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� vaccine passports�. Of course, you have the evidence that you have been vaccinated held by your gp. And if other countries require you to show proof of that evidence, then that is obviously up to those countries. The protests against the Military Coup in myanmar have become the largest for more than a decade. Heavy snow could bring significant disruption to the South East Of England in the coming hours with weather Warnings Issued by the met office for large parts of the uk. Now on bbc news. Our world. Jane mugo is kenyas most famous and controversial Private Investigator. She says shes solved hundreds of crimes, but some accuse her of playing by her own rules. Kenyas private investigative industry is one of the biggest in africa. A Private Investigator is a spy, there is no two ways about it. And one detective is feared above all others. Her name is jane. I think ithink im i think im the most hunted women in the world. I dont stop until i get my target. I dont stop until i get my target. Jane mugo is my countrys most famous Private Investigator. Some say that her and her team are dangerous. Private Investigatorjane Mugo has been listed as a wanted criminal by the directorate of criminal investigations. Spy queen jane mugo is this afternoon denied charges of threatening to kill when she appeared before a milimani court. But to others she is a hero. Jane, she is not a criminal. Jane is a hero. I am journalist sharon machira. I have spent months exploring the secretive world of kenyas Private Investigators. This is the inside story of my countrys most loved and most feared spy. Nairobi. Private investigators make big money here. With kenyas police deeply mistrusted, people are increasingly turning to private detectives to find justice. Experts estimate that this secretive industry is worth millions of dollars every year. But with no formalised training or regulation, some fear that this hidden army of spies are taking the law into their own hands. And no one in the world of Private Investigators is more controversial thanjane mugo. Police sayjane mugo, a self styled private detective is a serial offender now on the run, and have issued a warrant for her arrest. In 2019janes image as kenyas most secretive and successful pi was shattered. Police accused her of making violent threats, and a number of serious crimes more than five years back. In 2015 she was accused and charged with detaining a man for hours after forcing him to pay her 440,000 shillings. Jane denied the charges and was released on bail. She claims that the case against her is a witch hunt. With her court case looming at the time of filming, jane is in the greatest crisis of her life and could face years injail. I want to meet the woman herself. These could be her last days of freedom. She is a fascinating character, extremely badass. She is a private citizen just like me but she does some of the toughest jobs the police do. Im talking about solving crimes, kidnappings, murder cases, and men are afraid of her. Like, high profile men. Jane has many enemies, and access to her is closely guarded. It took weeks of tense negotiations before she agreed to meet with me. She lives in a secret compound on the outskirts of nairobi. I was met at her gate by janes right hand man and head of security, a man only known as charlie i. Um, is he. I had no idea what to expect. Dog barks. After that introduction, jane finally emerged. Good to see you. Jane wanted to show me around her compound. She explained that her dogs werent just for her own protection. Who is the one that ijust met . Why do you call him hitler . Dog barks. Oh, my god. Hitler, halt order be a good boy hitler, order be a good boy no attack. Jane personally trained all the security dogs, including her favourite, hitler. Dogs snarling and barking. She is constantly surrounded by a team of bodyguards, who also work as her investigators. Many are ex police. She told me sometimes they are hired to spy on political opponents during elections. Sometimes politicians can be specific, they will tell us i want you to have, i want you to give me somebody who will be a bodyguard and an Intelligence Officer during the campaign time, so we can go and fit into their team opponents, and get information about what is happening. Spying for and against politicians for a living has made jane a major target. She has rigged her compound with cctv cameras, and her home is full of secret cameras hidden in everyday objects. When you look at number 10, you can see camera over there. Oh yes, there is, a small camera. I really tiny camera on the zero. Can you see this, number 10. The cameras there, you can look at it. She even hides them in her childrens toys, and sometimes uses them to spy on others. This looks like a teddy bear. A few days later, she invited us to her Operations Hub in the heart of nairobi. We began to get a glimpse into her day to day life. As we enter her office, it is immediately obvious that jane rules her staff with an iron fist. Its from here that jane directs her investigations, backed by a team of ten private directives. Janes fame means her services are in high demand. I am not able to give you my fee before i get an Instruction Letter from the client through a lawyer. People come to her wanting information on cheating spouses, stolen items and from time to time, violent crimes. Janes investigations are highly confidential. But she was keen for us to see her in action. We followed her to the scene of a suspected murder in february 2020. The family of the victim felt that the police had failed to adequately investigate the case. So they turned to jane. So according to you, maybe he was tortured or something. Did you see some blood around here or maybe. No blood. No blood, nothing. Did he have any bruises all over the face, the hands. No, no. The body had been found in the trees, reportedly with signs of mutilation. Janes team swept the crime scene for any evidence they could find. What is this . Could it have been food . Yeah, maybe. To the naked eye, actually it looks like blood but we can take it for some checking. We can take it to analysis. There is a difference between blood and tomato sauce or chilli. Despite her unconventional methods, jane noticed crucial details that the Police Report appeared to have missed. The details must remain secret, but after weeks of investigation, jane says she has solved this case, finally bringing closure to the victims grieving family. In a country like kenya where there is often deep distrust of the police, Private Investigators can play an Important Role in securing justice. But how powerful have they become . By working with government and the police, jane is able to access huge amounts of normally private data mobile phone call logs, text Message History and banking records. So the issue of privacy, because everyone has their right to their own privacy. Yes. Where is that line . When it comes to privacy you have it personally, you have your privacy, but if you are a criminal, what privacy do you need as a criminal . But not everyone agrees that pis should have access to this type of information. Their cosy relationship to politicians and the police gives them enormous power. Even within the security industry, critics fear that people like jane are becoming untouchable. A lot of these Private Investigators are former military officers, former police officers, they know how to work through the system, they know how to subjugate the system, they know how to corrupt the system. So even if you would wish to sue them, for violations on your privacy, for Human Rights Violations or whatever it is, then it would be arguably very hard. Because you can imagine, if this is a Senior Officer who was discharged from the military or the police force, you would be accusing him to his colleagues. During our research into Private Investigators, we discovered widespread evidence of unethical activity by a number of individuals. One of the companies we approached was nairobi based silver edge investigators. Their website advertises a range of dubious Services Including mobile spying. The pictures of their team are fake, lifted from stock photos online. We wanted to test if they would be willing to break the law and breach peoples privacy. So we sent an undercover journalist to meet with them. She posed as a potential client, a woman who suspected her husband was cheating. Martin told her he could hack her husbands phone after installing so called spy software. He said he could access the husbands Bank Transactions as well. The things he is willing to do are completely illegal, and its troubling because Private Investigators are actually meant to be solving crimes, not seemingly willing to commit a crime. Itjust shows you how broken this system is. The operative asked if it would be possible to honey trap the husband in order to capture incriminating photos. Martin, again, said that he could. Martins price for the whole package hacking a phone, a bank account, Social Media Profiles and setting up a honey trap was just under 3000. All these actions are illegal here in kenya. I am slowly beginning to realise why some people believe that this industry is out of control. We reached out to martin kamau and silver edge for comment but they did not respond to our allegations against them. I want to know what senior figures in the Security World feel about jane. Do they see her as a rogue investigator, or is she widely respected . Paul mwangi is a private detective whos worked with jane extensively. He is adamant that criticism of her is unfounded. Others in the industry disagree. Delano kiilu is head of prosak, the largest association of private Security Companies in kenya. Unfortunately, from what we have been able to observe, she has been involved in quite a lot of malpractice. There have been examples of gun brandishing, threatening staff, illegalarrests, also taking money by menace, those kind of things, surround her name. Jane and her team are in a constant state of high alert. To ensure her safety, she regularly puts her squad through gruelling training sessions. Excuse me, what do you want from me, boss . What you want from me boss . What you want . Can you see this . Can you breathe . He cant even breathe. Jane has a tae kwon do certificate and was keen to show me her moves. Can you feel it . You can do tae kwon do . I can do tae kwon do but my. Show me some moves. And then you make the bastard fall down. So thats what you do it. Have you been in situations where you have had to defend people . I love myjob, i lovejustice, and it is in my blood system. Fighting for justice is in my blood system. No, no, no, hard the rest of the training is led byjane� s right hand man, charlie 0ne. He uses his years of Foreign Military experience to put the team through a series of brutal drills. He claims his men are even better trained than the us special forces. We do our training in accordance to the guidelines of the navy seals. The same standard as the navy seals . Probably even better, yeah. Yeah. That is the reason why we are the best in africa. Yes, good, good, good. So power in your punch. Alright . The training is relentless, even during mealtimes. We are still teaching them to endure pain to endure. Charlie 0ne then showed us how, if captured and tortured, members of his team will never give up information. I dont know anything i dont know nothing let me go when you look at me, you can see im going to break you. Im asking for the last time will you tell us what we want . Charlie hinted that the team used similar methods during their real interrogations of suspects. Do you have to do that difficult type of interrogation with the suspects . We actually do worse than that. We actually do more than that. This is just a simulation for you, but we do worse than that. Will you tell us what we want to hear . Use a finger. He claims these techniques are needed to save lives. Theres no harm in using a bit of force in extracting information from you which will help which will save lives. 0k . As much as the Geneva Convention prohibits torture, but ours is not torture, but its. Its. Youre talking about force. Polite force. Polite force . Polite force. Not everybody in the Industry Shares charlie 0ne� s opinion on using polite force during investigations. There is no such thing as polite force it is simply force. And it is wrong to use force. So somebody from janes team says that they use polite force sometimes, what could that mean . The question we have to ask here, very specifically who gave them that authority to use polite force . There is no one in private security under any act, regulation, or law, in kenya who has been given permission to use polite force. Jane claims that her team only uses such methods on criminals, and never harass people. Throughout our time together, her looming court case seemed to hang over her. But theres one place that jane can go where she doesnt feel hunted. Her home village in kirinyaga county. This is her sanctuary. She is welcomed like a queen. Chanting and singing. People here love jane so much. So im from the same sort of culture and tribe as jane, the kikuyu community, and that is the kind of reception you get on your wedding day. Despite all the celebrations, i sensed janes emotions were on edge. The court case and the threats against her children were taking their toll. As the crowds left, i found her alone in the church. I needed to confront her about the allegations against her, and this was my last chance. In the media. Yes. They say, you know, certain things about you. They say, you know, that you are a criminal. Yes. What would be your response to that . So the charges were not true . And how did all that make you feel . What is what is running through your mind . Betrayal and Death Threats janes investigative work almost destroyed her family in 2020. But a few days after we finished filming, criminal charges against her were finally dropped. Shes already pursuing dozens of new cases. The jury is still out on kenyas private investigations. Reform and regulation is needed to keep the secretive powerful industry in check. But for now, at least, jane mugo is free to fight another day. Hello there. The start of our week brought him some cold, wintry weather with it. And it was the wind that was the key player. It also brought some snow to east anglia and south east england with accumulation started to build up throughout the day in kent, as you can see. But it was that beast from the east, that Cold Easterly wind which had a real impact. Bringing rough seas on exposed coast and a biting cold feel for many. There is an area across High Pressure across scandinavia and weve got this Cold Air Descending across scandinavia through the north sea. And its going to be with us for the next few days with up that means another bitterly cold spell of weather monday into tuesday. Easterly winds will continue to funnel in some showers and organise lines at times. We start to see some accumulation developing. Across Western Scotland and Northern Ireland thats where we may well get the best of the shelter and the best of any sunshine. But its not going to be warm at all. Those temperatures are really going to be subdued because of the strength and the direction of the wind. Noticeably keen easterly throughout the day. This is what its going to say on your thermometer. Just a couple of degrees above freezing. In the Wind Direction and the strength of that wind is probably going to feel about 6 or 7 on the exposed coast. As we move towards tuesday we will start to see the isobars open up just a touch across southern england. Hopefully fewer showers around. Well need to keep an eye on that front down to the southwest. That may threaten to the Isles Of Scilly later on. There will still be some showers around and still wintry. But hopefully fewer than we had on monday. Again, sheltered Western Areas perhaps managing to dodge them altogether. Temperature should peak at around two to 3 degrees still feeling very cold. In due wednesday the isobars opened up further still. The winds are going to fall a little lighter. That could have an impact through the night. We havent seen any significant frost recently. As you get to the bitter part of the week we could see a return to some Morning Frost with lighter winds. Its going to be a cold start to wednesday. Wednesday will be a quieter day. Dry with some sunshine coming through. Still the risk of a few showers across north egress coast but with lighter winds it should be a better day, i suspect across the country for Stop Temperatures well, dont write home about these temperatures. One to three degrees at the very best. Moving towards the end of the week were going to see High Pressure still dominating across scandinavia. Weather fronts are trying to push in from the atlantic and this is where the milder air is sitting behind. But not really having too much of an impact. The reason weve seen this cold spell is the jet stream has been a way to the south of the uk recently. Indications as we run the next few days on the jet stream tries to nudge a little further north. It weakens off just a touch. But it is trying to bring in areas of low pressure from the atlantic. At the moment it looks likely that that High Pressure is going to be a blocking high. And it prevents the funds from making it too much of an impact. In some respects thats good because it means that the weather may quiet down over the next few days. But there are no signs of any significant change to the feel of the weather. As you can see, a little bit quieter towards the weekend, a little bit less cold. Of course we will keep you updated on the progress. Even now, should protect against the worst consequences of the virus. Mai; worst consequences of the virus. May be will not be worst consequences of the virus. A be will not be reducing the amount of cases as much, but we still wont be seeing the deaths of the hospitalisations and the disease but it is really important for Health Care Systems. It is really important for Health Care System it is really important for Health Care Systems. It is really important for health care s stems. ~ ,. , care systems. Will be looking at the lans as care systems. Will be looking at the plans as the care systems. Will be looking at the plans as the number care systems. Will be looking at the plans as the number of care systems. Will be looking at the plans as the number of people plans as the number of people receiving a first vaccination passes 12 million. Also tonight. A Breakaway Glaciers sweeps away a dan in northern india

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