Death in Dubai.

When the mysterious death of a 23-year-old Ugandan woman in Dubai goes viral, she becomes the face of the disturbing #DubaiPortaPotty.

With over 450 million views on TikTok, the hashtag contains parodies and speculative exposés of women suspected of being "Dubai porta potties" - the internet term for supposedly money-hungry influencers willingly getting defecated on to fund lavish lifestyles.

This BBC Eye investigation reveals that behind these disturbing online rumors lies an even darker reality.

Monic (pronounced Monica) Karungi, known online as Mona Kizz, is the woman who tragically fell to her death from a Dubai high-rise, in 2022. Within hours, her name was trending. A grainy video of a woman jumping from a building began circulating, with social media users claiming it was of Monic, and that she'd taken her life after a "porta potty" video of her was leaked. This video was also apparently in circulation.

A reverse image search revealed that the suicide clip wasn't of Monic. It hadn't even been filmed in Dubai, it was shot in Russia six months earlier. And the graphic "porta potty video"? That wasn't of her either. But on the 1st of May 2022, Monic did fall to her death from a Dubai high rise, and she wasn't the only one. In 2021, another young Ugandan woman, Kayla Birungi, also fell to her death in the same Dubai neighborhood as Monic.

BBC Eye's Runako Celina spent two years trying to find answers to why Monic and Kayla died, and if their deaths were connected.

Through undercover footage, women's testimonies and OSINT journalism, BBC Eye exposes an illegal prostitution ring in Dubai, and hears from young Ugandan women who say they were lured to the Gulf, often under false promises of work, only to find themselves trapped in violent, coercive sex work, indebted to a man known in Dubai as "The Untouchable."

Filmed in Uganda, the UAE and the UK, the documentary retraces Monic's journey from Kampala to Dubai, where she found herself sharing a flat with 50 other women, who say they were told they owed debts of up to tens of thousands of pounds to this powerful man.

Women's testimonies form the emotional core of the film. 'Mia' recalls her charismatic and kind-hearted friend Monic, how they felt trapped, and their fears of never paying off the debt. The women say the only way to pay it off was to see clients, who were often seeking to engage in extreme and racialized abuse. 'Lexi', who says she was trafficked by another network, describes being offered thousands to be urinated on, beaten, or to eat faeces. These clients were willing to pay extra for humiliating "fetish" acts, directly linking the disturbing online rumor to women like 'Lexi's' brutal reality.

The investigation's turning point comes when reporters finally locate "The Untouchable." On hidden camera, posing as event organizers, they capture him describing his "25 girls," his prices, and his willingness to provide "the craziest" for porta potty requests. Calm and confident, he insists, "It's part of me."

This man, who is running an illegal and exploitative prostitution ring in Dubai, also reveals that he was once an east London bus driver.