Overview
- BBC Eye and the World of Secrets captured Charles “Abbey” Mwesigwa on camera offering women for sex parties, saying they would do “pretty much everything,” with prices starting around $1,000.
- A former associate named Troy told the BBC that women were recruited from Uganda with promises of legal work, then told they owed debts for travel and housing and were confined until they agreed to sex work.
- Victims described clients demanding extreme and degrading acts, including defecation, gang rape and being filmed eating faeces, with some accounts citing racist fetishes and predominantly white European clientele.
- Two women linked to Mwesigwa — Monic Karungi in 2022 and Kayla Birungi in 2021 — died after falls from high-rise buildings in Al Barsha; families say police ruled the cases suicides, and BBC-verified lab tests found no alcohol or drugs in Karungi’s blood despite claims to the contrary.
- The reporting situates the allegations within the viral #DubaiPortaPotty trend and recent cases such as Ukrainian model Maria Kovalchuk’s severe injuries, while noting Dubai’s laws on sex outside marriage can deter victims from seeking help.