Murder in the Masai Mara, Ep 5: Cover-up
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4.1 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
John’s investigation keeps coming up against brick walls - and five decades on, so does Katherine’s. When Kenya admits to a cover-up it begins to make sense. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Who exactly were the authorities covering up for, and was the British government involved? As her reporting comes to a close, Katherine celebrates a young woman whose life was cut short; and at the eleventh hour, a chat with a Mi6 agent sheds new light on Julie’s case.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:07.3 | Hi Daily Tea listeners, Camilla and Tim here. |
| 0:10.3 | Throughout this week, we're bringing you a series from our investigations team, |
| 0:14.0 | the result of months of work by our colleague Catherine Rushden, |
| 0:17.2 | who has been revisiting the cold case of the murder of Julie Ward. |
| 0:21.6 | Make sure you go back and listen to the first four episodes if you haven't already. |
| 0:26.6 | We've heard how 28-year-old Julie Ward was brutally murdered in Kenya's Masai Mare in |
| 0:31.6 | 98, how her father John faced years of obstruction to his attempts to uncover the killer, |
| 0:36.6 | and the case against |
| 0:38.2 | Jonathan Moy, the son of Kenya's former president. |
| 0:42.3 | In this final installment, Catherine asks why the Kenyan government covered up the crime and |
| 0:47.2 | investigates claims that the British state was involved too. |
| 0:51.8 | This is episode 5 of Murder in the Masai Mara. Cover up. |
| 1:08.4 | Before we begin, I want to warn you that this series contains details that some listeners may find distressing. |
| 1:18.4 | In the early 2000s, a police officer walked into a beige and turquoise building overlooking the River Thames, the headquarters of Britain's Secret Service, MI6. |
| 1:31.2 | It's James Bond building there, where it got blown up in Skyfall, you know, all that. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah, that's a place, yeah, went in there. |
| 1:40.0 | Detective Chief Superintendent Terry Hackett from Lincolnshire Police had gained a top level of security clearance. |
| 1:48.4 | Being developed vetted in a nice process to go through. |
| 1:52.5 | But Terry was determined. |
| 1:54.6 | He wanted to look through some of MI6's secret files |
| 1:58.0 | to read any of their documents |
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