When Paul Warren first visited the tropical paradise of Tofo, Mozambique, in 2018, his heart was heavy but his adrenaline was “pumping”. It was there in 2016 that his daughter, aspiring marine biologist Elly Warren, was found dead, partially naked – her T-shirt ripped, her underwear down near her knees – and her throat jammed with sand. Local police called it an overdose.
Retracing the final days of his daughter, who had gone to Tofo for a volunteer ocean research mission, Paul visited the beaches Elly swam at, the ramshackle bar where she gathered in the sultry evenings with friends, and the beachside lodge where she stayed.
But the most painful part of his pilgrimage was stepping onto the hard dirt ground outside a public toilet block, a short stroll from Tofo’s main beach and its endless roll of waves. It was there that the body of his 20-year-old daughter was discovered face down by a local fisherman at dawn on November 9, 2016. Paul knew the precise location because the fisherman had taken a photo of the young woman in situ, and the
