]

Do you not watch it?

[Renaco Salina]

Is this what it's come down to for a Birkin bag? My eyes are on all of you influencers that are living in Poobai. Yeah, there's an urban dictionary entry for Porta Potties that dates back to 2012.

[Investigator/Reporter]

Expensive escorts bought by rich Arab and European men to go on yacht parties for $30,000 plus a piece of. In reality, these women are brought onto these boats to get shit and pissed on, hence the name Porta Potties.

[Renaco Salina]

The entry even tells you how to identify a Porta Potty.

[Investigator/Reporter]

If a friend of the female kind is always posting pictures of shopping sprees in Dubai and on a yacht drinking champagne in any UAE or Saint Tropez area, she is a porta Potty.

[Renaco Salina]

By this definition, half the women on Instagram must be Porta Potties. The whole thing feels like a digital witch hunt. If this is really happening, it involves two people. So why are only the women being shamed? Why don't the clients face the same vitriol?

[Riley Mobbs]

If you're a rich Arab in the UAE and you want to see how low women from the west will sink in order to make a few bucks, it's very simple.

[Renaco Salina]

There's an Instagram account tag the sponsor that tags women accusing them of being Dubai Porta Potties. They even trick some into recording videos saying what they're willing to do for money.

[Investigator/Reporter]

Tag the sponsor gives us a closer look into what these Instagram models would do for money. They would expose these women, destroying the little career they have left. I do think it's funny what they're doing, but I have a very sick and twisted sense of humor.

[Renaco Salina]

Digging deeper, I find an incel thread on the notorious online forum 4chan. A British woman is being shamed. An actor's reading their words.

[Investigator/Reporter]

What do you think a beautiful woman like this is doing? Getting married to a British man? Having kids, Doing anything wholesome, maybe. At worst, she could be a stripper, right? Wrong. She's a Dubai port, a potty.

[Renaco Salina]

It's not only women being shamed, another poster writes.

[Investigator/Reporter]

We need to get this out to the mainstream, make the public hate these filthy Arabs.

[Renaco Salina]

And the hashtags are also horrendous. Ahmed has the laxatives ready. Gross. Prominent Emirati tiktokers have poured scorn on the whole idea, distancing themselves from the narrative.

[Emirati TikToker]

I can assure you that this fetish is not a very common one among us Arab men. This ain't something a normal human being, rather a whole nation, craves on. You do understand that by making these statements, you are racist. You are generalizing every Arab man in Dubai. This is not only racist, but it is disgusting.

[Renaco Salina]

The rumor has taken off. It's in rap songs, comedy skits, trending sounds on TikTok. It's thrown around in rap battles and freestyles. It's everywhere.

[Riley Mobbs]

So when we were in Dubai, obviously, we went and saw the Burj Khalifa. Unbelievable. But I heard that when it was built, it wasn't connected to the sewage system. They have, like, these poop trucks, and that's why you shit on a hooker's chest.

[Investigator/Reporter]

So.

[Renaco Salina]

This crude online joke isn't so funny when you speak to women experiencing the ripple effects of it.

[Lexi]

There is a man who used to call me a toilet, and I had to play along, actually, to his fantasy because he was paying a lot of money.

[Renaco Salina]

This is Lexi, like, the other woman I've spoken to. She says she was tricked into coming to the UAE and forced into sex work, but she managed to escape and now helps rescue other women. So she has insights on the clients based on all the women she supports, as well as her own horrific experience. Lexi hadn't been there long when a Russian client sent her a proposition. I should say this is quite a hard listen, so skip on around four minutes if you don't want to hear it. This client offered her a significant sum of money for violent and forced sex with a group of men and extra if she'd do an additional horrible request.

[Lexi]

He's like, if it is a yes, we can buy ice cream cones. We can buy ice cream cones, shit in them, and we watch you eat. And that will be more.5000 if you will eat our shit. While we are recording you.

[Renaco Salina]

That wasn't the only time she was asked for these extreme acts. Each time it happened, she understood more about what was going on. That for the clients it was about power and humiliation.

[Lexi]

Every time I said that I wouldn't want to do that, it seemed to get them more interested. I don't know how that psychology works, but every time I would show, like, ew, that's not something I want to consider. Then they would be like, persistent. They want somebody who is going to cry and scream and run. And that somebody should be a black person.

[Renaco Salina]

Lexi says requests like this were just one aspect of the extreme racism she experienced in Dubai.

[Lexi]

Black monkeys. That is one of the terms they used. Oh, they like telling black girls to get on their knees. And there was this one client who asked me if I was comfortable putting on an Ankara thing so that when he rips it off me and whips my ass, he can feel the satisfaction of. Yeah, like that's something that used to turn him on.

[Renaco Salina]

Lexi tells me she called the police several times trying to get help to get out of there.

[Lexi]

Every time I would try to explain, they would be like, you Africans cause problems for each other. We don't want to get involved. And they would hang up.

[Renaco Salina]

The same thing. Michael and Troy said, the police showing no interest in investigating. So now I know the most extreme part of Dubai, Porta Potty definitely happens. And for those forced into, sounds like there's little help to get out. When I speak to Mia, Monica's friend, she tells me at least one of Abi's clients demands it.

[Mia]

Abby has so many clients, they do weird stuff. But there's this one client, he poops on girls. He poops and he tells them to eat the shit. Those are the fantasies he wants. He doesn't care if you're sick, he doesn't care.

[Renaco Salina]

And if they try to say no.

[Mia]

Abby would force you. You dare refuse. He would tell you, you know how to make money. But forcing people to do that kind of shit. Eat poo.

[Renaco Salina]

But if Monica was sent to do this, Mia thinks she would have refused.

[Mia]

Because you can't force Monica to do something she doesn't want.

[Renaco Salina]

There's no evidence that Monica ever did these acts, but the Internet didn't need any. The witch hunt mentality meant that she was labelled the Porta Potty Girl.

[Mia]

Anyway, people said stuff they don't know, maybe just because they want likes views. Why did they use their platform for negative stuff? Why didn't they use the chance to ask why she died? Why are people so mean?

[Renaco Salina]

Behind the Internet's Dubai Porta Potty narrative lies a reality that's much more sinister. It's nothing to do with influencers willingly doing this for money. For the woman I've spoken to, there's no choice. It's something they're forced to do. I can tell you a little bit about what I have found so far. I tell Riley, one of the tiktokers who repeated the rumors about Monica about what I've uncovered. Her real name was Monica Kurunji. She went to Dubai, according to her family, for a job and ultimately ended up being involved. Riley asks how she died. I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to say exactly what happened that night, but. But I tell him what I can reveal. The circumstances that led up to her death. Identifying the first man who arranged for her to leave Uganda. And if our undercover operation goes as planned, I'll also expose the pimps she worked for in Dubai.

[Riley Mobbs]

I'm sitting here awestruck. Like I'm at a loss for words myself when it comes to that.

[Renaco Salina]

So when Mona died, the comments were really, really evil. I mean, hideous, hideous things. And I guess personally one of the things I'm hoping is that after this investigation is finished and released, I'm hoping that, you know, with your platform, you might join me in correcting the narrative.

[Riley Mobbs]

Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah. No, I definitely would make a follow up video, especially with like, you know, all the new information we have and stuff like. Absolutely.

[Renaco Salina]

For Monica's friends and family, these false rumors really hurt. It was like their Monica was being taken away from them a second time. So correcting that narrative will really matter to them. When I spent time with Rhona and the family at their farm, the other thing they pressed on me is they wanted to know what had happened to her body. Where's her final resting place?

[Mia]

Even if she died in pieces, then we should want our pieces to bury in her country. Just we need to bring her back in her motherland and we no longer yearning to know what exactly happened.

[Renaco Salina]

And I'm going to do my best to help them.

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[Renaco Salina]

Michael, Monica's elder relative who was in the UAE when she died, was told by the police that he had 21 days to raise the money to repatriate her. The family did their best, but it was a large sum and sadly they couldn't manage it in time and Michael was told later by the Ugandan consulate that Monica had been buried somewhere in Dubai. Since meeting her family, I've been trying to find her grave. With the help of my Arabic speaking colleagues, we found someone official who might be able to help. Her family didn't have money to bring the body home. Where is she buried?

[Mia]

Is there a headstone marker and I'll.

[Renaco Salina]

Go through the script basically when I'm on the phone with him. Shall we try? We've been warned not to tell this person. We're journalists. So we're just going to say that we're calling on behalf of the family. We go through the plan. So we have a name. We've got our name. Monica Karunji. And do I say where she's from?

[Lexi]

Uh huh.

[Renaco Salina]

She's from Uganda. Isinjiro, if he asks. After lots of back and forth, the contact finds Monica's name and the date of burial, 26 July, nearly three months after her death. And says she's buried in Alcaz Cemetery. We're told her grave is in a section for unknowns which is where unclaimed bodies of migrant workers often end up. And warned that the gate into that area is probably going to be locked. But maybe someone will take pity on us and open it. What flowers do you think would be best? Maybe we can go with just plain white.

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[Renaco Salina]

Pure wine. I won't get into the cemetery if I say I'm a journalist. I'm just going to go in with flowers to simply pay my respects. So you've got roses with the.

[Riley Mobbs]

Some green I think.

[Renaco Salina]

Yeah, that's lovely.

[Investigator/Reporter]

Okay ma', am.

[Riley Mobbs]

No problem.

[Mia]

Yeah.

[Renaco Salina]

Just might need to shift some stuff over. Does anyone have a pen for the card?

[Emirati TikToker]

Yeah.

[Renaco Salina]

We set off and as we drive out of the city center, the landscape shifts from skyscrapers and malls to lower rise buildings. We're on our way to Al Qusai Cemetery. We've been told that this is where Monica was laid to rest. But in a special section of it called the unknown section. It's where people who didn't manage to get repatriated in their death are laid to rest. So I'm hoping I can find her or find someone that will help me to locate her. As I stare out the window, my mind goes back to Uganda. The sense of responsibility I feel towards Monica's loved ones hits me hard. I remember leaving Monica's family and one of the key things that they wanted was to know where she was laid to rest. So this is, this is really important for them. There's almost a sense of lack of closure because no one's received the body. We don't have a grave number so we're going to have to look around hopefully without raising suspicion. The problem is that it's an official site in Dubai and anything official here going to have high security. I was even told about the need for a Police letter. So I just don't know if we'll even get access or even be let in.

[Mia]

Are you ready?

[Renaco Salina]

Yeah, we're just coming up to the gates now. There's a barrier in place, but it's open.

[Mia]

Oh, gosh.

[Renaco Salina]

Okay. Yeah, let's just drive in. Okay. Wow. Okay. We are inside Al Kasai Cemetery. Burial areas A, B and C. There's signs on either side. The cemetery is huge. Graves as far as the eye can see. And there's a maze of roads through the different sections. I mean, there are just so many headstones here. So many of them don't have names on them. And it's just impossible to know where to start. God, if only we had a grave number because they do have these little signs saying, like B22. It literally is like a needle in a haystack. I think my next step has to be to ask someone. I was told that we're not supposed to go into the unknown area of this cemetery. So potentially, if I do ask someone, we'll be asked to leave. The heat is so intense. Our equipment keeps switching off and we realize we're starting to attract attention. We get back in the car. There's some people at the gate who've definitely clocked us. Yeah, I feel like people are seeing us. We drive away from the guards to an area we haven't been to yet. And there we find something.

[Mia]

Locked gates, locked gate.

[Renaco Salina]

How frustrating. It would be nice to lay eyes on her. Her grave. And we're so close and there's this kind of brick wall, a wall with a locked gate. And beyond it, what looks like more graves. I think she's here. I think she has to be. I think she's here. But we've definitely been spotted now, careful, there's a lot of workers out there on the right hand side. And there's a shiny black SUV coming towards us. This car, I feel like it definitely took a picture of the car. I saw the driver raise his phone up. We drive off and when we feel it's safe, park up. Just sad to think that Monica ended up here. Monica deserved more. She deserved more. Sad, isn't it? You're right.

[Mia]

You okay?

[Renaco Salina]

Yeah, I'm not. I'm not good at that. It's just so sad. It's just like she probably just has one of these wooden slabs. So she probably doesn't even have a headstone. Like, imagine that.

[Mia]

Like that.

[Renaco Salina]

The way she's been remembered online and the fact that even here, like, it's just like her whole legacy is just reduced to like what? God, it's just horrible, really. Locked away. Even in death, Monica's trapped. Even in her final resting place, she's not free. And her family needs answers. While I still don't know exactly what caused Monica's death, what I have been told about is the circumstances she was in and the man she was trying to get away from. We need to get close to Abby to hear how he runs his operation. And to do this, we're going to go undercover again. My colleague Mark is going to pose as someone looking for girls. His cover story is that he organizes parties for wealthy clients in Dubai. Troy, Abby's former right hand man, has agreed to make an introduction. Okay, so I've got a camera in the chest about here. I've got a microphone on my leg here with the omega. Watch for a bit of bling. Do I look like your average sex party organizer? That's next time on World of Secrets. In the next episode, Charles Mwesigwa, known as Abby, gets a chance to respond to these allegations. This has been episode 5 of 6 of Death in Dubai, season 9 of World of Secrets. Thank you for listening. Please tell people about it and follow or subscribe so you don't miss an episode. And if you have any information that could help our investigation, please get in touch on runarco. R U N A k o b c.co.uk World of Secrets Death in Dubai is produced by Ruth Evans, Lee Chung Bondo and me, Renaco Salina. The sound design and mix is by Andy Fell. The editor is Rebecca Henschke. It was a BBC Eye investigation produced in association with Thread Studios.

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