It was, however, his magnificent voice, with its five-octave range, that made him a star of world music. The Tanzanian vocalist Hukwe Zawose was his country’s finest musical ambassador. Best known in Britain for the collaborations with Peter Gabriel that saw him become a mainstay of the popular Womad festivals, he was a striking performer, known for his traditional costumes with their tremulous head-dresses, bead jewellery and the nguga, or ankle bells, that created a percussive effect as he danced.A master of the giant thumb piano, the ilimba, Zawose also played the violin-like izezs and the traditional flute his people called a filimbi. Hukwe Zawose, singer and musician: born Doduma, Tanzania 1938; four times married (15 children); died Bagamoyo, Tanzania 30 December 2003.

But they will not tell parents whether child-minders have been accused of harming or endangering children.Although campaigners have been fighting for fuller disclosure of information about childcare providers the measures announced yesterday will not change the information given about a child-minder – only the way the information is released. They have been pushing for the Government to close a legal loophole which allows child-minders to block inquiries about previous complaints by refusing to allow the information to be disclosed.In 2000, eight-month-old Joshua Osborne was shaken to death by his child-minder. His parents had had no idea that she had been accused and acquitted of assaulting another child and had been the subject of eight other complaints about inadequate supervision, of which she had also been cleared.The change in the publication of reports follows a consultation with more than 70,000 child-minders and parents.David Bell, chief inspector of schools for England, said that Ofsted was trying to give parents as much information as possible about the people who might look after their children.. The reports are available now directly from individual child-minders, but they are not required to provide them.The reports include information about the quality of childcare and any improvements needed to bring the care up to standard. They said they believed he was involved in a drugs-trafficking scam. For some time, as part of “Operation Beluga”, the police had been keeping under surveillance a man called Peter Wilson, who ran an auto-repairs shop They suspected him of involvement in drugs Wilson’s girlfriend was Lisa Murray. When the police raided their flat, they found, on the mantelpiece, two tickets to two safety-deposit boxes at the Nat West bank, held in the name of Beverley Tracey, girlfriend of Trevor Thomas, who had now become Murray’s accountant.

Trevor Thomas, whose area of expertise was tax avoidance, off-shore trusts, footballers, showbiz types, rackety associates…It looked a little incriminating “They kept asking me, ‘Do you know Peter Wilson. Aren’t you friends?’ I told them, No, I’ve never met him, which was true. Beverley was the only one I was involved with,” says Thomas.As for his being a drugs baron – “I laughed at them,” remembers Thomas. “I thought, how silly can you get? And I mocked them.” When they asked the killer question – “Is the money in the deposit box yours?” – Thomas, fatally, prevaricated “I refused to answer. And two weeks later, they turned up at my office and arrested me for ‘Conspiracy to launder the proceeds of drugs-trafficking, that conspiracy being with Peter Wilson, Lisa Murray and Beverley Tracey’.”Thomas is still a little unclear as to why he didn’t just deny the money was his. “It seemed to me that Beverley could have gone to trial without explaining the source of the money at all Under our legal system, she didn’t have to explain anything. The prosecution has to prove the money came from illicit activity But I saw the ways their minds worked.

If she said she was holding the money for Trevor Thomas, then that would be a perfect answer that had nothing to do with drug-trafficking So they had to shut that door by asking me about the money. And I was saying, this is a door I’m not prepared to shut.”The police searched his office in Greenwich, and took away some files They raided his home and searched it thoroughly “But what were they looking for?” muses Thomas. “Evidence of money-laundering? What’s that look like?” He spent a night in the cells and in the morning was interviewed. He refused to answer any questions, but read a statement saying he had never laundered money for his three co-defendants or anyone else.Worse was to follow. For among the files the police took away from his offices were the details about a client called Bill, who was himself in trouble with the police. “Bill is a very well-connected, high-profile guy who made a lot of money from property development, importing of designer labels, and jewellery and clothing businesses,” says Thomas. “He’s East End Irish, very quick, functionally illiterate but can spot a margin at a hundred paces.