Murder in the Masai Mara, Ep 4: The President's Son

0:28The Telegraph Masai Mara in 1988, and how her father John faced years of obstruction to his attempts to uncover the killer. Today, Catherine looks into the evidence implicating Jonathan Moy, the son of Kenya's former president, and the shocking testimony from somebody who claimed to be a witness to Julie's murder. This is episode four of Murder in the Masai Mara, The President's Son.

1:07Before we begin, I want to warn you that this series contains details that some listeners may find distressing.

1:17As I've been investigating Julie's murder, I've been trying to learn as much about her as I can. I've wanted to know who she was. It takes me a while to really get a sense of her, and sometimes details come from totally left field. One day, a news source gets in touch. She was a lovely young lady, actually. He's called Paul Sullivan, and he's read an article I wrote in The Telegraph about Julie's murder. Paul tells me that he met Julie when she arrived in Nairobi in 1988. She was a cross between Doris Day and Ellie Mae Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies, if you ever saw that programme. He says Julie was at his house one day to see how he'd trained warthogs to follow a trail of maize to his window, and that he discovered something unexpected.

2:09I was standing right behind her and whispering, because I didn't want to frighten the warthogs, and I said, would you like a Tusker? Tusker's a Kenyan beer brand And there was no response so I upped the volume and then I upped it again to normal volume and she still didn't hear me. I caught her as it were, in a completely accidental, random deafness test Paul thinks Julie was deaf I wasn't aware before then that she was in any way deaf but I was totally convinced that that was the case

2:49By the time Paul tells me this, I've been speaking to people about Julie for months, and no-one's mentioned her hearing. It seems to take Bob by surprise. Well, it's quite strange hearing it for me, because I don't remember her being deaf. From that point onwards, any time I speak to one of Julie's friends, I ask them about her hearing. They don't describe her as deaf, but they do remember her having hearing problems. and Phil Shord, her friend from the big yellow truck, shed some light on why Julie's family may not have known. I was very close to her very early on and I noticed that she sometimes faded out.

3:34So I said to her, have you got a hearing problem? She said, yeah, I've got tinnitus, I've had it for a long time. She said, I don't tell anybody. I said, I don't think my family know. which didn't really surprise me, I must admit. It feels strange to me. Julie must have been a very private person to keep this to herself, even from her family. But as Paul tells it, the really strange thing is the way Julie's father, John, reacted when Paul raised the subject with him. He absolutely refused it. He absolutely denied it. It was not a fact with him. I don't know whether this is with hindsight or whether I felt it at the time, but it seemed to me that he would not let any criticism of Julie be allowed.

4:30This might seem like an innocuous detail. It doesn't have any direct bearing on the case. But I can't stop thinking about it. The idea of Julie being so private and John's apparent lack of curiosity when Paul claimed she was deaf. I asked Bob about it. It was quite a challenging question, but I think that maybe sometimes your dad had quite a vision of her. I feel like he almost didn't want to entertain certain aspects. You're probably right. Dad was tunnel vision. And if somebody just said something to him that, you know, he would have dismissed it. So you're kind of right that Dad did have tunnel vision.

5:13He did have his own views, but he would challenge them all the time. I think John's response to Paul might have been born out of protectiveness. Perhaps he didn't want anything to tarnish or even alter the image that he had of his daughter. But as I've looked into this case, I've also wondered if John's care over the way Julie is remembered might have impacted his investigation. if maybe he overlooked things about her life in Kenya that could have offered clues. Then, as I'm writing this episode, someone puts me in contact with a news source, a man who used to socialise with John in Britain. He tells me that in the 90s, he passed John a lead about Julie having a potential romantic entanglement with the then-president's son, Jonathan Moy.

6:10It may well be wrong, but it's a claim I haven't heard before. The source says he passed the information along to John, but he didn't hear any more about it. He doesn't know if John ever pursued it. Not then. But as the years went on, John would be forced to look at Jonathan Moy because his name kept coming up again and again. I'm Catherine Rushton. And this is Murder in the Maasai Mara, episode four, The President's Son.

6:54Julie had only been dead a matter of weeks when John was approached by the clothes seller outside his hotel in the Maasai Mara. She thrust a torn bit of paper into his hand with curly handwriting spelling out a name that nobody expected. The story she told was that she used to sell clothes around the Maasai villages and her words were, all the Maasai women are saying that it was Moy that killed Julie. Jonathan Moy, the son of President Daniel Arab Moy. The Mois were, and still are, one of Kenya's best-known families. President Moy was an immensely powerful figure who ended up controlling Kenya for 24 years and was ruthless about squashing dissent.

7:46And Jonathan? Jonathan was his rally-driving son. He started rallying in 1989 and his preferred cars were factory-prepared Toyota cars. He's a person who has his name out there on his own merit besides carrying the name of the Moy family. He is said to have won over 800 trophies, including being crowned Africa Rally Champion. Jonathan Moy was seen as a tearaway within the Moy family. Apparently, his father disapproved of his rally driving. And he was close to his mother, Lina, who was estranged from the president. To be fair, it wasn't taken that seriously. It didn't come from a policeman or a lawyer or somebody you sort of trust.

8:29It came from a clothes seller. It wasn't taken that seriously by your dad? No, because it was a bit far-fetched, really. He hadn't been mentioned before, so why would a clothes seller know that? It did seem far-fetched that Jonathan Moy could have had anything to do with Julie's murder. Besides, the clothes seller wasn't offering evidence or saying she'd seen something. She was just reporting hearsay, rumours. so John forgot about the crumpled piece of paper. As far as Bob is aware, no one ever interviewed the Maasai women. In hindsight, it appears that a vital lead was missed because five years later, the name on that crumpled up note came up again.

9:19Do you remember your first approach to the Ward family? Yes, I remember my first approach through the Met, actually, to John, and John rang me back. James Hawes is a film and TV director and a friend of mine. He's the person who introduced me to this story. He's best known for dramas like Slow Horses and Doctor Who. But he used to make documentaries, and soon after Julie's murder, he wanted to make one about her case. It's a story I've lived with or has lived with me for more than 30 years. The documentary never happened, but James became good friends with John and travelled to different parts of Africa with him more than once.

10:02Over the years, John kept James updated with his investigation. And one day in the early 90s... I get this call from him saying, I'm going to meet this man who may be a crucial witness to Julie's murder. John told James he had to meet the witness in secret. His name was Valentine Uhuru Kadipo. John met Kadipo at least half a dozen times over the years. It was often very cloak and dagger. He told John he was hiding from the Kenyan authorities because he was a former member of a notorious paramilitary unit. He said he'd been involved in all sorts of atrocities, including the derailment of a train and a massacre in Somalia, and that he saw Julie Ward's murder.

11:00I've got recordings of John's early meetings with Kedipo. One, two, three, four, OK, to John Ward. They're on cassette tapes, locked in John's library of secrets. It's Wednesday the 13th and the time is 3.10. I'm talking to our friend Mr Kedipo. A warning, some of what Kedipo says is graphic and upsetting. It starts innocuously enough. It was not near the main road. And it's dark. And it was dark, yes. Kedipo told John that he was in the Masai Mara on 6th September 1988, the day that Julie went missing. He claimed he carried out secret intelligence work for one of Kenya's former cabinet ministers, a man called Nicholas Biewat, and that on that day he'd been ordered to the Makari outpost.

11:49We moved and disappeared here up to Makari Post. That's the anti-poaching station where the rangers Peter Kippen and Jonah Magaroy worked. It was a few miles from where Julie's jeep would later be found abandoned in a gully. Once there, Kedipo said he followed a car to a nearby clearing where a group of men were drinking and laughing, Jonathan Moy included.

12:27Kedipo wasn't given much information about what was happening. He said the other men didn't trust him too much because they were from different tribes. But at one point, Kadipo said he went to relieve himself against a pickup truck and thought he heard some movement in the back. Something squatting like this. Kadipo said the movement was duly, that she was bound and gagged, and that whilst he was looking, one of the other men warned him away in Swahili. So he told me that watch the people who have been in the back. Don't look at rats which have been caught by a cat.

13:12Later that night, Kadipo says he was ordered to a different clearing, where he saw Julie again. He says that this time she was stripped to the waist and being pushed around, and that Jonathan Moy was with two other powerful men, Nicholas Biewat, the cabinet minister Kadipo worked for and Noah Arup too who was head of the criminal investigations department one of Kenya's most senior policemen The daughter was now tied and it was now bare chested with just a small cloth and with a rope tied on her waist being pushed They had a rope tied round her waist? Yeah, maybe they were beating her He said Julie became very distressed.

14:00The tape's a little hard to follow in parts because Kadipo mixes up he and she.

14:11Kadipo claimed that after the group had been abusing Julie for some time, Nicholas Beewat, the cabinet minister, ordered another man to kill her.

14:26work immediately. According to Kedipo, he stayed watching from his car, as the men created a makeshift weapon. The club is just a bolt of a tractor. Do you know this bolt of a tractor? A cog. A gear, a cog, a nut. A nut of a tractor. A big nut. A big nut of a tractor. And then you take a wood. You take a piece of wood and you put it on the end. Yes. One of the men supposedly used that club.

14:59Then Noah Arup too, the former head of Kenya's CID, allegedly gave orders. According to Kadipo, he told everyone to forget what they'd seen. Noah Arup too came to say that it is very dangerous what has been done, but what you have seen here, leave it here. Kadipo claimed that Noah Arup too ordered the men to dispose of Julie. We want you to start cutting the body into pieces because tomorrow we want it to be like animals. Kodipo described how the men allegedly decapitated Julie's dead body. They started to cut the neck, the easier of the head, until they took the head.

15:46Do they do that with one blow or with several blows? Which one? A blow. That's a blow. They do it once or several times? The one here was done almost several times. They didn't cut it. No. According to Kadipo, Jonathan Moy and another man took Julie's head away. He says they carried it to Makari Outpost. And someone took the head away. Who took the head? Moe's son. So they were just now on foot, telling me that, do you want us to enter the vehicle with this head? I say, I cannot even drive or stay in the vehicle having such a ghost. I'm afraid. And this is very bad. Kedipo was putting himself in huge danger by telling John this.

16:48And he knew it. because of how high profile some of the names in that group were. Nicholas Beewat and Noah Arup too were two of the most important men in the country and they were allegedly joined by the son of the most important man, President Daniel Arup Moy. It's a huge claim. It feels outlandish. Initially, John was quite persuaded by Kedipo's testimony. So far as Kedipo's statement is concerned, We've been trying to disprove it, and so far we haven't been able to. And that's the first time in five years we've ever been in this position, because usually when we take these statements, after a couple of days of detail checking, they fall apart.

17:32Here's my filmmaker friend James. I had questions, but my instinct was to believe him. John came home and stress-tested Kedipo's testimony. He examined it through every bit that he knew. Now, going back to the actual scene of the murder, where you all are in the park and you see Julie get hit with this club with a cog on the end. I think John was in conflict, if I'm honest. I think he didn't want to accept the full testimony because it gave a hideous description of how Julie died. What's bothering me is this question of the time. I don't think he liked Kedipo. Knowing his role as a bodyguard of Moy's gang, he wasn't predisposed to like this man.

18:17Kedipo eventually moved to Denmark, where he'd been granted asylum, and John continued to meet him there. On one occasion, he brought the Met Police with him. John kept interrogating Kedipo on every angle of his story. I want to show you some photographs. Yes. I want you to tell me if you recognise anybody. You know this one? Yeah, that one is Mr Bewart, yes. Now this is a map of the Masai Mara. And this over here is where Makari outposts. He can draw Makari. He knows the layout. He's got the reg numbers of cars. He can tell you what everybody was wearing. And a year later, his story was exactly the same, which is very rare.

19:08You know, you tend to find when people are lying, they change a bit of the story because they're not telling the truth. I am ready to stand before any culture of law. Deep down he knew there were pieces of evidence there that were hard to discard.

19:25There was one particular detail that John and James kept coming back to. Kadipo gave evidence that when Julie was being mistreated violently in the Mara, she was hit repeatedly with an ox whip. Now, an ox whip has on the end of it a tiny barb. It matched something that had been found by Professor Austin Gresham, the British pathologist who'd noticed something curious on Julie's leg. On her lower leg was a particular mark, and it was a repeated mark, in the shape of a little, like an old-fashioned kite, with a little round top, like a half-moon top, and a triangle bottom. John spoke to Professor Gresham about Kedipo's evidence.

20:12And when the pathologist heard it... He said, now we know what caused that mark on Julie's leg. Kedipo had no way of knowing that it had left that mark, nor that that mark had been found in a UK laboratory. So that felt to me like a piece of forensic description that corroborated the witness statement from Kedipo. But despite this apparent corroboration, not everything added up. Professor Gresham said that Julie had been decapitated with a single blow. And here was Kedipo, saying it took several. John kept probing other aspects of Kedipo's story too. Eventually, a crack appeared. Bob explains.

20:59With Kedipo, his story stayed the same for the first four times, exactly. It was only when Dad kept challenging him, I don't believe you, I don't believe you, he brought something else in and it was that bit that maybe was proved wrong. Kadipo claimed a handyman at one of the Masai Mara lodges could verify some of his story. But when John went to ask the handyman, it seemed that Kadipo had made him up. It's the same time I've been here now on the assurance this bloke's going to be here, and neither time has he turned up. Oh, you know, I'm doing my bit, what are you doing? Another chink appeared when John received a letter that was supposedly from an exiled Kenyan politician.

21:39The letter heaped praise on Kadipo. But John was suspicious and had it checked for fingerprints. There was a match with one on Kadipo's ID card. By this point, John was furious. Three years after their first meeting, he flew to Denmark to confront Kadipo. It's uncomfortable listening. You've made this hard, fucking story, I've ever seen.

22:31He goes on and on. the bloody world with your life.

22:42John's rejection of Kedipa at this point is so full-on, but my filmmaker friend James thinks there was something else at play. John was forever protective, particularly for Jan. He didn't want her to have to deal with what was obviously a hideous rendering of Julie's last hours. Maybe, therefore, deflected the investigation from something that would have added substance to that particular witness statement. Bob thinks that despite all this, his dad did still believe Kedipo, that he'd somehow just decided to give up on him because he'd already wasted enough time. The allegations were put to Jonathan Moy in 1997 and he gave a statement to the Kenyan police.

23:31His words are read by an actor. I wish to comment that delegations made against me are totally false and malicious intending to slander me. Jonathan Moy said he couldn't have had anything to do with Julie's murder because he was at his farm more than 150 miles away. Throughout the month of September 1988, I was at my farm at Eldamaravine. I have a farm at Narok, and on the alleged date of 6 September 1988, I was at my farm at Eldamaravine. I would also state that I have never been at the Masai Mara Game Reserve, but at my farm in Narok. His statement continues. I know Mr Noah Arapto as the director of CID Kenya.

24:20Honorable Nicholas Bewart as the MP for Kerrio South. I would say that I was not with either of them in September 1988, as there was no necessity for me being with either of them. As far as I am concerned, I have nothing to do with this Kodipo's allegations or anything to do with the disappearance of the late Julie Ward. I don't know if Kodipo's allegations were ever put to Nicholas B. Watt, the former cabinet minister, or to Noah Arup too, the then head of Kenyan CID. Apparently, Arup 2 said he was in London at the critical time. But I can't check with him because both men are now dead.

25:06In 2009, 16 years after John and Kedipo first met, Kedipo died, still in exile in Denmark, having failed to convince John that what he was saying was true. Nicholas Beewat's and Noah Arup-2's names didn't come up again in relation to Julie but Jonathan Moyes did again and again. At one point someone alleged they'd seen Julie with him having dinner in a Chinese restaurant in Nairobi after she went missing and before her murder. I haven't been able to substantiate it. Then as I'm writing this episode I get another lead that points to Jonathan Moy. from a man called Nigel Grimshaw, who used to socialise with John.

25:54Well, I first met her in September 1990. Nigel went to Kenya a couple of years after Julie's murder and he was picked up from the airport by a chauffeur. Knowing John Ward, I was interested to discuss the case with a local person. I mentioned to my driver that I knew John and listened keenly to what she volunteered. Nigel says his chauffeur told him that she used to drive Jonathan Moy around Nairobi and that sometimes he wasn't alone. He'd sit in the back of her car with Julie. And that they appeared to be in a close relationship. According to this story, Jonathan Moy had an apartment behind one of Nairobi's smart hotels and would have the chauffeur pick Julie up from where she was staying and then take them both to restaurants around the city.

26:46She also described repeated arguments Julie and Jonathan had in the back of the vehicle, including one particularly heated route that took place shortly before Julie travelled to the Maasai Mara for the last time. I can't really speak to my chauffeur's motives in telling me all this. I can only say that the details she shared were specific, unprompted and absolutely identical on both occasions. That's right. Nigel had heard this story from his chauffeur not once, but twice, many years apart. By a strange coincidence, he got into her car again on another trip to a different city in Kenya six and a half years later.

27:34And she told the same story. The fact of the matter is that her account was entirely consistent, six and a half years apart. Same details, same measured tone, same memories. I find this account quite astonishing. It's important to say I don't know it's true, but if it was, then it would put a whole new complexion on Julie's story. It would mean that if Julie met Jonathan Moy in the Maasai Mara in September 1988. They were far from strangers. Nigel says he passed the information on to John twice, after each time he met the chauffeur, along with her contact details, so that John could follow it up.

28:20But Nigel doesn't think he pursued it. I was not told that any contact was made with this person and I never heard anything further about it once I'd provided the details. Any decision on how to pursue the lead rested entirely with John. I've wondered why John might not have followed this up. There's no doubt he was already inundated with leads, from people chasing the reward or who just wanted to be involved. Perhaps he just didn't think this was plausible. But I've also wondered if he didn't want to believe it, that the thought of Julie being involved with Jonathan Moy was something he felt unable to consider.

29:08But more than a decade later, in 2011, a new source provided evidence that did persuade John and which called Jonathan Moy's alibi into question. More on that after this short break.

29:40To understand why Valentine Kadipo's claims forced him into exile, you need to understand the incredibly strong grip Daniel Aratmoy had on Kenya. He became president in 1978 and was initially welcomed at home and by leaders in the West. But after an attempted coup in the early 80s, President Moy became ferocious about squashing anyone who opposed him. He remained in power for decades. Critics claim most Kenyans have had enough of one-party rule, tainted by corruption, patronage and oppression. The traxes criticised him for rampant corruption that spread under his watch and for the torture and silencing of his opponents.

30:24He is still holding the gun against us. He is still instilling a culture of fear. Here's Edwin Akoth, the Kenyan journalist I'm working with. People disappeared. People were detained without trial. And some people died out of those political persecutions. That's a family that ruled Kenya for 24 years and they were very powerful. And so that chilling power that they held over two decades is still fresh in many people's memories. President Moy's government was accused of torturing political opponents and even arranging the murder of a minister, Dr Robert Ukko. It was one of the most controversial killings in Kenya's history involving a high profile personality.

31:12Dr Uko was Kenya's foreign secretary, who took a dim view of government corruption. He was found dead less than 18 months after Julie. And there are some curious parallels between the two cases. Dr Uko was shot, then doused in petrol and burned. Thick lumps of ash, black ash. The head was the only intact thing that could tell you this was a human body. And yet, the post-mortem report said that he'd killed himself. The verdict sparked riots. The death was linked to the powerful and influential people who were around Moy, and that murder remains a mystery. Once again, President Moy called in Scotland Yard to quell the unrest.

31:57He poured all this stuff over him and then shot himself. Now, I'd never known a suicide or do a thing like that before in my experience. The lead detective on the case was John Troon. I'm going to call him by his last name to avoid confusion with John Ward. There was no doubt in my mind that the scene was set up and that the special branch were involved in his murder. It turned out that Dr Uko's post-mortem was carried out by Dr Jason Kaviti, Kenya's most senior government pathologist. The same man who changed Julie's post-mortem report. Dr Kaviti had argued that the changes to Julie's post-mortem were actually legitimate corrections.

32:44But in Dr Uko's case, Troon says he dropped the pretense. He admitted that he was pressurised to say this. Dr Kaviti allegedly blamed people in Kenya's special branch. And Troon says that at one point, a senior officer in the Kenyan police threatened him. Mr Troon, you be careful. You watch your back. You're getting too close. Troon's work led, briefly, to the arrest of two men. Nicholas Beewat, the former cabinet minister Kadipo said had ordered Julie's murder, and a man called Hezekiah Oyugi. He was a permanent secretary in President Moy's government and is said to have controlled Kenya's secret service.

33:29It's hard to overstate how dangerous things were for the Kenyans who'd assisted Troon. He describes one witness, who he says was in an awful state. His trousers had been split up to steam, both legs, to the crutch area. Bleeding nose, bruises, he'd been tortured, beaten up, and he had electrodes with electric things put on his private parts. to try to find out what I was talking to him about. Troon says this sort of thing happened several times and that he'd had to help three people get asylum in Britain. This was what was going on out there in my case. Dr Uco's brutal murder certainly contributed to a sense that there would be consequences for anyone who went against President Moyes' regime.

34:26Fast forward to 2011. A new MET team was on Julie's case, headed by Detective Chief Inspector Phil Adams. I was assigned as a DCI to re-look into areas of the investigation of Julie Ward. Phil was in the middle of a covert operation in Kenya when a call came in. We were at a lodge at the time and the call was being to the lodge that somebody wanted to speak to the senior detective from Scotland Yard. It was someone Phil hadn't spoken to before and who didn't want to be seen talking to the police. I had to discreetly leave with one of my detectives where we were in the Maasai Mara, where I met a third party who then led us to some remote place, should I say.

35:18This person had a secret they wanted to share. It was important information which had been kept from the police for 23 years. From that individual, we found out some very helpful information that the president's son, Jonathan Moy, had been out in the Maasai Mara at the time. This source, said Jonathan Moy, had made a booking at a camp in the Maasai Mara in early September 1988. 1888. Remember, Jonathan Moy told the police that he'd spent the whole of that month at his farm, more than 150 miles away, and that he'd never even been to the Maasai Mara game reserve. But the source told Phil that wasn't right, and that there was someone else he should speak to, a second source.

36:10What they had to say was even more valuable, because they claimed to be an eyewitness. Suddenly this person started to elaborate on the fact that Jonathan Moy turned up at a camp in the Maasai Mara. Phil and I are both being careful not to name names here because of the potential danger to these sources but this second source said they'd met Jonathan Moy at the camp around the time Julie was missing. And then at some stage they left, the whole entourage left. This is huge. If what this source said was true, then Jonathan Moy had lied. Phil wanted it in writing, so the police persuaded the source to give a statement.

36:58I've seen it. The Ward family shared it with me earlier this year, and with their agreement, I was able to make it public for the first time. It runs to five pages, and at the top it says restricted in block capitals. I've redacted the source's name before sharing the statement with an actor. Around the time that Julie went missing, I recall that I received a booking request from Mr Jonathan Moy and a party of three or four people to stay at our site. I recall that after the booking request was received, we set up a private camp for Moy and his entourage. The statement goes on to describe the arrangements they made for Jonathan Moy's party and then says...

37:43After the camp was set up, I remember that Jonathan Moy and his party arrived very late one evening. I definitely know that Jonathan Moy arrived at the site that night as I greeted him and spoke with him. That's the key bit. This is a powerful man who told police that he couldn't have anything to do with Julie's death because he was at his farm, more than 150 miles away. But there was something else strange about Jonathan Moy's behaviour. The source said he was at the camp one day and gone the next. The morning after they arrived, Moy's party left to go out for the day. For some reason, they did not return back to the camp that night.

38:27This was unusual and they did not say that they wouldn't be back that night. I had been expecting them to stay. Phil Adams says... It made no sense that he would be there. go out for the day and then the day that she disappears he doesn't come back. It's just too suspicious not to be very good circumstantial evidence against him. The Met now had a statement from a witness who claimed they'd seen Jonathan Moy in the Maasai Mara at around the time Julie disappeared. This witness wasn't someone with an obvious vested interest or who'd heard about Moy from someone else, but someone credible who'd said they'd seen him with their own eyes.

39:14And there was more. The Met officers got hold of documents to corroborate the camp source's story, which I've also seen. There's a letter written by someone who worked at the camp with dates in it. It was sent shortly after Julie went missing and asks practical questions about what to do with Jonathan's camp. I was quite excited because finally we'd got something that was tangible. There has always been a lot of rumours but no real fact to put him there. And suddenly we'd uncovered a piece of fact that he was there.

39:52Incredibly, Phil and his team didn't share what they'd found with the Kenyan police. Instead, this statement that was taken 14 years ago, that appears to expose the lies of a powerful man has spent most of those 14 years under lock and key in a police facility in Lewisham, South London. Phil says that the source made the statement under one condition. I promise you that I will keep that. I will not show it to any Kenyan police. I will bring it straight back to Scotland Yard and we'll keep it under lock and key there until you are comfortable with us using it openly in an investigation. The political situation out there was still quite unstable insofar as people who supported Moy were still strong and in power.

40:43So it was equivalent of, you know, dealing with an informant. You can see this commitment at the end of the statement. It says it's only for the information of British police officers that it could cause serious problems if the contents were divulged to the wrong person. Here was a real breakthrough, which put Jonathan Moy in the frame for Julie's murder. But instead of investigating fully, this new evidence was basically shelved. Honestly, I understand that they have an obligation to protect their sources. As a journalist, I have the same duty. and it's also fair to say that Phil wasn't in a position to release the statement after he'd retired.

41:28But I do wonder whether the Met should ever have agreed to keep it hidden in the first place. What use was it if the police couldn't investigate?

41:41Phil and his team wanted to test Jonathan Moy's DNA to compare it with traces on Julie's belongings and at the place where her remains were found. But there was a problem. Phil says that the Met were operating as aides to the Kenyan police and that under the terms of their engagement, Kenya had what's called primacy in the investigation. That means the Met had to run all their plans by their Kenyan counterparts. Phil was doubtful that a formal request by the Kenyan police would work. Out there it just wasn't my say. It was Kenyan's say. But Phil's team didn't test Kenya's response. They didn't ask Kenya at all.

42:24That statement stayed locked away in the police station for nine years and only emerged in 2020 after the wards lobbied the camp source to get the Met to share it. But by then, it was too late. That's because Jonathan Moy was dead. He died the year before of pancreatic cancer. He will never face justice. Bob's furious that the statement stayed hidden all those years. You could argue the failing was we didn't get more into court, but that's because we were stopped by others to do so. That's what it's all about, isn't it? So, bottom line, you know, I always say you're after two things. You're after justice to know what happened.

43:13We think we know what happened, but we never got justice. It's now been almost 15 years since those two sources spoke to the Met, terrified of what might happen if their evidence was linked back to them. I wonder if they'll feel more able to talk now, now that Jonathan Moy is dead. His father is dead too. President Moy passed away in 2020. but Edwin O 'Koth does warn me that the legacy of fear that he established has outlasted him. The political class that is still in power has some remnants or some links to the Moy era and they come from the same Kalenjin tribe so there's a tribal link, the political link and so people still have that fear and you know that is enough to send enough chill and you understand why people are freaking out from speaking out.

44:15But I want to try and speak to the sources, to hear firsthand what they've got to say and also why they didn't speak up earlier. I know their names from the Ward family and although I've agreed with Bob that I won't share them for the sources' safety, it's enough to help me track them down in Kenya with Edwin. So we're currently on our way to the land. It's not gone quite as planned. Our hunt begins with a lot of wrong turns. We got very close and we were given directions and then those directions seem to have petered out into... But eventually we find the camp Jonathan Moy is said to have stayed at and get an address for the first source.

45:02A few days later I knock on their door. He has very bravely agreed to talk to us on tape tomorrow, on the understanding that we have it revoiced so that he is anonymous. And he actually, he said at the end, he said, you know, good on you. God, I'm so happy. That night, Edwin and I celebrate a job well done. But the following morning, when we go back, it turns out that the celebration's premature. This is incredibly disappointing. We've come as per our agreement yesterday. It felt like a real triumph that he had agreed to talk to us and this feels terrible. Basically, yesterday we kind of went in the gate quite easily.

45:51This time we've been held at the gate and they've called security. The house is locked up. The source has left us a letter. a security guard approaches and hands it to me through our car window. It says, to the Telegraph team, I've decided not to do any interviews on this subject as I have done my obligation to the family. Please don't call or visit me or my properties going forward. I don't authorise anything you noted down yesterday to be used in any public media. Oh. It feels so different from his attitude yesterday where he congratulated us for looking into this. Not only has the source had a change of heart, they've called security, warned us to stay away and sped away on a motorbike.

46:45Things are not quite as dramatic with the second camp source, the one who says they met Jonathan Moy, but the end result is similar. They say they want to think about the request overnight. The following morning, a text comes through. They're not going to speak either. God, it's really striking to me how concerned they are about safety and what will happen to them if they speak out against Jonathan Moy, even though he and his father are now dead. Julie's brother Bob is unimpressed. I get the fear, but there also comes a point where you have a moral judgment to make. And I don't think they've ever made that moral judgment correctly.

47:31I've tried to piece together the evidence that points towards Jonathan Moy There's the testimony from Valentine Kadipo He said Jonathan Moy was there when Julie was killed That he'd helped to carry her decapitated head There was the note from the clothes seller naming Jonathan Moy in curly black biro The camp sources statement saying he was in the Maasai Mara when Julie was missing The chauffeur, who allegedly said Julie knew Jonathan Moy long before she ventured into the Maasai Mara And the story about the Maasai elder, who allegedly saw Julie's body still intact These pieces don't quite fit together Kadipo described Julie being dismembered immediately after she was killed If that's true, then the Maasai elder story can't be because that suggests she was killed first, then cut up some time later.

48:33Jonathan Moy's involvement in Julie's murder has never been proven, but Phil Adams has his own personal theory. My honest view is that Jonathan Moy did go out that night, potentially came across Julie, who had possibly broken down, and I think somehow he's taken advantage of her and I think he's either responsible for her death or, having taken advantage of her, whether he's got people to dispose of the body. We can suspect Jonathan Moy was involved, but we can't prove it. And even if we could, we would then have to sit with the unsettling thought that he never paid the price for his crimes.

49:22As far as Bob is concerned, the question of who killed Julie and what happened to her has been overtaken by a more pressing one. Who has been standing in the way of justice for 37 years?

49:39For his dad, and now for him, there was something going on closer to home which allowed Julie's killer to escape. It stinks. It stinks of our government trying to cover this up. What do you do when the lead police force in the UK and the government is hiding things? Where do you go?

50:02Next time, on Murder in the Maasai Mara... They systematically tried to not find the murderer. His thoughts, I think, were that there might be bigger things at play. Do you think that there was a cover-up? By Britain. Without any shadow of a doubt.

50:24If you're enjoying this series, my colleague Jack Leather has made a film charting my investigation in Kenya. Follow the link in the show notes for this episode to see some of the people you hear in this podcast. Murder in the Masai Mara is a podcast from The Telegraph. It's written and reported by me, Catherine Rushton. The series is produced and sound designed by Anna Stauffenberg and the executive producer is Cara McGugan Additional reporting by Edwin O 'Coth Additional production by Lillian Fawcett and Jack Leather Script editing by Venetia Rainey Mixed by Elliot Lampet The commissioning editor is Louisa Wells Original theme music by Nyokabi Karaoke With thanks to the Ward family If you have any information about this case that could help us get closer to the truth,