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Three face court for family slaying
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Three men are standing trial at the Old Bailey charged with the brutal murder of a haulage boss and his family. Chris Tindal! reports.
A FANTASIST murdered a millionaire haulage boss and three generations of his family in order to run the business as a front for importing drugs, the Old Bailey has heard.
Richard Horwell, prosecuting, alleged that Ken Regan concocted an elaborate plan, along with Bill Horncy and Peter Rees to make people believe Amarjit Chohan had given up his fruit importing and exporting business, CIBA Freight in Southall, West London, and disappeared abroad with his family.
Regan, described as "extremely ambitious" and -determined to improve his position in life" became desperate for money after his transport business, Hounslowbased Superior Freight , foundered when he was jailed for heroin possession in 1998.
On his release he met with Chohan in a car park at Stonehenge on the pretext of buying CIBA Freight. In fact, Chohan was kidnapped and held for several days before being murdered.
To make Chohan's disappearance appear genuine, said Horwell, the gang also murdered Chohan's wife, mother-in-law and two young children. "Some crimes are beyond belief," he told the jury. "These horrific murders fall into that category. Homey and Rees played important parts and they expected to be handsomely rewarded."
The court heard how the three defendants, who all plead not guilty, nearly succeeded with their "audaciousscheme".When Regan turned up at CIBA Freight a few days later the staff believed that Chohan had fled abroad, taking his family with him.
However, Chohan's brother-inlaw, Onkar Verma, who lives in New Zealand, refused to believe his sister and his mother would have vanished without trace.
Amarjit's body was later found floating in the water not far from Bournemouth pier. Subsequently the bodies of Nancy Chohan and her mother Charanjit Kaur were also discovered. Chohan's two children have not yet been found.