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The BBC came across some of his friends in a neighbourhood outside Maputo, holding a night vigil for him on 17 November.

Jane, who has an accountancy background, spent weeks going through invoices and says she came across numerous questionable charges, including more than £38,000 to repair lifts that were only a year old.

"I came across a taxi driver carrying a tarpaulin from his boot. And I saw body parts," he said.

She told the BBC how she came across the crash scene by chance while returning from a hospital appointment.

Robinson always came across as a guy you wished your father-in-law would or could be like.