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For more than twenty years, filmmaker Joan Root had a life of romance and endless adventure, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:10 | |
making documentaries with her daredevil husband about the wilds of the continent that she loved. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:15 | |
..independence means a better life... | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
But it was a love that could not be sustained | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
in an Africa that was changing. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
A love that would become dangerous when she tried to save a lake that came to define her whole world. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:32 | |
Joan didn't realise that this is a life and death question to people, to families, young, | 0:00:34 | 0:00:41 | |
still hungry, wanting a life. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:42 | |
SHOUTING | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
She bailed him out of trouble. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
She paid people off to keep him out of trouble. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
And we don't know what hold he had on her, or why. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:58 | |
She knew she was trapped, she knew she was going down a pipeline | 0:01:03 | 0:01:08 | |
and she desperately wanted out, but she didn't know how. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
GUNFIRE | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
SHOUTING | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
Whatever happened, whatever Joan did, whatever caused somebody to think | 0:01:21 | 0:01:26 | |
that she deserved... | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
what she got... | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
..I find that very difficult. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
..to track the gunmen and are under pressure as this is the latest in a series of murders of white people... | 0:01:37 | 0:01:42 | |
..and suspect it was an act of retaliation for her conservation work. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
The attack happened at her home near Lake Naivasha. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
Alan Root and his wife, Joan, are reckoned to be | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
the best wildlife filmmakers in the business. Just watch them. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
They're coming back, Alan, are you ready? | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
-OK. -Ready? Go! | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
It was an endless adventure. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
She was great, very game and didn't complain, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
and loved it. And I think she did love it. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
We'd come down from the far end of Uganda, you know, Kadepo National Park, right up near the Sudan, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:33 | |
one day in Nairobi, turn around, and we'd be off to the Serengeti or wherever, just non-stop. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:40 | |
What is it the Roots have that makes them the A-team? | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
Well, for a start, they are obviously just that, a team. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:50 | |
She was absolutely great. I could come and say, "Hey, we're off to wherever." | 0:02:50 | 0:02:55 | |
And she'd say, "How long?" and I'd say, "About a month," | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
and that would be it. And the next thing I'd know, she was filling the house with supplies | 0:02:58 | 0:03:05 | |
and I'd have to pack them in the car and the trailer and off we'd go. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
Through the 1960s and 70s, Joan and Alan Root made nearly 40 ground-breaking documentaries, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:33 | |
capturing images of wildlife as never seen before | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
and opening the world's eyes to the wonders of their beloved Africa. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
Joan was born into the ruling class of colonial Kenya, the only child of an English settler. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:57 | |
Her family had made a fortune, first as coffee farmers, | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
and then as pioneers of the emerging safari business. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:05 | |
Joan enjoyed a life of elite schools and endless safaris. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:11 | |
DISTANT VOICES | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
When she returned to the colony after finishing school in Europe, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
her reputation preceded her. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
I'd heard about this girl, a lot of guys were talking about her. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
She'd been away to school in Switzerland and had just come back and caused quite a stir. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:38 | |
She was definitely one of the most beautiful young women in Kenya at the time. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:47 | |
I drove up in my battered old Jeep to a lodge in Ngorangora crater in Tanzania, | 0:04:47 | 0:04:53 | |
and there was this big safari wagon covered in mud | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
that just drove in with a big cage full of chickens on top. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:01 | |
And out stepped this stunning girl in a sort of safari outfit, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
and, er... | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
well, I was instantly smitten. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
It was about a year later we got married. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
The Roots spent their honeymoon filming in the bush. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
It was the beginning of a project to reveal to the world | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
an Africa different from white hunters seeking the excitement of the kill. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
The Roots' Africa was delicate, beautiful, pristine | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
and complex. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
We saw nature holistically. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
We never made a film about a single species, because that isn't the way they are, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
everything is interconnected, there's so many sub-plots, if you like. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
She was incredibly observant. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
She would say "Hey, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
"look at this, there's something else going on here." | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
And we'd be able to incorporate that into the story. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
Joan and Alan were a complete unit. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
Alan was the sort of genius and Joan was the side-kick. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
They knew how each other thought. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
Joan had got the right lens out almost before Alan asked for it. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:31 | |
Both of them loved what they were doing. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
She knew exactly what was needed and she presented it. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
Anybody who saw films like that, it was new. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
Millions of people around the world watched the Roots' films and now wanted to visit Africa. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:13 | |
Discover it. The wild is where you find peace, | 0:07:13 | 0:07:18 | |
where you feel that nothing much has changed for the last 200,000 years. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
By the late '70s, more than 250,000 people a year were flying to Kenya. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:28 | |
Within the world of wildlife and conservation, the Roots were celebrities. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:34 | |
Completed last year, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary of 1978. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
With extraordinary patience and ingenuity, a husband-wife team of naturalist-photographers has... | 0:07:39 | 0:07:46 | |
Joan organises their trips and uses her vast knowledge of wildlife to contribute to their scripts. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
Though she looks fragile, her appearance is deceptive. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
We'd both wanted kids when we first got married, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
but decided to put it off until we got established. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
And she just went along to have a check and the doctor said, | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
"I'm sorry to tell you that you're having premature menopause symptoms | 0:08:11 | 0:08:17 | |
"and I don't think you're going to be able to conceive." | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
And sure enough she couldn't. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
She was so successful in every other field and... | 0:08:25 | 0:08:30 | |
and couldn't have children. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
You could see her pain. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
And she never really discussed that with me or with anyone, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
and so there was never ever a discussion about whether we should adopt. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:45 | |
It was just closed, a closed subject, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
and she just internalised that pain and she lived with that. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:57 | |
Something that I learned later in life was that her parents had followed this strange doctor's idea | 0:09:00 | 0:09:06 | |
of bringing up children, which was that if a child cried, you just let it cry. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:11 | |
And then it knew that no help was coming and it would grow up knowing that it was on its own | 0:09:11 | 0:09:18 | |
and independent and not yelling for help when it needed it. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
It was almost as though that upbringing had produced this behaviour | 0:09:23 | 0:09:28 | |
where you just didn't call out for help. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:33 | |
Early in their marriage, Joan and Alan settled on the shores of Lake Naivasha, | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
the only freshwater lake in Kenya, known the world over for its extraordinary plant and wildlife. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:55 | |
It was paradise. It really was. I mean... | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
they were just ranches around the edge. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
The land was spread out and full of wildlife, masses of wildlife coming down to drink in the lake. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:13 | |
Full of hippos, | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
vast areas of water lilies | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
with thousands of water birds. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
Unpolluted, clean. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
It was just incredible. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
We had a net about this long, | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
which we had just waist deep out from the edge. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
You could walk out to unload the fish | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
and that provided us and our staff and our otters and our tame heron, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:48 | |
we got all the fish we needed from a 6ft long net. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
Their lakeside home became a sanctuary for the menagerie of wounded animals they'd adopted. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
And provided a break from the gruelling schedules that pulled them across the continent. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
We spent so much time together. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:14 | |
We'd be in the vehicle from dawn to dusk, just every day, every day. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:20 | |
We often joked that we had five years of togetherness | 0:11:21 | 0:11:26 | |
for every normal year of marriage. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
And I think that actually got to us after a while. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
It wasn't something we could discuss, so it just didn't get discussed. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:46 | |
And if you don't talk about those kind of problems, they don't get solved. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
In 1983, after more than 20 years of marriage, Alan had an affair. | 0:11:56 | 0:12:01 | |
But after three years of turmoil, they both agreed they wanted their old life back. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
A couple of days after I got back, Jenny, the lady I'd been with, | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
was told she had leukaemia and had probably two years to live. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
I felt that I couldn't abandon her... | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
..and I think Joan felt, "Well, two years, you know, it's been eight months already, | 0:12:21 | 0:12:29 | |
"let's hang on. This is something Alan needs to do." | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
And I felt I needed to do it. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
And so, there was just a tacit agreement that that's what would happen, | 0:12:34 | 0:12:41 | |
that I would stay with Jenny and that I'd be back. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
Jenny lived another 15 years. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
Joan was absolutely devastated. I mean, Alan was just the other part of her. | 0:12:55 | 0:13:01 | |
They were two halves of a whole as far as she was concerned. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
And she really was lost when it all broke up. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:09 | |
Here, you lose your whole life, really, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
as a business, you lose your vocation, you lose your best friend, | 0:13:21 | 0:13:26 | |
you lose your partner, you lose your lover, | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
you lose your husband, you lose everything in a very short period of time. How do you cope with that? | 0:13:29 | 0:13:35 | |
Joan moved to live down here in Naivasha, which had been their home since 1960, | 0:14:16 | 0:14:21 | |
but, basically, it was a dumping ground between filming trips. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:26 | |
She didn't know Naivasha, she didn't know the area, she didn't know the people. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
And, suddenly, she was a lonely woman | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
sitting in this big lonely house | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
with her only friends, the animals, around her. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
Joan turned in on herself, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
a woman in her late forties who'd lost her place in the world. | 0:14:55 | 0:15:00 | |
For the better part of a decade, she spent much of her time tending to her land and feeding her animals, | 0:15:00 | 0:15:06 | |
as the Africa around her changed. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:08 | |
And Nelson Mandela walks to freedom, | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
betraying only the hesitation that comes of a man thrust into the spotlight again after 27 years. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:17 | |
..the Hutu exodus from Rwanda continues. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:21 | |
Today, a constant stream of frightened people made the crossing to Zaire. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:25 | |
They're fleeing what may be... | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
..the scale of the crisis is evident... | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
It was the lake that gave her a renewed purpose. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
In the mid-'90s, more than a decade after her split from Alan, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
she started noticing changes in its levels, | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
and the behaviour patterns of the plant and wildlife it sustained. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:48 | |
The outside world, in the form of industry, could no longer be ignored. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:54 | |
She loved nature. That was her life. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
She cared about the great infrastructure of nature and how it worked, | 0:15:59 | 0:16:05 | |
and how one small change in nature can have such a big chain reaction. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:12 | |
She was looking at it from a complete ecological standpoint. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
Things were changing on that lake. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
She saw the effects of the lake going down and coming back up, the different algae that was produced, | 0:16:21 | 0:16:26 | |
the different things that would start growing at certain times of the year, | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
and she was concerned about why the ecology of the lake was changing. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:34 | |
It didn't surprise me when she started to concentrate on the lake | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
because it's such a personal thing, you know, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
we had several hundred yards of lake frontage which had once been pristine and untouched, | 0:16:46 | 0:16:53 | |
and the odd fisherman would go past in his canoe and wave. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
And then suddenly, she'd have 50 acres just down the road is covered in plastic. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:03 | |
They were pumping water straight out of the lake, | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
there were pollutants going back into the lake in the form of pesticides and fertiliser and so on. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:16 | |
And so I think she had a very good case against them. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:21 | |
And once she took it up, I knew she'd be passionate and militant about it. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:28 | |
There's a timeless feeling on this lake, but things are changing here. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:33 | |
The woods that once cloaked the surrounding hills have mostly been felled. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
And now the lake itself may be facing new threats from man. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:42 | |
The threats come from the flower farmers that have burgeoned | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
on the shores of Lake Naivasha, roses and carnations for the living rooms of Europe. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
The flower industry started more or less probably by accident | 0:17:56 | 0:18:01 | |
in the late '70s with two companies, a Danish company called DCK and Oserian. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:07 | |
Both these companies were really struggling like pioneers do, | 0:18:08 | 0:18:12 | |
and last minute they got it right | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
and actually paved the way for the industry. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
On the back of these two companies, many other entrepreneurs jumped on the bandwagon. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:26 | |
Infrastructure on the farms was developed, infrastructure in Nairobi was developed. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:31 | |
The freighters started to coming in and it sort of developed | 0:18:31 | 0:18:35 | |
into a serious exporting business for this country which, at this point, | 0:18:35 | 0:18:41 | |
can be considered as probably one of the biggest success stories in sub-Saharan Africa. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:47 | |
Walk into any supermarket, you'll notice flower displays placed strategically near the door. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:52 | |
We spend £750 million a year on cut flowers from supermarkets and they deliver big profit margins. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:58 | |
Flower growing is Kenya's big success story, | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
fast catching up with coffee and tea as its top employer, and a major export earner. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:07 | |
The large farms employ anything up to 4,000 workers each, | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
they come from all over the country to this Mecca of employment. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
Most of these immigrants end up living in slums. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
Prior to the 1980s, it was just people living here, it was a small community. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
But once the flower industry started, that requires a lot of employees, | 0:19:27 | 0:19:33 | |
and suddenly Naivasha boomed and expanded big-time. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:39 | |
A lot of migrant workers moved in and with them come more people again, | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
because there's a service industry as well for people who have a wage. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
The problem is that the pressure around the edge of the lake from the horticultural industry | 0:19:53 | 0:19:58 | |
and the people who work in the horticultural industry together | 0:19:58 | 0:20:03 | |
are creating what scientists call "eutrophication", | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
which just means the lake is over-fertilised, overfed really. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
The algal growth gets thicker, | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
it becomes a pea soup at times. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
The end species that thrive in the highest concentrations produce toxins | 0:20:22 | 0:20:28 | |
and when they're in really, really high concentrations, | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
the toxins that get into the water are in a high enough concentration to cause damage to mammals. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:39 | |
Joan saw that the increase of the development and the agricultural development | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
and the industry round the lake was actually the prime cause | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
of the changes on the lake. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
She was not afraid of standing up and voicing her opinions. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
She wasn't afraid of standing up and actually implementing her opinions, | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
if she thought that they would have an impact, | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
Joan helped to persuade the flower farms to stop building on riparian land, | 0:21:09 | 0:21:14 | |
the delicate band bordering the lake that is crucial to the local plant and wildlife. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:20 | |
She joined a growing campaign to reduce their use of fertilisers and pesticides. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:25 | |
She drew attention to the millions of gallons they were siphoning weekly to water their product. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:31 | |
Then she took on another, more sensitive issue. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
As people continued to flood into the area, | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
desperate for work on the flower farms, they and their families needed to eat. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:48 | |
They turned to the lake for free food. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
By 1998, Lake Naivasha was dangerously low on fish. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:56 | |
The local department of fisheries was powerless in the face of this assault on the lake. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:20 | |
Its enforcement staff consisted of just three men and a boat, often with no fuel to power it. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:26 | |
With the department's support, Joan stepped in with a plan | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
that went beyond the one year fishing ban already being discussed. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:36 | |
We were literally running out of fish, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
so it was agreed that the fishing on the lake should be shut down totally for a whole year, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:44 | |
but, of course, it didn't stop the illegal poachers, | 0:22:44 | 0:22:48 | |
who were dragging their nets through the shallow waters, | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
which is an illegal way of fishing, does a lot of harm to the submerged vegetation | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
and takes out all the baby fish before they've had a chance to grow big enough to breed, | 0:22:56 | 0:23:02 | |
which of course totally went against everything that Joan believed in. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:07 | |
The poachers were unbelievably bold. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
You would see them in the riparian land of many of the flower farms, | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
fishing with complete impunity because they knew nobody was going to come and challenge them. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:20 | |
They were quite capable of being violent, quite capable of attacking anybody. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
So she went off and thought, "Well, what's the best way of dealing with this? | 0:23:29 | 0:23:35 | |
"Let's get poachers, turn them into gamekeepers." Good idea, good plan. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
Enter Mr Chege. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
Mr Chege was very, very plausible. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
He was a very, very intelligent young man. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
He was a great marketing man, he was a great communicator, and he got Joan's confidence. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:52 | |
She put together, with him, a little task force | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
that ranged from eight people to 15 people just to control and make sure fishing was protected | 0:23:56 | 0:24:03 | |
so that you didn't overfish the lake. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
"February 3rd, 2001. Spoke with Chege. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
"He came up with good points, illustrating bad fishing methods. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
"I spoke about my plan to patrol with 15 guys. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
"Nets - 19 x 3½ inch three-ply. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
"1 x 3½ inch three-ply. 3x3 inch two-ply. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
"5x4 inch two-ply. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
"500g nylon wire, | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
"one 400g nylon wire..." | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
For a while it did very good work. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
The number of nets that they managed to confiscate was unbelievable. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:18 | |
There were always a mountain of them in her back yard. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
Chege and team pulled up about 40 2x2½ two-ply nets. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:27 | |
Long talks with Chege about their operation. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
Yesterday they went to Kabonge where they burnt ten boats and caught three poachers. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:35 | |
There's no Swahili word for "poachers". | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
It's a colonial word. It's bad, it's evil. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:19 | |
Any poacher is something that has to be eliminated. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
Poachers don't know where to put themselves, because they're not evil. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
They're ordinary people just trying to make a living. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:29 | |
They don't see any way they've wronged. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
They've not gone to steal, they've not gone to kill anybody, they're not even stealing nets. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:37 | |
They've only gone to fish in a God-given lake. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:40 | |
"Naivasha Fisheries Report. Two years leading up to April 2003. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:48 | |
"Improved sizes of fish leading to partial..." | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
"General improvement on shoreline ecology..." | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
"Confiscation of over 3,000 illegal fishing nets and more than six arrests..." | 0:26:53 | 0:26:58 | |
"Arrests of over 400 suspects." | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
The poachers Joan was trying to eliminate were like most | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
of the 350,000 people living in the slums that now surrounded the lake. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:09 | |
Only one in ten had found employment on the farms. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:15 | |
The rest scraped out livings as best they could. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:19 | |
The flower industry is directly responsible for the slums. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:24 | |
I'm not talking necessarily every flower farm, | 0:27:24 | 0:27:28 | |
but the flower industry in Naivasha, | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
I think one could say, must be responsible for the slums. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:35 | |
Firstly, because their workers come from there, they're not housed on-site, | 0:27:35 | 0:27:40 | |
and, secondly, because they have | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
indirectly encouraged the massive growth of satellite industries | 0:27:43 | 0:27:48 | |
and migration of people into this area who weren't here before, | 0:27:48 | 0:27:53 | |
who have come to look for jobs | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
or to be supported by the one or two of their family who have jobs on the flower farms. | 0:27:55 | 0:28:00 | |
Where do these people get their firewood? Where do they get their charcoal for cooking? | 0:28:09 | 0:28:14 | |
Where do they get their meat? | 0:28:14 | 0:28:17 | |
A family of five uses one bag of charcoal a month. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:24 | |
Now, there is 60,000 households around Naivasha, where do they get their charcoal? | 0:28:24 | 0:28:30 | |
It has to come from the catchment. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
Is there any trees specifically planted | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
to be able to meet the charcoal demand so it can help counter the deforestation of the catchment? No. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:40 | |
Joan knew that the disappearing fish | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
were just part of the larger environmental destruction of Naivasha. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
What she didn't know, or perhaps chose not to acknowledge, | 0:28:50 | 0:28:54 | |
was that the fish the poachers didn't eat they sold onto middle men, | 0:28:54 | 0:28:59 | |
who were part of a criminal industry that stretched all the way to the capital of Nairobi. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:04 | |
I did worry about her. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:10 | |
Where food is concerned, it's a big issue in this country, especially if you're white, | 0:29:10 | 0:29:15 | |
especially when you've got enough food and there's people, | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
you know, around the place that are all looking for the cheapest source of protein they can get. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:24 | |
I suppose a lot of people were making a lot of money from those under-sized fish. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:29 | |
There's a consumer, there's a buyer, there's a wholesaler, so if they're not getting... | 0:29:29 | 0:29:33 | |
if she's making it difficult for these tiny fish to be sold, | 0:29:33 | 0:29:38 | |
then that's very much infringing on their business. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
But if Joan knew, she didn't let it stop her. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:54 | |
She had bankrolled the task force for four years now | 0:29:54 | 0:29:57 | |
and watched with mounting excitement as the fish returned to the lake in healthy, marketable sizes. | 0:29:57 | 0:30:03 | |
The fishermen were relieved because they were back to earning a living. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:11 | |
The community was happy. There were now plenty of fish to buy at market. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:16 | |
To celebrate, she and the fisheries department held a public burning | 0:30:18 | 0:30:22 | |
of the thousands of nets they'd confiscated. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:25 | |
Joan's mission was succeeding. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
The task force filled a big empty space. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
She was part of a gang, in a way. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:37 | |
I think it was, you know, quite exciting. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
She was able to achieve something. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:43 | |
Every day, she had to get up and do something that was quite compelling. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:46 | |
But as time went on, questions were starting to be raised | 0:30:55 | 0:30:59 | |
about the motives and methods of the man Joan had put in charge. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:05 | |
"Payments to Chege, 9th of November 700 shillings, 25th of December..." | 0:31:30 | 0:31:34 | |
Chege grew up in the slums | 0:32:18 | 0:32:21 | |
in that young, changing Kenya with limited opportunities. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:27 | |
Joan grew up with almost, what you would say, unlimited opportunities, | 0:32:27 | 0:32:33 | |
and then went to pursue wildlife photography and wildlife conservation, | 0:32:33 | 0:32:39 | |
which in itself is almost a different class from the realities of what Kenya is, | 0:32:39 | 0:32:44 | |
a changing country, a new generation coming, hungry, wanting to be able to take also opportunities. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:49 | |
Joan, she wanted to preserve the lake as natural and pristine as she'd seen it in her lifetime. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:57 | |
To Chege, here is a way, a vehicle to make all the money he want. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:05 | |
What is conservation? | 0:33:05 | 0:33:08 | |
Well, I don't think Chege really understood what conservation is. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:12 | |
From a poacher who was humble and trying to sell his fish, | 0:33:16 | 0:33:20 | |
given the power, he became an absolute dictator | 0:33:20 | 0:33:24 | |
with the total power to crush things. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:28 | |
He realised within no time that, "I am the man, I have the power," | 0:33:29 | 0:33:34 | |
and he used those powers brutally. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:36 | |
They fight. You've got to retaliate, haven't you? | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
And retaliation is arresting someone with the minimum of amount of force necessary, which you can do, | 0:34:14 | 0:34:21 | |
but sometimes, you know, you go too far, | 0:34:21 | 0:34:26 | |
or one is able to go too far. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:28 | |
SHOUTING | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
They were the force. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:39 | |
They were the law. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:41 | |
There was no need for court - they were the court. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:45 | |
So they had the right to beat you up, the right to humiliate you as much as they want | 0:34:45 | 0:34:50 | |
and inflict any fee they deem fit within the time. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:55 | |
But to the local realities, we want food. | 0:34:56 | 0:35:00 | |
The task force did not realise that this is a life-and-death question. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:06 | |
They have to feed their families. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:09 | |
They have to have a living. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:11 | |
By early 2004, a war had broken out on the lake, | 0:35:15 | 0:35:19 | |
with both sides resorting to increasingly desperate measures. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:24 | |
Then an incident involving a young poacher named Joseph Ojare changed everything. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:31 | |
I go to the hospital, | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
and I find Ojare there to the hospital crying, | 0:36:33 | 0:36:38 | |
serious crying. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:40 | |
He told me, "Andrew, I was beaten serious. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:47 | |
"I was beaten my whole body." | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
"By who?" | 0:36:57 | 0:36:59 | |
He told me, "Mr Chege | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
"and all of task force." | 0:37:02 | 0:37:06 | |
There was no evidence that Chege had been personally responsible for the assault. | 0:37:35 | 0:37:41 | |
But as rumours spread through the slums, human-rights organisations began to scrutinise the case. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:48 | |
The task force was facing a public-relations disaster. | 0:37:48 | 0:37:52 | |
Gaymer and Chege know if this man is here, | 0:37:54 | 0:37:59 | |
they will be prosecuted, because human right... | 0:37:59 | 0:38:05 | |
.they will follow this channel up to the police commissioner, | 0:38:06 | 0:38:11 | |
so they know this is a serious case. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:15 | |
So what we have to do, | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
we have to... | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
take this man away. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
And they go to the hospital | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
and tell the man, "Leave about human right. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:32 | |
"They cannot help you, they cannot give you money, you leave about them. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:37 | |
"We want to give you 50,000 | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
"and hide you away from Naivasha." | 0:38:40 | 0:38:42 | |
Ojare returned to his village. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:48 | |
Several weeks later, he died from complications from surgery to repair his broken leg. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:55 | |
In that story, the man was in the hospital | 0:38:56 | 0:39:00 | |
and you or Chege paid for him to go home because this was going to become... | 0:39:00 | 0:39:06 | |
-an issue for the task force. Is that true? -Correct. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:11 | |
But Joan paid, not me. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
What exactly did she do - Joan? | 0:39:14 | 0:39:17 | |
I think through Chege | 0:39:17 | 0:39:19 | |
they went and paid the hospital bill and got the man out and gave him enough money to get home. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:25 | |
And their reasoning was...? | 0:39:25 | 0:39:27 | |
There was going to be more trouble had he remained with a broken leg | 0:39:27 | 0:39:31 | |
and everyone could point a finger at the task force. | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
So Joan actually paid. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:38 | |
Joan paid. | 0:39:38 | 0:39:40 | |
Joan paid a lot of money on things like that, | 0:39:40 | 0:39:44 | |
and I'm sure she paid a lot that I didn't know about and never got to know about. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:49 | |
News of Ojare's death spread around the lake. | 0:39:58 | 0:40:01 | |
The task force and anyone associated with it were now perceived to have blood on their hands. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:07 | |
Ojare's death was part of a changing Naivasha. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:56 | |
By early 2005, the area had become a hotbed of violent crime. | 0:40:56 | 0:41:02 | |
Rapes, car jackings and armed robberies were common. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:05 | |
Whites and blacks alike were being murdered, sometimes for as little as 50 or a mobile phone. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:12 | |
Yet people kept coming, | 0:41:14 | 0:41:16 | |
lured by the dream of getting some of the run-off from the riches of the flower industry. | 0:41:16 | 0:41:21 | |
The industry was now a global player, one of the top three flower producers in the world. | 0:41:21 | 0:41:27 | |
Over 20,000 employees and their families are dependent | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
on the flower-growing companies around Lake Naivasha. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:34 | |
Flying them to the USA, Canada. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:37 | |
A lot of countries, from France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, | 0:41:37 | 0:41:41 | |
Far East, Japan, Poland, Scandinavian countries. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:47 | |
It's extremely important to Kenya economically. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:51 | |
It's an industry of which we are very proud. We are trying to do our best. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
What's happened here in Naivasha is a form of industrial progress. | 0:41:55 | 0:42:00 | |
Industrial progress demands compromise. | 0:42:00 | 0:42:04 | |
To the eye, if you come here into Naivasha coming from the escarpment | 0:42:06 | 0:42:10 | |
and you see these acres and acres and acres of plastic, | 0:42:10 | 0:42:15 | |
yeah, of course it looks different than 30, 35 years ago, | 0:42:15 | 0:42:19 | |
where there was no plastic and no shanty towns, and no everything, and it was absolutely pristine. | 0:42:19 | 0:42:25 | |
I could run down a 1½ hour list of projects | 0:42:30 | 0:42:35 | |
which have been done by the private sector around Lake Naivasha which is actually not our responsibility. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:42 | |
Schools are not our responsibility, roads are not our responsibility, | 0:42:42 | 0:42:47 | |
hospitals are not our responsibility. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:50 | |
At the end of the day, half the schools wouldn't be here | 0:42:50 | 0:42:53 | |
if there wouldn't be flower farms, and half the hospitals wouldn't be here. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
The huge number of flower farms | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
in Naivasha at the moment is unsustainable. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:11 | |
It is going to kill the lake. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:13 | |
Because the flower has to be fed. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:19 | |
It has to have that constant water to meet the market dates and to meet the required production standards. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:26 | |
A rose is 70% water, | 0:43:28 | 0:43:32 | |
and it's flown all over the world, | 0:43:32 | 0:43:34 | |
every single day, 365 days, constantly. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:41 | |
That is Naivasha water pumped out of the area and flown all over the world every single day. | 0:43:41 | 0:43:48 | |
Joan was very realistic and realised that this was just part of the way it was going, | 0:44:00 | 0:44:06 | |
development was the human way of life. | 0:44:06 | 0:44:09 | |
Because of the encroachment of the farms, the greenhouses, | 0:44:13 | 0:44:18 | |
the development and all the rest of it, | 0:44:18 | 0:44:21 | |
she really felt that there should be some place that was | 0:44:21 | 0:44:26 | |
in its natural, untouched virgin state. | 0:44:26 | 0:44:29 | |
She wanted her land to be an example to others | 0:44:33 | 0:44:37 | |
of what this area used to be like. | 0:44:37 | 0:44:40 | |
And I think her passion for what she did here was a silent protest. | 0:44:41 | 0:44:48 | |
In May 2005, John Sutton, a security consultant | 0:45:08 | 0:45:12 | |
hired by Naivasha landowners to reduce crime around the lake, | 0:45:12 | 0:45:16 | |
rented the cottage adjoining Joan's house. | 0:45:16 | 0:45:20 | |
He was immediately struck by Joan's connection to her land. | 0:45:20 | 0:45:24 | |
You could see that it was very much part of her being, her existence. | 0:45:26 | 0:45:31 | |
She was like part of it. It was like she had roots in the ground. | 0:45:31 | 0:45:35 | |
When she was moving, her steps and everything was like just part of it. | 0:45:35 | 0:45:39 | |
She would stand still and the mongooses would be around her, and wild animals, | 0:45:39 | 0:45:45 | |
but they weren't afraid. | 0:45:45 | 0:45:47 | |
I was fascinated by this connection to nature. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:53 | |
It was something I'd never, ever experienced or seen in my life before. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:59 | |
Amazing. Er, she was really in tune. | 0:45:59 | 0:46:02 | |
It wasn't long before Sutton discovered that not everything was as harmonious as it seemed. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:21 | |
Joan had a Stone sign that had JR written and painted on it. | 0:46:23 | 0:46:28 | |
I started finding that stone in different places. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:32 | |
I found it upside down, I'd find it in the tree, | 0:46:32 | 0:46:35 | |
I found it with what looked like blood had been poured on it. | 0:46:35 | 0:46:41 | |
Sometimes I'd come to the second gate and there was a chicken, not stuffed. | 0:46:42 | 0:46:47 | |
It had been put with straw on the gate. | 0:46:47 | 0:46:49 | |
I was worried, because witchcraft in this part of the world is serious stuff. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:59 | |
When I confronted Joan about the situation, she told me it had been going on quite some time | 0:47:01 | 0:47:07 | |
and she explained that it was a neighbour thing and that it was actually a personal feud. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:13 | |
I said, "OK, but perhaps we should get the neighbour over to come and talk and maybe find out what's..." | 0:47:15 | 0:47:21 | |
"Oh, no, no. I can't. She won't come and talk to me. She hates me." | 0:47:21 | 0:47:25 | |
I said, "What do you mean, she hates you?" | 0:47:25 | 0:47:28 | |
"Oh, yes, she hates me. That's another story." | 0:47:28 | 0:47:30 | |
For as long has Joan had lived in Naivasha, Diana Bunny had been her neighbour. | 0:47:32 | 0:47:38 | |
Like Joan, she'd been born into the colonial world. | 0:47:38 | 0:47:42 | |
Her grandparents had arrived as missionaries early in the century | 0:47:42 | 0:47:46 | |
and her father had been the local doctor for 40 years. | 0:47:46 | 0:47:51 | |
She, too, had a clear vision for her land. | 0:47:51 | 0:47:54 | |
It was a place of peace, | 0:47:56 | 0:47:58 | |
comfort, | 0:47:58 | 0:48:01 | |
joy and encouragement, and hope. | 0:48:01 | 0:48:05 | |
We've felt it was God's property. | 0:48:09 | 0:48:11 | |
When you come here, you feel God's presence here. It's different. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:18 | |
You feel the love and care. That's what people have said. | 0:48:18 | 0:48:24 | |
And they've loved coming, | 0:48:24 | 0:48:26 | |
and it's... | 0:48:26 | 0:48:28 | |
so warm and welcoming. | 0:48:28 | 0:48:31 | |
So that's the reputation it has had. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:34 | |
Since inheriting the 22-acre plot from her parents, | 0:48:42 | 0:48:47 | |
Diana, a single woman, had struggled to make ends meet. | 0:48:47 | 0:48:51 | |
For Joan, Diana's hardship presented an opportunity. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:56 | |
Joan wanted that land for the animals. | 0:48:56 | 0:48:59 | |
She wanted to leave it as it is, clean, wild for the animals, | 0:48:59 | 0:49:04 | |
which are lucky enough to get in there, to be there and be safe. | 0:49:04 | 0:49:07 | |
I think she was very worried that one day Diana would leave this to a church group | 0:49:07 | 0:49:12 | |
and it would all be sold for development in some way that Joan wouldn't have liked. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:17 | |
She told me that they were the best of friends, | 0:49:20 | 0:49:24 | |
and they were the best of friends until such time as she'd made a bid | 0:49:24 | 0:49:28 | |
and she'd wanted to buy that property. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:30 | |
And since then, that was it, they were absolute enemies. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:35 | |
"I have been very distressed and deeply hurt since I received your letter..." | 0:49:35 | 0:49:39 | |
"I should be careful before throwing out false accusations. | 0:49:39 | 0:49:43 | |
"I too am heartily sick of incidents that have happened..." | 0:49:43 | 0:49:47 | |
"It is very upsetting when what I do or say is misconstrued. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:51 | |
"Please let me know what..." "No-one can underestimate God's power. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:55 | |
"And as I have told many people, this is God's property." | 0:49:55 | 0:50:00 | |
We were very friendly with her, | 0:50:00 | 0:50:03 | |
invited her over, | 0:50:03 | 0:50:06 | |
but behind one's back the terrible things she said | 0:50:06 | 0:50:12 | |
were not true | 0:50:12 | 0:50:15 | |
and trying to just get us out, really. | 0:50:15 | 0:50:19 | |
It was all quite a dangerous game. | 0:50:20 | 0:50:23 | |
Sutton discovered that the feud with her neighbour wasn't the only intrigue in Joan's life. | 0:50:33 | 0:50:39 | |
By now, Joan had downscaled the task force to Chege and four others | 0:50:40 | 0:50:45 | |
whose only job was to patrol her lakefront. | 0:50:45 | 0:50:48 | |
Yet former members were still coming and going. | 0:50:48 | 0:50:52 | |
Joan was known to be generous, | 0:50:52 | 0:50:55 | |
but Sutton sensed that these men weren't looking for new jobs or handouts. | 0:50:55 | 0:51:00 | |
One evening, when Joan shared an ominous text message with him, | 0:51:01 | 0:51:06 | |
he got a glimpse of the complicated web in which she was caught. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:11 | |
I asked Joan, "What did this mean?" | 0:51:11 | 0:51:14 | |
And she said, "Well, | 0:51:14 | 0:51:17 | |
"what this is is members of the task force who are protecting me | 0:51:17 | 0:51:22 | |
"against illegal fishermen who we had apprehended during the time of the task force | 0:51:22 | 0:51:28 | |
"who now want to come and do me in." | 0:51:28 | 0:51:31 | |
I asked her, "How do you know it's happening?" "Well, I don't know," she said. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:40 | |
"I'm being told this by my main guy, because I trust him. | 0:51:40 | 0:51:45 | |
"He's protecting me. He's the only person that's protecting me from all these situations." | 0:51:45 | 0:51:50 | |
BARKING | 0:51:52 | 0:51:55 | |
I became very concerned. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:04 | |
I didn't understand this relationship, | 0:52:04 | 0:52:06 | |
I didn't understand where the levels of loyalty lay and so on. | 0:52:06 | 0:52:10 | |
And there were too many contradictions at that time. Things were not adding up. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:15 | |
Things were not right. | 0:52:15 | 0:52:18 | |
Sutton now feared for Joan's very safety. | 0:52:22 | 0:52:26 | |
Then he found out something that made him worry even more. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
Four months earlier, Joan had been car-jacked as she drove home from the bank with the staff's wages. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:36 | |
SHOUTING | 0:52:36 | 0:52:38 | |
The gang had slapped her around and stolen her phone and cash. | 0:52:38 | 0:52:42 | |
Some of her friends were suspicious that Chege had been involved, | 0:52:42 | 0:52:46 | |
a charge he'd vigorously denied and for which the police had found no evidence. | 0:52:46 | 0:52:51 | |
Joan's faith in him had never wavered. | 0:52:51 | 0:52:55 | |
Chege really had her confidence. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:57 | |
She liked him, she respected him, she thought that he had integrity. | 0:52:57 | 0:53:03 | |
She really thought that he was there for the reasons that she was there. | 0:53:03 | 0:53:08 | |
In actual fact, he wasn't. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:10 | |
It was very personal. | 0:53:10 | 0:53:12 | |
I don't suspect they were necessarily having a physical relationship, | 0:53:12 | 0:53:16 | |
but, spiritually, they were so entwined, that she was wrapped in that and he was the focal point. | 0:53:16 | 0:53:23 | |
"Dashed to meet Chege to give him 22,000 shillings." | 0:53:25 | 0:53:29 | |
"Chege phoned. Last night they ambushed at Bushey Island." | 0:53:29 | 0:53:32 | |
"Three of them were attacked by 18 men." | 0:53:32 | 0:53:34 | |
"Chege wrote me a letter wanting to buy a small motorbike." | 0:53:34 | 0:53:37 | |
"Chege came to tell me latest intrigues from Fisheries." | 0:53:37 | 0:53:39 | |
"Told Chege to send Umwara tomorrow as a spy." | 0:53:39 | 0:53:43 | |
"Chege came and we discussed Saturday and Sunday." | 0:53:43 | 0:53:47 | |
The more I questioned, the more I realised how... | 0:53:47 | 0:53:52 | |
wrapped up Joan was in this whole security situation. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:57 | |
It had become a way of life. It had entrapped her completely. | 0:53:57 | 0:54:03 | |
And it was almost like it was like a drug for her. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:07 | |
The intrigue, the mystique, | 0:54:09 | 0:54:12 | |
the cloak-and-dagger kind of scenarios, | 0:54:12 | 0:54:15 | |
it was an alternative existence to the outside world. | 0:54:17 | 0:54:22 | |
It was a life where she was in charge, she was in control, | 0:54:23 | 0:54:28 | |
where she was able to take care of herself. | 0:54:28 | 0:54:32 | |
And this was, I think, going back to perhaps... | 0:54:32 | 0:54:35 | |
The start of all that was the breakdown of when she departed from her previous marriage. | 0:54:35 | 0:54:43 | |
She talked about Alan quite a lot. | 0:54:55 | 0:54:58 | |
He was still, in a funny way, | 0:54:58 | 0:55:00 | |
a part of her life, in that he was very much a presence in her house. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:06 | |
The sitting room had the same covers on the sofa and the books on the shelves. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:14 | |
The dining room had stayed the same way. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:17 | |
Though she wanted to change the house, she couldn't bear to take away a lot of the memories. | 0:55:21 | 0:55:27 | |
She told me on several occasions that Alan was the only person | 0:55:29 | 0:55:34 | |
that she was able to share and experience nature | 0:55:34 | 0:55:40 | |
in the way that she loved to do it. | 0:55:40 | 0:55:43 | |
There was nobody that she could walk around in the bush with, | 0:55:45 | 0:55:50 | |
and they would both notice and be interested in exactly the same things. | 0:55:50 | 0:55:55 | |
She really, really missed that. | 0:55:57 | 0:56:00 | |
She really missed... | 0:56:00 | 0:56:02 | |
being with him. | 0:56:02 | 0:56:05 | |
And, erm... | 0:56:05 | 0:56:07 | |
..I think she always thought they'd be together again. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:16 | |
And she came over one evening with a letter that I think he'd written to quite a few friends. | 0:56:16 | 0:56:23 | |
She read the letter to me with tears in her eyes. | 0:56:23 | 0:56:28 | |
It was the realisation that they weren't going to be together again, | 0:56:31 | 0:56:35 | |
and the letter was basically saying that he had met Fran and that they were going to have a baby together. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:41 | |
And I suppose that was the end of a dream and a hope that she'd had. | 0:56:41 | 0:56:45 | |
"Long talk with John about the task force. | 0:56:52 | 0:56:55 | |
"He advised me to completely close down, get rid of Chege and all five of them. | 0:56:55 | 0:57:01 | |
"At night, stayed awake worrying what to do about Chege." | 0:57:01 | 0:57:06 | |
For weeks, a member of Joan's house staff had been stealing money from her bedroom. | 0:57:12 | 0:57:18 | |
When she discovered that the thief had a close connection to Chege, she finally accepted that he had to go. | 0:57:18 | 0:57:24 | |
I said to Joan, "Remember the laws of the land, the perception of the laws of the land. | 0:57:26 | 0:57:31 | |
"You're going to have to pay him off." | 0:57:31 | 0:57:33 | |
I said, "When you do pay him off, you'd better be generous, | 0:57:33 | 0:57:37 | |
"because you don't want anybody coming back in the back door saying, 'You didn't see me.'" | 0:57:37 | 0:57:42 | |
Joan reached a settlement with Chege and found him a job in western Kenya. | 0:57:45 | 0:57:50 | |
He and his family left Naivasha. | 0:57:50 | 0:57:53 | |
Two weeks later, Sutton had a rude awakening. | 0:57:55 | 0:57:59 | |
SHOUTING | 0:58:04 | 0:58:07 | |
ALARM SOUNDS | 0:58:07 | 0:58:10 | |
I heard this shouting. I stick my head out to see what was going on, | 0:58:10 | 0:58:14 | |
and I saw somebody running up, and he was shouting and shouting, "Mama has been taken. | 0:58:14 | 0:58:20 | |
"Mama has been taken." | 0:58:20 | 0:58:22 | |
SHOUTING | 0:58:22 | 0:58:24 | |
I thought, "Oh, my God, Joan's been attacked, she's been abducted and she's been taken down to the lake." | 0:58:27 | 0:58:34 | |
GUNSHOTS | 0:58:35 | 0:58:37 | |
I fired two shots into the air. | 0:58:37 | 0:58:41 | |
Within a couple of seconds after firing the two shots, | 0:58:41 | 0:58:45 | |
I heard another replying shot. | 0:58:45 | 0:58:48 | |
I rushed downstairs, and as I got to the door, my phone rang. | 0:58:49 | 0:58:53 | |
It was Joan saying, | 0:58:55 | 0:58:58 | |
"I'm OK, I'm OK." | 0:58:58 | 0:59:01 | |
And I said, "Joan, where are you?" | 0:59:01 | 0:59:03 | |
She said, "I'm in the staff quarters." | 0:59:03 | 0:59:05 | |
She'd managed to escape out the back door. | 0:59:08 | 0:59:12 | |
They had broken into the house. | 0:59:12 | 0:59:14 | |
The fact that they had gone through some drawers in the office | 0:59:14 | 0:59:17 | |
suggests there were some documents they were looking for. | 0:59:17 | 0:59:20 | |
I do know that Joan had been keeping some title deeds of land | 0:59:20 | 0:59:24 | |
whilst the staff were repaying the loan. | 0:59:24 | 0:59:28 | |
Joan had bought property for some of her staff, | 0:59:28 | 0:59:33 | |
including Chege. | 0:59:33 | 0:59:35 | |
I don't think she chose to read clearly the signs - | 0:59:53 | 0:59:57 | |
too proud, too sucked into the energy of being... | 0:59:57 | 1:00:02 | |
in her home, on her land. | 1:00:02 | 1:00:06 | |
Perhaps had lost sight of... | 1:00:06 | 1:00:09 | |
the fact that life would go on on her lawn without her. | 1:00:09 | 1:00:14 | |
Perhaps scared to move. | 1:00:14 | 1:00:16 | |
Perhaps... I don't know. It wasn't... It wasn't... | 1:00:16 | 1:00:20 | |
She shouldn't have stayed. | 1:00:20 | 1:00:23 | |
I would say to her, "Joan, | 1:00:29 | 1:00:31 | |
"you need to go on holiday. Just go on holiday. | 1:00:31 | 1:00:36 | |
"Just tell everybody you're old, you're tired, you need a break. | 1:00:36 | 1:00:40 | |
"Just tell everybody. And don't tell them when you're going, just one day you're not there." | 1:00:40 | 1:00:46 | |
I was trying to get her out of the environment, | 1:00:50 | 1:00:53 | |
it was getting to the point whereby it was threatening her security. | 1:00:53 | 1:00:57 | |
It really was threatening her security. | 1:00:57 | 1:01:00 | |
I'd been going to her house once a week for a few months | 1:01:08 | 1:01:13 | |
and I'd never been invited in, not even onto the veranda. | 1:01:13 | 1:01:18 | |
Well, after her murder I find all the security she's putting in the house. I knew nothing about it. | 1:01:18 | 1:01:24 | |
I believe she kept me out of the house because she didn't want me | 1:01:30 | 1:01:33 | |
to find out that she was going to that extent of putting security in | 1:01:33 | 1:01:39 | |
to save her life, and she must have been very worried about something. | 1:01:39 | 1:01:43 | |
"Chege and Esther back in Karagita. | 1:01:48 | 1:01:51 | |
"Chege trying to get a job through Barry. Barry been informed." | 1:01:51 | 1:01:54 | |
"Very stressed pm. | 1:01:54 | 1:01:57 | |
"John phoned to say he'd rushed to Nairobi for emergency. | 1:01:57 | 1:02:01 | |
"Then power cut. No supper cooked. That night felt insecure so soon after break-in, and John away." | 1:02:01 | 1:02:09 | |
As 2005 drew to a close, Sutton was often away on business across the continent. | 1:02:11 | 1:02:17 | |
Joan was increasingly alone in her house. | 1:02:17 | 1:02:21 | |
On the night of January 12th 2006, | 1:02:22 | 1:02:25 | |
Sutton was 400 miles away in Tanzania. | 1:02:25 | 1:02:29 | |
It was about...about midnight when I got the first phone call. | 1:02:39 | 1:02:44 | |
PHONE RINGS | 1:02:44 | 1:02:46 | |
Joan said, "They're back. They're here." I couldn't understand what she was going... | 1:02:50 | 1:02:55 | |
and then I heard the siren going again and I knew that intruders had come into the house. | 1:02:55 | 1:03:02 | |
She said, "They're trying to get in through my bedroom door." | 1:03:05 | 1:03:08 | |
I told her to get down and go to the bathroom, | 1:03:12 | 1:03:17 | |
"Stay put. I'll call for help." | 1:03:17 | 1:03:20 | |
SHOUTING | 1:03:20 | 1:03:22 | |
I called the police. | 1:03:23 | 1:03:25 | |
I called the people and said that there was an attack taking place at Joan Root's premises. | 1:03:25 | 1:03:31 | |
I then had another phone call within, I don't know, | 1:03:31 | 1:03:35 | |
a minute, not even, perhaps. Can't remember exactly. | 1:03:35 | 1:03:40 | |
And Joan was now talking to me. | 1:03:40 | 1:03:42 | |
SHOUTING CONTINUES | 1:03:42 | 1:03:44 | |
I could hear people shouting for her to open the door to let them in. | 1:03:49 | 1:03:54 | |
BANGING | 1:03:54 | 1:03:56 | |
She was sobbing and just kept calling out my name. | 1:03:57 | 1:04:01 | |
And I could hear this banging going on, | 1:04:02 | 1:04:06 | |
and I thought they were using a sledge hammer to bash the metal door down, | 1:04:06 | 1:04:12 | |
but I knew that as long as those doors held they wouldn't get in. | 1:04:12 | 1:04:16 | |
She was obviously very afraid. | 1:04:23 | 1:04:25 | |
But she wasn't hysterical, she was just kind of sobbing, and she was out of breath. | 1:04:26 | 1:04:32 | |
She was obviously in shock. | 1:04:32 | 1:04:35 | |
She was afraid. | 1:04:35 | 1:04:37 | |
And, um... | 1:04:37 | 1:04:39 | |
..her voice got lower and lower. | 1:04:40 | 1:04:43 | |
I thought she was talking, just quietly talking just so they wouldn't hear her | 1:04:48 | 1:04:54 | |
but she didn't want to disconnect, she wanted just to talk, | 1:04:54 | 1:04:58 | |
she wanted to hear somebody's voice or something. I don't know. | 1:04:58 | 1:05:02 | |
And I was just reassuring her. | 1:05:02 | 1:05:04 | |
Her voice just...faded away. | 1:05:07 | 1:05:10 | |
And it just got quieter and quieter and quieter, and then stopped. | 1:05:10 | 1:05:15 | |
I heard a few more bangs. | 1:05:21 | 1:05:23 | |
I disconnected the phone. | 1:05:25 | 1:05:27 | |
I called again the cops and said, "For God's sakes, you're running out of time. | 1:05:27 | 1:05:32 | |
"Get there before they get in." | 1:05:32 | 1:05:34 | |
They arrived at the house. | 1:05:36 | 1:05:38 | |
They said, "The lights are off, but we can see inside, | 1:05:38 | 1:05:42 | |
"and there's a huge... | 1:05:42 | 1:05:45 | |
"..you know, sort of marks of blood on the floor | 1:05:46 | 1:05:51 | |
"and it's leading into what looks like the bathroom." | 1:05:51 | 1:05:55 | |
I tried calling her back. | 1:05:56 | 1:05:59 | |
They said, "No, we can hear the phone ringing in the bathroom." | 1:05:59 | 1:06:02 | |
I knew that... I knew what had happened. | 1:06:04 | 1:06:07 | |
PHONE RINGS | 1:06:08 | 1:06:11 | |
They found Joan in the bathroom lying on her side, | 1:06:11 | 1:06:15 | |
holding the phone next to her. | 1:06:15 | 1:06:18 | |
Her sobbing and everything - she had obviously been hit. | 1:06:20 | 1:06:23 | |
Her voice fading away, that was her last breath of life. | 1:06:23 | 1:06:27 | |
And I was sitting in a hotel... | 1:06:29 | 1:06:33 | |
..hundreds of miles away. Couldn't do anything. | 1:06:34 | 1:06:37 | |
Couldn't do anything for her. | 1:06:37 | 1:06:41 | |
That was the first time I'd been back for 15 years. | 1:07:30 | 1:07:35 | |
Er, and, you know, outside was just the same, | 1:07:35 | 1:07:39 | |
just the fabulous views, the peace, the animals and birds. | 1:07:39 | 1:07:43 | |
They all came out to say hello. | 1:07:43 | 1:07:46 | |
And then the scene inside, | 1:07:46 | 1:07:48 | |
just of the sort of fortress that she'd turned the place into, | 1:07:48 | 1:07:53 | |
and then, you know... | 1:07:53 | 1:07:55 | |
the bullets stuck in the furniture and the blood everywhere, and... | 1:07:55 | 1:08:01 | |
just such a contrast. | 1:08:01 | 1:08:04 | |
The police were all there, and they were introduced to me and knew who I was, | 1:08:17 | 1:08:22 | |
and so within a short time they opened the house to us, | 1:08:22 | 1:08:28 | |
which was actually quite strange to me, | 1:08:28 | 1:08:31 | |
because I would have thought that they would still be there | 1:08:31 | 1:08:34 | |
trying to find whatever they needed to find or what forensics needed to be done and so on. | 1:08:34 | 1:08:40 | |
We found several bullets in there, | 1:08:40 | 1:08:43 | |
in the mattress and places like that, which I thought they would've done during the night, | 1:08:43 | 1:08:47 | |
but they didn't. | 1:08:47 | 1:08:49 | |
We think that they came straight round the back of the house, | 1:08:51 | 1:08:56 | |
directly to her bedroom window. | 1:08:56 | 1:08:58 | |
I'm convinced it was a contract murder. | 1:09:01 | 1:09:05 | |
I'm convinced of that, absolutely convinced of it. | 1:09:05 | 1:09:08 | |
Police in Tanzania are hunting the killers of a British filmmaker, Joan Root. | 1:09:11 | 1:09:16 | |
She was shot in what friends suspect was an act of retaliation for her conservation work. | 1:09:16 | 1:09:21 | |
The 69-year-old filmmaker and naturalist was shot | 1:09:21 | 1:09:24 | |
in the early hours of this morning at the farmhouse in Naivasha. | 1:09:24 | 1:09:28 | |
They tried to break the door, | 1:09:28 | 1:09:30 | |
and finally they catch up with her in the bedroom, | 1:09:30 | 1:09:34 | |
whereby they fired seven rounds of ammunition from supposedly an AK-47. | 1:09:34 | 1:09:40 | |
Police are using dogs to try to track the gunmen | 1:09:40 | 1:09:44 | |
and are under pressure, as this is the latest in a series of murders of white people in the Naivasha region. | 1:09:44 | 1:09:50 | |
Friends believe her stand against poachers cost her her life. | 1:09:50 | 1:09:55 | |
She was involved in dangerous ground, | 1:09:55 | 1:09:57 | |
and wherever you are trying to regulate an unregulated market | 1:09:57 | 1:10:04 | |
or impact on illegal activities, you're under threat. | 1:10:04 | 1:10:08 | |
So my first feeling was, of course, that perhaps this was | 1:10:08 | 1:10:14 | |
in some way the illegal fishermen getting back at her. | 1:10:14 | 1:10:17 | |
Immediately, I thought Chege would probably have been involved. | 1:10:22 | 1:10:27 | |
There were too many of Chege's family involved with Joan, | 1:10:27 | 1:10:32 | |
with either loans or title deeds or one thing or another. | 1:10:32 | 1:10:37 | |
They thought they would be better off with her out of the way. | 1:10:37 | 1:10:41 | |
Joan's murder was the most high-profile case in years, | 1:10:47 | 1:10:52 | |
and the police were under enormous pressure from the white community to find her killers. | 1:10:52 | 1:10:57 | |
Within 24 hours, a tracker dog identified three men from the slums. | 1:10:58 | 1:11:03 | |
The next day, Chege was also taken into custody. | 1:11:03 | 1:11:07 | |
While we are here to celebrate Joan's life and the many benefits it bestowed on us, | 1:11:11 | 1:11:16 | |
let us now allow our celebration that she lived become a cover or concealment for the way she died. | 1:11:16 | 1:11:23 | |
I can't imagine anything more terrifying for anyone | 1:11:27 | 1:11:32 | |
at two o'clock in the morning to have that happening, | 1:11:32 | 1:11:36 | |
and, you know, I wish to God she'd collected one in the head and gone down, | 1:11:36 | 1:11:42 | |
but instead of that she fought back | 1:11:42 | 1:11:45 | |
and dragged herself into the bathroom. | 1:11:45 | 1:11:49 | |
Joan was compassionate, to the point of being a soft touch. | 1:11:51 | 1:11:56 | |
Nowhere is this more evidenced than in the loans and help she offered, | 1:11:56 | 1:11:59 | |
not just to her own people, but others, too. | 1:11:59 | 1:12:03 | |
Indeed, it may have contributed to her fate. | 1:12:03 | 1:12:07 | |
I can't imagine that she screamed. I honestly can't imagine that she screamed. | 1:12:07 | 1:12:12 | |
And if for whatever reason you need to be forgiven by Joan, | 1:12:13 | 1:12:18 | |
let that forgiveness come now and let go of any hurt. | 1:12:18 | 1:12:23 | |
When I came up to talk, the crown cranes, who I just have a way with, | 1:12:34 | 1:12:39 | |
because I've always had cranes, came and danced around me. | 1:12:39 | 1:12:42 | |
If there was something you thought you still wanted to say to her... | 1:12:44 | 1:12:47 | |
It was just all so moving. | 1:12:50 | 1:12:52 | |
Everything we did back in those years together | 1:12:54 | 1:12:58 | |
she made possible. She was my right arm. | 1:12:58 | 1:13:02 | |
She was the wind beneath my wings. | 1:13:04 | 1:13:06 | |
And... | 1:13:09 | 1:13:11 | |
And if we flew high and far in those days, it was because of her. | 1:13:12 | 1:13:17 | |
Lots of tears. | 1:13:18 | 1:13:21 | |
And then it rained. | 1:13:23 | 1:13:26 | |
And, yeah, you can't have anything better in Kenya at a funeral or a wedding than for it to rain, | 1:13:26 | 1:13:32 | |
because it was dry as hell and they needed rain. | 1:13:32 | 1:13:35 | |
And a lot of people said, "Hey, she's up there and stirring it up already"! | 1:13:35 | 1:13:39 | |
THUNDER ROARS | 1:13:46 | 1:13:49 | |
Chege and the three other suspects languished in prison for more than a year before their case was heard. | 1:13:59 | 1:14:05 | |
The judge found them innocent, citing no evidence. | 1:14:06 | 1:14:11 | |
Chege and the others walked free. | 1:14:11 | 1:14:14 | |
This place just doesn't work. The sort of politically correct term I think is "poor governance", | 1:15:06 | 1:15:11 | |
but "poor" is a pretty mild term | 1:15:11 | 1:15:14 | |
to describe the sort of intellectually impoverished kleptocracy that run this place. | 1:15:14 | 1:15:21 | |
There was no way that there was going to be a proper trial with proper evidence. | 1:15:21 | 1:15:27 | |
Barry Gaymer and I found half the bullets in the room that the police hadn't bothered to look for, even. | 1:15:27 | 1:15:33 | |
The investigations that the police did were below par. | 1:15:33 | 1:15:39 | |
The evidence was governed in a very shallow manner. | 1:15:39 | 1:15:43 | |
Other than the shoes that were from the suspects, | 1:15:43 | 1:15:47 | |
there was nothing of worth from the exhibits that were taken from the scene. | 1:15:47 | 1:15:54 | |
Why? | 1:15:54 | 1:15:56 | |
There was a lot of interference from the white community here. | 1:15:56 | 1:16:02 | |
I do think... | 1:16:02 | 1:16:04 | |
the interference started from the scene of the crime. | 1:16:04 | 1:16:09 | |
The way things were being done by Luckhurst | 1:16:11 | 1:16:14 | |
and the other members of the community who were living there, | 1:16:14 | 1:16:18 | |
surely there is something they wanted to conceal. | 1:16:18 | 1:16:23 | |
The story was far from over. | 1:16:40 | 1:16:43 | |
Nearly a year and a half after Joan's death, | 1:16:43 | 1:16:46 | |
the circumstances surrounding it were once again the subject of speculation. | 1:16:46 | 1:16:51 | |
Her former neighbour, Diana Bunny, stood in the dock of the Naivasha courtroom. | 1:16:51 | 1:16:57 | |
She and her cook, James Ombui, | 1:16:57 | 1:16:59 | |
were charged with conspiracy to murder a former tenant of Diana, Brian Freeman. | 1:16:59 | 1:17:06 | |
For some people around the lake, the near-fatal attack on Freeman had disturbing echoes. | 1:17:06 | 1:17:13 | |
I had no idea who had murdered Joan at the time of her death. | 1:17:13 | 1:17:17 | |
But Naivasha being a small community, of course everybody talks, | 1:17:17 | 1:17:21 | |
and it soon became sort of common belief | 1:17:21 | 1:17:26 | |
that Chege had done it. And nobody really thought further than that. | 1:17:26 | 1:17:31 | |
It was only after the attempt on Mr Freeman's life that I and a few other people started to wonder | 1:17:31 | 1:17:39 | |
whether there wasn't a similarity or a connection | 1:17:39 | 1:17:42 | |
between his attempted murder and Joan's actual murder. | 1:17:42 | 1:17:47 | |
Initially, when we moved in, it was a very sound relationship, | 1:17:55 | 1:17:59 | |
but we'd only been in the property six months, and the water was turned off. | 1:17:59 | 1:18:05 | |
She said we hadn't been paying our bills, when, in fact, we'd been paying the agent. | 1:18:05 | 1:18:10 | |
And then it escalated. | 1:18:11 | 1:18:14 | |
The dog was poisoned. We had a whole load of chickens - they were thrown over the fence with broken legs. | 1:18:14 | 1:18:19 | |
We came across this mound of earth that had just been dug, looked in and there was this red pot. | 1:18:21 | 1:18:27 | |
And we know James is a Kysi man, we know that the Kysis are well known for their witchcraft - | 1:18:27 | 1:18:33 | |
we call it juju. | 1:18:33 | 1:18:35 | |
So, um... I immediately became suspicious. | 1:18:35 | 1:18:40 | |
Why was it laid in the middle of the road, our road? | 1:18:40 | 1:18:43 | |
Freeman barely survived the assault. | 1:18:47 | 1:18:50 | |
A bullet from an AK-47, the same model used in Joan's attack, shattered his left arm. | 1:18:50 | 1:18:57 | |
The gun had misfired when pointed at his head. | 1:18:57 | 1:19:01 | |
There's no doubt in my mind the person behind the attack was Diana and James. | 1:19:01 | 1:19:07 | |
I have since seen police statements | 1:19:07 | 1:19:11 | |
where they've admitted that they had meetings | 1:19:11 | 1:19:15 | |
with a Mr Fixit | 1:19:15 | 1:19:18 | |
who subsequently got the gang together | 1:19:18 | 1:19:22 | |
and, in fact, stayed with them for three or four days before the attack took place. | 1:19:22 | 1:19:27 | |
She paid. | 1:19:27 | 1:19:29 | |
So it was a contract, really, put on my life by them. | 1:19:29 | 1:19:32 | |
And I think the reason why was to get rid of me from the property. | 1:19:32 | 1:19:38 | |
I had shown an interest. | 1:19:38 | 1:19:40 | |
I have since learnt that because I showed that interest in buying the property | 1:19:40 | 1:19:45 | |
that they no longer wanted me to stay. | 1:19:45 | 1:19:47 | |
Someone told me that you'd confessed, you'd written some statement. | 1:19:51 | 1:19:56 | |
Erm, there was... I think it was under... | 1:19:56 | 1:20:00 | |
I just wasn't myself at all, and I don't even know what I'd... | 1:20:00 | 1:20:06 | |
I was forced to, er, write things that I didn't... | 1:20:06 | 1:20:11 | |
..even know I was writing. | 1:20:13 | 1:20:15 | |
But, admittedly, there were probably some weak points. | 1:20:15 | 1:20:18 | |
I haven't a clue what I wrote. | 1:20:18 | 1:20:20 | |
I wasn't in my right mind, | 1:20:20 | 1:20:23 | |
and I half-wondered if that was, erm, witchcraft, | 1:20:23 | 1:20:29 | |
because you really don't know what you're... | 1:20:29 | 1:20:33 | |
erm...doing. | 1:20:33 | 1:20:36 | |
Were you behind the Freeman attack? | 1:20:39 | 1:20:42 | |
Oh, no. | 1:20:42 | 1:20:44 | |
No. | 1:20:44 | 1:20:45 | |
I could never, never do that. | 1:20:45 | 1:20:48 | |
The only weak part was that some of the gangsters | 1:20:49 | 1:20:53 | |
were on the property, and I didn't know at the time they were... | 1:20:53 | 1:20:59 | |
Occasionally there was a room we let visitors go into, | 1:20:59 | 1:21:03 | |
James's visitors, as I thought at the time, but, erm... | 1:21:03 | 1:21:09 | |
There were just a couple of them, and I didn't know it at the time, which is terrible. | 1:21:09 | 1:21:14 | |
But other than that, | 1:21:14 | 1:21:16 | |
I'd never dream of doing anything like that. | 1:21:16 | 1:21:20 | |
Brian Freeman and his wife Esther had been living in Naivasha for only two months when Joan was killed. | 1:21:26 | 1:21:33 | |
Esther had been on their property the morning after the attack | 1:21:33 | 1:21:37 | |
and later told her husband what she'd seen and heard. | 1:21:37 | 1:21:41 | |
She said that... | 1:21:41 | 1:21:43 | |
Diana Bunny and James came across the fence. | 1:21:43 | 1:21:48 | |
James was talking to the staff, | 1:21:48 | 1:21:51 | |
telling them what he had learnt about the murder. | 1:21:51 | 1:21:56 | |
Diana immediately came up to Esther and said, "That evil woman is now dead. | 1:21:56 | 1:22:02 | |
"She's lying down dead. | 1:22:02 | 1:22:04 | |
"Thank God for that. She's no longer here." Words to that effect, | 1:22:04 | 1:22:08 | |
which surprised Esther very much. | 1:22:08 | 1:22:10 | |
Not only did she say it, but she gestured as if, you know, she was really pleased about it. | 1:22:10 | 1:22:17 | |
Her ongoing feud with Joan had made Diana feel her very physical safety was at risk. | 1:22:19 | 1:22:25 | |
Do you think Joan was literally trying to get rid of you? | 1:22:29 | 1:22:33 | |
Yes, she was. Yes. | 1:22:33 | 1:22:35 | |
In what way? | 1:22:35 | 1:22:37 | |
I don't know how she would have done it, but she was out for doing it, probably with her task force. | 1:22:37 | 1:22:45 | |
Who knows? | 1:22:45 | 1:22:48 | |
-You mean to kill you? -Yes, yes. | 1:22:48 | 1:22:52 | |
There's also a rumour, and I feel I have to ask you this, | 1:22:59 | 1:23:03 | |
because of your struggles with Joan Root that you might have been behind her attack. | 1:23:03 | 1:23:08 | |
Erm, I suppose one's been gradually broken in over the years, | 1:23:12 | 1:23:18 | |
because some terrible things have been said which aren't true, | 1:23:18 | 1:23:24 | |
but it does hurt. | 1:23:24 | 1:23:26 | |
But, erm, it break's one's heart, really, | 1:23:26 | 1:23:31 | |
to think people can think that way, especially in the crime sort of way. | 1:23:31 | 1:23:38 | |
That really does hurt, because I've never...I wouldn't... | 1:23:38 | 1:23:42 | |
I wouldn't even dream of even thinking about it. | 1:23:42 | 1:23:46 | |
In late 2009, Diana Bunny was acquitted of all charges relating to the attack on Freeman. | 1:23:51 | 1:23:58 | |
All people like Joan who put their head up and survive | 1:24:30 | 1:24:35 | |
or put their head up and don't survive, they do make an impact. | 1:24:35 | 1:24:39 | |
We have progressed probably in the last 20 years or so | 1:24:39 | 1:24:43 | |
from people like Joan being seen as cranks, | 1:24:43 | 1:24:47 | |
only interested in butterflies and birds, | 1:24:47 | 1:24:50 | |
to people who actually understand the fact this planet as we know it at the moment | 1:24:50 | 1:24:56 | |
is the only planet we know which is habitable. | 1:24:56 | 1:24:59 | |
Whatever anybody says now, | 1:25:08 | 1:25:11 | |
they will remember the contribution that Joan Root made, | 1:25:11 | 1:25:15 | |
creating an awareness of the environmental issues around Lake Naivasha. | 1:25:15 | 1:25:19 | |
Joan Root started that. | 1:25:19 | 1:25:21 | |
Joan Root was the one that actually put that in place. | 1:25:21 | 1:25:24 | |
From my perspective, I have a different sort of legacy of which I would consider Joan. | 1:25:35 | 1:25:42 | |
And it is this way. | 1:25:42 | 1:25:44 | |
Here is Joan, with her idea, an ideal to try and conserve the lake. | 1:25:44 | 1:25:49 | |
This task force thing | 1:25:49 | 1:25:51 | |
took her out of the closet into an entirely different - almost - universe | 1:25:51 | 1:25:59 | |
to which she had no idea how it works, how it operates, | 1:25:59 | 1:26:03 | |
what difficulties and challenges, plus expectations it had. | 1:26:03 | 1:26:07 | |
As a Naivashan, | 1:26:07 | 1:26:10 | |
as someone who grew up here, | 1:26:10 | 1:26:12 | |
what she funded is a brutal force. | 1:26:12 | 1:26:15 | |
So it's a legacy of a bit of pain and suffering | 1:26:15 | 1:26:19 | |
and a rich person there telling us how to live, | 1:26:19 | 1:26:23 | |
and yet they live and have everything and we only trying to make a living. | 1:26:23 | 1:26:27 | |
And she even funds some of the people that we know to suppress us, | 1:26:27 | 1:26:31 | |
to deny us the chance, | 1:26:31 | 1:26:35 | |
a chance for livelihood. | 1:26:35 | 1:26:38 | |
Joan was a through-and-through conservationist. | 1:26:57 | 1:27:01 | |
If there's progress, wherever the progress is, | 1:27:03 | 1:27:06 | |
there's always certain sectors or elements who won't be happy about the progress. | 1:27:06 | 1:27:11 | |
So here it is... | 1:27:11 | 1:27:13 | |
on one hand, a very strong commercial, economical progress | 1:27:13 | 1:27:19 | |
which is to a certain degree, | 1:27:19 | 1:27:22 | |
um... in conflict with the environment. | 1:27:22 | 1:27:26 | |
I guess her life, really, and her life story was a... | 1:27:39 | 1:27:45 | |
microcosm of what is happening | 1:27:45 | 1:27:47 | |
not just to Kenya and Africa, but to the rest of the world, | 1:27:47 | 1:27:54 | |
that in the name of progress, we're destroying so much of value. | 1:27:54 | 1:28:00 | |
It's terrifying, the speed at which wildness is disappearing | 1:28:02 | 1:28:07 | |
everywhere around the world. | 1:28:07 | 1:28:10 | |
It's all getting paved over and turned into shopping malls and flower farms and you name it. | 1:28:10 | 1:28:16 | |
I really am thankful that I have two little boys | 1:28:18 | 1:28:23 | |
and have to hope that the world is going to at least be liveable for them, | 1:28:23 | 1:28:30 | |
although it's going to be nothing like the world I knew. | 1:28:30 | 1:28:34 | |
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