On today's episode, the story of two journalists, two countries and a decade-old murder.

I'm Maeve McLenigan. This is the Al-Othman and I'm a news reporter at the Sunday Times.

Hannah covers the north of the UK for the paper.

I'm based in Manchester, so my beat is really anything connected, sometimes fairly tenuously,

to the north of England.

She often worked closely with another of the paper's northern-based journalists, David Collins,

and it was in a chat with him, in the summer of of 2020 that she first heard a name that would come to

mean so much Agnes Wangiru. Agnes, who was from Kenya, had died years ago in tragic circumstances.

The 21-year-old had been found dead in a septic tank outside a hotel. She had been working as a sex

worker and had been seen in a bar at the Lion Court Hotel in a place called Nanyuki in Kenya,

a place with a British army training base nearby. On the last night Agnes was seen alive,

the bar she was in was full of British soldiers

from the Duke of Lancaster Regiment. It turned out she had been stabbed and then her body had been

moved to the septic tank. It was found there two months later by a hotel worker. She left

behind a child who was just a baby at the time.

David, Hannah's colleague, had reported on the murder back in 2012 when it happened, and it had

stayed with him. And it was something that he'd always thought about going back to and re-examining.

And we had, as is often the case in news cycles, we had over the

summer a bit of a quiet period where we had a bit more breathing space. And he suggested that

maybe this was a project that we might want to get involved in together.

You see, one of the reasons why this tragic death had stuck so firmly in

David's mind was that it was a murder, and not only that, but a murder for which no one had been

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