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Murder: Dutch claim

2nd December 2004
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A witness in the Chohan murder case tells how the haulage boss was about to sell up. Chris Tindall reports.

A WITNESS at the centre of a murder trial concerning the killing of a haulage boss and his family stood to receive over £1m when one of the men charged with the murders attempted to buy the company, the Old Bailey has heard.

Businessman Mike Parr was being questioned by Paul Mendelle, appearing for defendant Ken Regan, over the proposed sale of C1BA Freight in February 2003.

The firm's owner, Amarjit Chohan, was willing to sell the fruit import/export business, in which Parr had a 50% stake, before he was abducted and murdered.

Regan, who the prosecution alleges carried out the murders, had shown interest in CIBA Freight alter his attempts to buy land owned by Chohan in Hatton Cross failed. Parr is said to have acted as an intermediary between Chohan and Regan, who he knew from a previous cornpany, Superior Freight. But Regan did not have the money to buy the firm so, according to the prosecution, he concocted a cover story that Dutch businessmen would buy CIBA. He arranged for Chohan to meet them on 13 February.

Addressing Parr, Mendelle said: "You must have been very excited you were going to get a million and a quarterin cash.You must have taken a great interest in what happened to [Chohan] that afternoon."

Parr agreed and claimed Regan had told him Dutch businessmen had flown by private jet into Gatwick airport, along with a Credit Suisse man who wanted to know if [Chohan] wanted the money in cash or wired into a bank account.

But Mendelle said: "I am suggesting this account is preposterous.Nobody,particularly someone 22 years in the business, would believe it. I am suggesting it was never said."

Mobile phone evidence indicated that Chohan had most probably met Regan at Stonehenge, though Parr maintains the conversation took place.

Two other men, Peter Rees and Bill Homey, also deny murder.

The trial continues.


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