[1] Kyolaba met Idi Amin when she was a 19-year-old go-go dancer in the so-called Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band of the Uganda Army.

The restaurant served dishes such as stewed goat, muchomo (barbecued meat with salad) and ekigere (cow hoof in gravy).

Kyolaba avoided prison by pleading guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court,[5][2][3] where she received a two-year conditional discharge, and had to pay £1,000 towards the prosecution's costs.

[5][6] After Amin's death in Jeddah in 2003, Kyolaba called him a "true African hero" and a "wonderful father",[3] adding, "He was just a normal person, not a monster.

[3] At the time of her death, she was running a hair salon in Tottenham, north London and living nearby in Palmers Green.