Death in Dubai: 6. The deal

World of Secrets

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

An undercover meeting with the pimp we’ve been investigating for two years. And a chase from Dubai to the UK to get answers. Back in Uganda, Monic’s family have been waiting for this moment.

This episode includes discussion of suicide and some disturbing events.

Presented by investigative journalist Runako Celina.

Season 9 of World of Secrets, Death in Dubai, is a BBC Eye investigation, produced in association with Thread Studios, for the BBC World Service.

Please note, the image is being used for illustrative purposes only and the person depicted in it is a model.

If you feel distressed by the references in this story, please speak to a health professional, or an organisation that offers support such as Befrienders Worldwide. www.befrienders.org

For UK listeners, details of organisations offering information about or support after sexual abuse, or with feelings of despair, are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline. Here’s a link to the BBC Eye documentary film, which we recommend you watch after listening to this podcast: https://bit.ly/bbcdeathindubai

If you are in the UK, you can watch on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n12t256jg

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.4	A heads up before we start that this episode includes strong language,
0:10.5	discussion of suicide and some disturbing events.
0:16.5	Click, click, hold, One, two, three.
0:22.6	Just prepping gear.
0:25.6	Make sure it all films together.
0:28.6	Mark, our undercover reporter, is getting ready to meet Abbey.
0:33.6	The man we're told was Monika's boss in Dubai. Okay, so we've got a camera here.
0:41.0	I've got a microphone on my leg here.
0:44.1	Put the Omega watch for a bit of bling.
0:47.8	Do I look like your average sex party organiser?
0:52.0	Half an hour until we meet the source and then hopefully another half an hour before in
0:56.5	Richard's.
0:58.4	I'm happy.
1:00.5	Mark is posing as an events organiser for wealthy men, looking for women for parties in Dubai.
1:07.4	Before he heads out, he calls me to run through the plan again.
1:12.5	So we're meeting the source and then he's going to bring in the guy who's going to bring me into Abbey.
1:19.3	And then I'll go with him to where to Abbey's residence, I suspect.
1:23.3	Nice. That sounds good.
1:26.0	Yeah.
1:26.5	Oh, fingers crossed and keep us updated.
1:28.3	I'm nervous, to be honest.
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