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00:00Do you want to pause at any moment?
00:02We just pause.
00:06Your dad, are you in that class?
00:08It's my dad's fingerprint.
00:09Oh, is it?
00:10Yeah.
00:11Oh, that's such a lovely thing.
00:14When did you get that done?
00:16I asked a few more directors to get a print of his fingerprint.
00:26Yeah.
00:27So nice.
00:28Yeah, I never take it off.
00:31Some people have described him as a gangster.
00:34How do you do about that term?
00:42It's hard for me to say on that because it's quite hard to think of your dad like that.
00:52As a gangster?
00:53Yeah.
00:54And I don't think we do.
00:56My dad's house was secluded.
01:08When I was told he had been murdered, I'd actually speak to him a couple of hours before.
01:24He did go to prison.
01:28He did his time.
01:30Now, he was saying, well, that was, you know, it's maybe time for him to have a bit more of a relaxed life.
01:41Did your dad ever get death rats?
01:42Did your dad ever get death rats?
01:51Not that I was aware of, no.
01:52He never acted like he was in fear of his life.
02:04No.
02:05No.
02:06No.
02:07No.
02:08No.
02:09No.
02:10No.
02:11Why?
02:12Why somebody would even want to kill my dad!
02:14One of Britain's most notorious gangsters, shot at close range, but who ordered John Palmer's murder and why?
02:44One of these days gonna cut you down. One of these days gonna cut you down.
02:59Girls stay off the ropes, stay off the ropes.
03:03Whoa, you're wide open too, wide open there.
03:07John Palmer did four years for time-chair fraud.
03:11While Palmer was inside, his former right-hand man, Mo Durba, moved in on his territory and ran it like his own empire.
03:22When Palmer got out, his assets were frozen, the Spanish police were sniffing about, and rival gangs were coming in from all directions.
03:31So he did what any old school fighter would do. He tucked in his chin, he slipped back to Essex, and he took cover.
03:41But for Palmer, this wasn't the kind of game you can just retire from.
03:46Because in his line of work, there's always the risk that someone's gonna come after you with a sucker punch.
03:52And when it finally came to the end, there were actually two killers that took him down.
03:58One with enough money to buy a contract hit, the other came with a silenced pistol.
04:04I've been investigating the murder of John Palmer now for a year.
04:31There's two distinct theories we're looking at at the moment.
04:36First one is Brinks-Matt.
04:44Mickey McAvoy, revenge.
04:47McAvoy was being screwed by people on the outside.
04:50He was violent, and he may have had a motive to kill John Palmer.
04:55And the second theory is that Palmer was killed by the Russian Mafia.
04:59Do you know how much debt Palmer was in?
05:02A million pounds a week, interest it is.
05:04That's interest.
05:05That's just interest.
05:06That's just interest.
05:07Wow.
05:08They put out the hit on John Palmer, and assassins carried out the hit.
05:13Over the years, police have chased hundreds of leads without charging anyone.
05:18Rumours and speculation are rife in the press and social media, but there must be more to uncover.
05:25At this old Bailey trial 14 years ago, gangster John Palmer wore a bulletproof vest.
05:31In June, alone and vulnerable in the garden of his Essex home, he was shot dead.
05:38John Palmer's underworld life meant he was a potential target for many years, and he knew it.
05:44The bulletproof vest, this secluded home.
05:47What we know about Palmer's life from the outside at this stage is that he'd made it look like he was in retirement from his criminal activities.
05:59In reality, he'd withdrawn into a fortress.
06:02The house was wired with CCTV covering every angle, and he had four guard dogs on a daily rotation.
06:09So you've got to ask what kind of assassin could breach this level of security, shoot John six times, and vanish without a trace.
06:22So I'm going to meet Philip Boyce, a firearms expert who's 40 years' experience.
06:29We're going to go to the scene, and I'm hoping that Phil can interpret the scene and identify the methodology used by the killer.
06:39Morning Philip.
06:42Morning.
06:43You okay?
06:44Yeah.
06:45Nice to see you again.
06:46And you, and you.
06:54This is obviously the public footpath.
06:57This is the, that's the house in the foreground.
07:00This is the wooden fence that's the circumference, runs around the circumference of the entire garden.
07:05Is that the original height of the fence?
07:07Yes.
07:08Quite, quite a big area of property as well.
07:12Yeah, it's massive.
07:13So the path goes off to the, slightly to the left, and there's like a dip down.
07:17And it's over on the, that part of the fence where they say there was a hole that the shooter had kept observation on John.
07:26So this is the, effectively the sea.
07:29So you've got John Palmer on his lawn tractor, backwards and forwards to an area over here.
07:46Yeah.
07:47Which is where he's burning documents.
07:49The shooter is hiding behind the fence.
07:50Mm-hm.
07:51The shooter is hiding behind the fence.
07:52Mm-hm.
07:53No CCTV in this area.
07:54The shooter is hiding behind the fence.
07:55Mm-hm.
07:56No CCTV in this area.
07:57The shooter is hiding behind the fence.
08:28It goes over the fence.
08:29It goes over the fence.
08:30It goes over the fence.
08:33It shoots John three times in the front.
08:36Three times in the back.
08:38And then he's found about 15 metres away.
08:48The gun, there's no cartridges anywhere.
08:52No, nobody hears the shots.
08:55At the time, they didn't know what had happened to him.
08:58Obviously, many, many days later, they find six bullet wounds in him.
09:03And, according to the police, it was a .32 caliber silenced weapon.
09:09Yeah.
09:10What's your views on that?
09:11To give you an idea of the range of calibers, you can have something like a .22 caliber,
09:17a .22 caliber.
09:18Right.
09:19But that's quite small.
09:20You wouldn't think that would kill someone.
09:22That will travel for maybe a mile and a half.
09:25Wow.
09:26From a rifle or a pistol.
09:27Right.
09:28.32 caliber.
09:30That's the one.
09:31Which is the one we're talking about.
09:33Yeah.
09:34It's developing somewhere in the region of 190, 200 foot-pounds.
09:39So it's got good injury stroke lethal power.
09:45And also the bullets recovered were from a smoothbore barrel.
09:50Which may indicate the weapon used was a silenced revolver.
09:56I have two guns here.
10:03And this is a typical size of a .32 revolver.
10:07And why is it that you think the police considered it was a revolver that was used in the murder?
10:14Well again, really to demonstrate it, this is a sound moderator.
10:20Right.
10:21And inside the sound moderator is a series of metal baffles.
10:26Whenever it's fitted to a gun, the bullet sometimes hits those baffles.
10:31And there must have been some marks on the bullet to suggest that it was fired through a silencer
10:36or a sound moderator.
10:37It was radiation marks on the actual bullet itself.
10:39Yeah.
10:40Yes.
10:41So the likelihood is the gun that was used to kill John Palmer had been adapted so that
10:46it would have the silencer just screw on the top.
10:49Yeah.
10:50I would suspect so.
10:51So with this, the bullets would still be loaded but literally you've got to pull back the trigger mechanism each time to fire.
10:58Yeah.
10:59And you've got six shots and you fire them all.
11:03And you fire three in the front, three in the back with a silencer.
11:06No forensics.
11:08Determined professional assassin?
11:11Possibly, yes.
11:13The whole scenario shows pre-planning and knowledge of firearms at least.
11:18I wouldn't have expected someone to have carried this shooting out unless they were a professional assassin.
11:26Right.
11:27So we know that the shooter managed to kill John in an area of the garden where there was no CCTV.
11:51And we know that he used a weapon that was very quiet.
11:57And we know also they've been carrying out surveillance, reconnaissance on John and identified his routine.
12:06So they picked the right moment to kill John Palmer.
12:10So it looks like a professional hitman.
12:15There's not many gangs that use professional assassins.
12:20We know Russian Mafia are one, but I found no hard evidence to back this theory.
12:25I received a lead from a source in Ireland about an organised crime gang in Dublin with very close ties to John Palmer.
12:36They used professional hitmen to carry out their dirty work.
12:39That appears to me to be a very good lead to follow.
12:44I've known about John Palmer for years.
13:00I certainly knew about his career and, of course, the timeshares in Tenerife.
13:07So, as a crime journalist, when one of the wealthiest criminals in the UK is killed, you know that there is a really big story behind it.
13:16I remember when I first heard that John Palmer had been murdered because I was starting to make connections between Palmer, some of his associates, and people I was writing about.
13:33The biggest organised crime gang in this country, the Kinahan Organisation.
13:38Two family groupings from Dublin who had joined together, the Hutch side and the Kinahan side.
13:48They've been described as a murderous drug-dealing cartel, and they migrated to Spain and the Costa del Sol.
13:56And John Palmer, of course, had his own businesses down in the Costa del Sol.
14:01The likes of Palmer, the likes of the Kinahans, they all know one another.
14:07And they all are in business, at some point together, in one way or another.
14:212016, there was a boxing weigh-in in the Regency Hotel.
14:26This feud had broken out within the Kinahan Organisation, and the leadership of the Kinahan Organisation were going to be there.
14:36This feud has...
14:38Yes.
14:39Yes, darling...
14:41Oh, oh, oh, oh! What's happening?
14:44What are you?
14:45What are you?
14:50People would start running...
14:51start running and as they run out the front of the hotel members of what looks
15:03like the armed response unit start making their way into the hotel most
15:10people believed they were the police but they were actually the hutch organized
15:14crime group armed with Kalashnikov rifles hunting for the head of the
15:19Kinahan organized crime group I got a phone call from the photographer I was
15:25working with and he had captured an image of what he believed was a gunman and
15:31a woman fleeing from the scene when he focused in a bit further he could see
15:39that it was a gunman and another gunman in drag
15:44it almost looks like something from a scene from Reservoir Dogs
15:50that was the moment that this Hutch Kinahan feud really exploded
15:56Michael Barr was shot dead last month by two gunmen who burst into the Sunset
16:02house pub in the Summer Hill area forensic specialists today examining the scene of
16:06last night's gangland murder in Dublin this gang feud turned parts of this city the
16:12inner city here in Dublin into an absolute war zone 18 young men dead in the aftermath of
16:23this something very unusual happened out of the blue this weird sort of anonymous Twitter site
16:32appeared called the whistleblower this site was tagging journalists like myself
16:38crime journalists trying to alert you trying to get your attention and it starts giving
16:44information about cartel murders in-house murders I'm communicating with people I
16:53know high open the guards and they're telling me this is fucking accurate it was
17:00investigated by the police here and it was discovered that this was the Hutch
17:04organized crime group that was behind us and they were ready to spill the
17:08secrets of the Kinnahans
17:15one of the secrets that that whistleblower site let out claims that hitman for hire
17:22working for the Kinnahans cartel kills John Palmer
17:28so come over to Dublin to meet with a journalist who has been investigating organized crime and I've come over to Dublin to meet with a journalist who has been investigating all
17:29organized crime
17:41out in Ireland in Dublin
17:56and she has intelligence on a hitman who could be a suspect in the murder of John Palmer
18:02so Nicola what happens to John Palmer and he was murdered what do you think I have a theory about two years after John Palmer was shot a
18:11international contract killer showed up here in Dublin right he was employed by the Kinnahan cartel to take out one of their sworn enemies
18:31and when he flew in from Alicante
18:46he was here to kill
18:50the Irish police got a tip-off that there was a man on the way in to the airport
18:55and his name was Imre Arrakis
18:58he was known as an international hitman for hire
19:02he was wanted in a number of countries for murder
19:08Ireland was in the grip of a gang feud
19:13and they knew that he had previously worked with the Kinnahan organization and he was followed
19:25he was disguised as a tourist a fishing enthusiast he had a rucksack on his back he had a tent in it and as the surveillance team watched him he was picked up in a van by a known associate of the Kinnahan organization
19:37he was followed back to a premises where he was due to stay the night he was due to stay the night he was arrested the following morning
19:54he found all sorts of weird stuff
19:59telescopic equipment
20:01disguises
20:02there was masks
20:04and during his arrest an encrypted blackberry mobile phone was picked up
20:11this is the printout of those messages that were sent on that encrypted phone
20:27you know it shows what he's planning to do
20:30and how he hopes to go to Belfast and to stalk his prey really
20:35and who was he going after?
20:37he was going after a guy called James Mago Gately
20:41and this was a military style operation
20:46he wanted a gun that was accurate
20:48and he wanted a silencer
20:50those messages
20:51read them because I think they show certainly a modus operandi that he's using
20:57incredible
20:58I'll have to read this and see how this fits in potentially to John Palmer's murder
21:05so I'm just reviewing the information that Nicola gave us yesterday in relation to the text messages that were received on the
21:34the Blackberry phone
21:37very detailed information
21:39between four individuals
21:41one of whom is identified as Imre Arrakas
21:44talking about a very sophisticated plan
21:47for a professional assassination
21:49this is interesting because obviously here you can see the people who commissioned Arrakas replied to OW which is Arrakas as to how to go to an identifier
22:04the target which is James Gately
22:08and if you go further down into the text messages you see Arrakas
22:15he's now responding where can we see photos of him
22:18they say go into Google
22:21write James Gately Dublin criminal
22:24it's the second picture in
22:28he has a black suit on
22:30it's a clear picture of him
22:33that's the target
22:35by analysing the preparation for this hit
22:41I want to see if there are any similarities between it
22:46and the murder of Palmer
22:49and see if Arrakas is a possible suspect
22:53the people who commissioned Arrakas tell him that the target's car
23:04exits the rear of the building
23:07from a shutter which opens up and down
23:10champagne-coloured Toyota Aventis
23:14he drives most days
23:16he seems to go to Nuri and back
23:19we have a tracker on his car
23:23when he is ten minutes away
23:25get in position
23:27he parts in the same space always
23:30so then you have him
23:34you have him
23:41Arrakas replies
23:44my plan was actually to go there tomorrow
23:49it seems it's possible to take him down
23:53when he comes out of the car
23:55it is good if the gun is really accurate
24:10also silencer would be good
24:14this is the shutter
24:21this is the shutter that is described in the text messages
24:29Arrakas is hiding
24:33Gately comes to here in his car in his Aventis
24:36car comes in
24:38parks up directly in front as described in the text messages
24:42literally Arrakas is bang bang bang
24:45and then he is out
24:46and then once he is out
24:50he is away
24:52Gately is murdered
24:53dead
24:54perfect assassination
24:57even though he didn't get to carry out the murder
25:09Arrakas has identified the vulnerabilities of Gately
25:15it is all the pre-planning
25:16the whole set up for the murder
25:19I can't see any CCTV down here
25:22ideal place to exploit and kill Gately
25:26and in similar fashion to John Palmer
25:33you have got the surveillance
25:37no CCTV
25:39the use of a silencer
25:41it feels like a professional hit
25:44the surveillance
25:58hello
25:59is that you David?
26:00it is yeah
26:01Albert you ok?
26:02yeah yeah just a bit
26:03good news here
26:04remember you tasked me to look at the
26:06the Arrakas is a potential suspect
26:08yep
26:09Arrakas
26:10yeah was in the country
26:12I, in the UK, but more importantly, in Essex, two weeks before the murder.
26:18Wow. Right, OK, I'm on the way back.
26:28Oh, how about you, OK? You've got some more for us, haven't you?
26:31Well, we've spoken to the same source that you know.
26:34Let me just summarise what he's saying.
26:36He's saying Arrakas entered the UK in the weeks before Palmer's death.
26:43It's got similar facts.
26:44If you look at the detail in relation to what happened in Ireland...
26:48Silencer. Yeah.
26:50Preparation, lifestyle surveillance, coming into the UK, into Essex,
26:54two weeks before the murder of John Palmer.
26:58He's a very, very good suspect.
27:02This is dynamite.
27:12We've had information that a professional assassin, Imre Arrakas,
27:22had arrived in England just before the murder of John Palmer.
27:25I've tracked him down.
27:28He's in Lithuania at the moment.
27:33He's standing trial.
27:35He's been arrested for another murder, another assassination.
27:37And he's now on trial for gunning down a man outside his home.
27:45Imre Arrakas,
28:02He's the best, the most famous guy in Europe.
28:14The last duck, Remigiu Markevičiu.
28:16He's a good guy.
28:21I know Remigiu Markevičiu, as you can say, from a young age.
28:27Brilliant, very professional fighter.
28:30But he's also in another human life.
28:35He gave contact with the people from the world.
28:40Very, very big figures in the drugs world.
28:45We're working with cartels.
28:52Arakas, Savoukas, mėgdavo stebėti iki nužudimo.
28:56I've been living for a while.
28:59I've been living for a long time.
29:06My nužudimo was used to be a pistolet.
29:10There was a pistol, there was a pistol with two lights.
29:15And, of course, Remigius had the modifications of Kalashnikov
29:19in the center of the vehicle.
29:23How much I could hear from the people's stories.
29:27Remigius Murkevičio, he even went back to Judiko.
29:33Arakis, again a few times,
29:36went to Kalashnikov.
29:40And that time, Remigas fell and fell down on the ground.
29:52This is the shootings.
30:01I think that Arakas is a very dangerous man.
30:06Very cold blood killer. Very.
30:11Hello, David. I'm David.
30:17As I think you're aware, I'm investigating the murder of John Palmer back in 2015.
30:24What we know so far is that Arakas arrived into Essex two weeks before the murder of John Palmer.
30:32He's obviously a professional, so he gets hired by people.
30:35People give him contracts to kill.
30:38Has he ever spoken about who has given him contracts to kill people?
30:44He don't want to talk about this.
30:46Okay.
30:47Because, as you know, it's a very big criminal organization working with narco traffics in all Europe.
30:55In America, in Colombia, in Mexico, and it's very, very, very serious criminal organizations.
31:03And he is, effectively, a contract killer who works for those gangs?
31:09Yes. But he's been traveling man.
31:12Right.
31:13Traveling killer, I think.
31:14Traveling killer.
31:15That is the answer to a partner in the Philadelphia command.
31:25He's Yeshua?
31:27What and you asked them to get hired at the voltaire of our local national murder.
31:33and we know he arrived in the UK two weeks before the murder of John Palmer so it makes you wonder
31:43doesn't it whether or not he is the man who pulled the trigger
32:03we know that Arrakas is a really good suspect for the shooting but Arrakas is a professional hitman
32:24and so someone employed him so the big question is what was going on in John Palmer's life at that
32:35time that meant he had to be murdered so we know that on the day of John Palmer's murder he was in
32:47his lawn tractor and he was taking documents down to this area here the only area in the house and
32:53garden where there's no CCTV so according to Essex police he is burning documents at the time that
33:09he's assassinated what was he burning what were those documents were those documents evidence
33:19could they have potentially implicated John or other people
33:26recently I traveled to Tenerife and I interviewed a man called Mohammed Durba
33:34and he told me that John was being pursued by the Spanish authorities and they were getting closer
33:41and closer to charging him and I've seen speculation about a Spanish fraud trial in the papers which
33:49echoes what one of my sources in Tenerife has turned up
33:52so I'm going back out there to see what he's got
34:01so I tell you what we got here
34:14estos son documentos de la propia policía española sobre las actividades ilícitas de John Palmer porque
34:22la policía española ya estaba tras los pasos de Palmer desde hacía mucho tiempo cuando ya dan el golpe
34:27definitivo que deciden imputar formalmente esto es las diligencias judiciales de el juzgado central de
34:38instrucción número 5 la audiencia nacional en Madrid el procedimiento que se elabora para acusar a John
34:43Palmer aquí nombran las denuncias que tiene por blanqueo de capitales las estafas evasión de impuestos
34:50viene perfectamente detallado con muchos pinchamientos de teléfono que sirven al final
34:56pues para imputarle los delitos de los que se lo acusaba
34:59esto coincide este esta fecha las diligencias es cuando asesina natan en Reino Unido a John Palmer
35:17so the week that John Palmer found out that he had the court date was the week that he got
35:23murdered so Spanish justice was catching up with John Palmer see
35:27so we know on the 10th of april 2015 John Palmer is indicted with 10 others for fraud offenses firearms
35:48offenses and money laundering in relation to the timeshare in June at some stage the papers are served on the 10
35:56defendants so there's clearly a legal noose tightening around John's neck and the others
36:02Palmer was 64 years old and he was looking at 15 years in jail so the question is would he have
36:09been tempted to cut a deal to avoid prison and if so would someone have wanted to stop him
36:15my name is Kevin Lane I've previously been convicted of contract killing and I met John Palmer in Long Larton
36:32when I first met John John had just been sentenced for the timeshares when I met him he came into Long Larton you could see he's at the age where God what am I doing here in prison with all the wealth that I've got Long Larton had a serious reputation for making weapons in there they had a metal shop in there people used to make their own knives or spikes very dangerous place and so when was the last time you spoke to John
37:01John I spoke to John I spoke to him over the phone prior to his death when he lived in Essex
37:07it's just talking about the upcoming case how he did want to go back to prison at his age yeah I definitely not hit him quite hard
37:20in 2015 John Palmer was facing trial in Spain and he was facing a really long time in prison if he was found guilty
37:38and like at 64 years of age that's a death sentence
37:44at the time it was suspected or he was believed certainly to be cooperating
37:54that he was going to
37:58rat
37:59so you have to look at who was on the indictment and like what did they stand to lose
38:09and amongst those names is John Palmer's
38:13former business associate
38:14a man facing a sentence that could have left him locked up in a Spanish jail for up to a decade
38:21he was floating around the cost of del sol along with Palmer and got very mixed up at some point with the
38:28Kinnaghan organization the same crew that had hired Imre Arrakis
38:32Kevin how do you do how are you David you all right yeah pleased to meet you
38:48I think you had
38:49involvement with John you've known him for a considerable period of time since you were in prison
38:54yeah yeah
38:55do you think knowing the man there was any potential
38:58that he would have gone to the police spoken to the police or given information
39:04do you think that's a possibility knowing the man
39:05let's just be quite
39:07frank about this
39:09yeah
39:09that's a possibility of anybody
39:11is it the truth
39:12doesn't mean it is
39:14no
39:14so I would have to say to you there
39:16I see nothing of that in John
39:18um
39:20he didn't give me any indication that he was going to do that
39:22but then would you give indication to people you were going to do that
39:26no
39:26and so I'm being objective here
39:27no totally
39:29yeah
39:29so I suppose one of the theories is that one of the people on the indictment on the
39:35Spanish indictment that John is named on you probably know who I'm talking about
39:40but the man who's on that indictment is associated to the Kinnans
39:47do you think knowing that individual do you think that there is any possibility that person
39:52could have jumped to the conclusion that John was going to talk about him
39:58I wouldn't know
39:59right
40:00do you think that person's got the capability of doing
40:03what happened to John
40:05hasn't everybody
40:08yeah
40:09everybody's got all sorts of capabilities
40:11that's all I'm saying
40:14on that
40:15right
40:16got you
40:16all right
40:17okay
40:18okay
40:31so
40:32the investigation's got to
40:35I'm going to go into three primary motives
40:39revenge
40:41Mickey McAvoy
40:44Russia
40:45and links to the Russian mafia
40:46and
40:48three
40:48the Spanish indictment
40:50just before John Palmer is murdered
40:53the Spanish
40:54issue
40:55an indictment
40:57and it's really interesting
40:58I ended up speaking to a journalist
41:01in Ireland
41:02who's very well connected
41:04and has been doing a lot of work
41:06around the Kinnan cartel
41:08we had a long discussion around
41:10a man
41:12called Arrakas
41:13who is an Estonian
41:14hitman
41:15we have information
41:17that suggests that Arrakas
41:20came into the UK
41:22just prior
41:23to John Palmer's murder
41:25and
41:26that he is a good possibility
41:28the man who actually pulled the trigger
41:30who killed John Palmer
41:32the question is
41:34what was the motive
41:36who do you suspect
41:38put the money up for the hit
41:39my gut feeling
41:44is that one of the individuals
41:45on the indictment
41:46could be the man who ordered the hit
41:48I don't want to name him
41:50and compromise any future
41:51police investigation
41:53but we do know that he was involved
41:54with Palmer in the early days
41:57a very violent man
41:59well capable of
42:01serious violence
42:03who is a close associate
42:05of the Kinnahans
42:07right
42:07he was very close
42:09to John
42:10and attention
42:11the man on the indictment
42:13may have thought
42:14that John
42:15was going to implicate him
42:16and put
42:17the majority
42:18of the real grief
42:19onto this
42:20this individual
42:21so do we think
42:28John Palmer
42:28could have become
42:29an informant
42:30yes I do
42:32because a motivator
42:34would be
42:34the 15 year crime sentence
42:36he'd want to reduce
42:37due to his age
42:38due to his health
42:39the Spanish indictment
42:41you can't take away
42:42the timing
42:42you've got to consider
42:44that that is the trigger
42:45that's motivated
42:46the
42:46assassination
42:48I'm the same as you
42:49you know
42:50the Spanish indictment
42:51so close to the
42:53the model of time
42:54is fitting the bill for me
42:57there's a name on the indictment
43:00yeah
43:01it's that magic
43:02what evidence isn't it
43:02what have they got against him
43:03yeah
43:04yeah
43:05yeah
43:06got a good motive
43:07we have a good picture of him now
43:10so he is a
43:11a good
43:12a very good possibility
43:13so it's been
43:32almost 10 years
43:33to the day
43:33since John Palmer
43:35was murdered
43:36so
43:37it's quite
43:38a meaningful time
43:39for the family
43:40so I'm going to go
43:44back and speak
43:45to the daughter
43:45and see if
43:47I can update them
43:48around what
43:48we've uncovered
43:49so far in the investigation
43:51hello Ella
43:57how are you
43:58are you okay
43:58not too bad
43:59thank you
43:59come on in
44:00okay
44:01hi
44:02is it here
44:02yeah that would be
44:03lovely
44:03thank you
44:04so
44:08it's been
44:0910 years
44:10since your dad
44:11was killed
44:11so as we approach
44:12the 10th anniversary
44:13there's a renewed
44:14sense of urgency
44:15in this
44:17the fact is
44:18that the truth is
44:19we may never know
44:20for certain
44:21who killed
44:21your dad
44:22however
44:24you know
44:24we have uncovered
44:25strong new leads
44:27and they are new leads
44:28you know
44:29places where the police
44:30have not gone
44:30okay
44:31and I think
44:32it's for the first time
44:33that I feel
44:35that we've got
44:35something solid
44:36to move forward with
44:37what we have found
44:39potentially is evidence
44:41that a hitman
44:43a professional assassin
44:44was hired
44:45to kill
44:46your dad
44:47that that man
44:50is linked to
44:51probably the biggest
44:52drug cartel
44:53in the world
44:54the Kinnan cartel
44:55and the hitman
44:58involved
44:59is a man called
45:00Imre Arakas
45:01we believe
45:03the information
45:03we've got
45:03is he travelled
45:04to the UK
45:05literally two weeks
45:07before John
45:08was killed
45:08he has been involved
45:11in other murders
45:12he's currently
45:12in prison
45:13in Lithuania
45:14he's a professional
45:15hitman
45:16so who do we think
45:18would have paid him
45:21the motive
45:22that we think
45:23may be linked
45:24is that
45:26dad had been told
45:27that he was going
45:28to face trial
45:28in Spain
45:29they served
45:30the proceedings
45:31only weeks
45:32before dad
45:32was killed
45:33and then
45:34people around
45:35that case
45:36feared
45:37that dad
45:38was going to
45:38talk to the authorities
45:39and I found
45:41the name
45:42in court papers
45:43it was linked
45:43to both your dad
45:44and the Kinnan gang
45:45you tell me
45:47whether or not
45:48you know this man
45:49that's the name
46:00yeah
46:01without naming him
46:05what was your knowledge
46:06of that particular man
46:07or is that just
46:08something you've heard
46:09no I know
46:10that he did
46:11used to work
46:12for my dad
46:12I'd heard
46:14conversations
46:14between my dad
46:15and that person
46:16talking
46:17quite often
46:18to him
46:19it was said
46:20that my dad
46:21was able
46:23to do things
46:23from prison
46:24but in all
46:25the honest
46:26the truth of it
46:26other people
46:27were having
46:28to run things
46:30so he was
46:31employed by your dad
46:32did you ever hear
46:33anything that would
46:34suggest that they
46:35fell out
46:36at any stage
46:36well yeah
46:37I know that he did
46:38stop working
46:39for my dad
46:40I think he was
46:41probably doing
46:42some things
46:43that maybe
46:44my dad would
46:44have not
46:45wanted it done
46:47in that particular way
46:48right
46:49gotcha
46:49our intention
46:50is
46:51to
46:52give this
46:54information
46:55in the form
46:56of a report
46:56to the police
46:57and it's their
46:58job then
46:59to take it on
47:00it's their job
47:01to progress it
47:02and hopefully
47:02you know
47:03there may be
47:04there may be
47:05some closure
47:06for you
47:06yeah
47:07I think it's just
47:08a bit of time
47:09to process it
47:10things
47:11but
47:13it's better
47:14to have something
47:15some information
47:16than where
47:17it was before
47:18where we didn't
47:19have any
47:19and I hope
47:22at some point
47:22they will look
47:24into the person
47:25on the piece
47:25of paper
47:26in more depth
47:27it's
47:31quite a lot
47:32to process
47:33the idea
47:35of somebody
47:36close to my dad
47:37at some point
47:38could then
47:40organise
47:40my dad's
47:41murder
47:44I spent
47:56over 40
47:57years
47:57investigating
47:58organised crime
47:59and John Palmer
48:00led an
48:02extraordinary
48:02life
48:03he came
48:07from nothing
48:08to become
48:09one of the
48:09most notorious
48:10and richest
48:11criminals
48:11in UK
48:12history
48:12but the
48:14empire
48:14that he built
48:15came at a price
48:15and he created
48:17enemies
48:17all around the world
48:18our 18 month
48:20investigation
48:21has taken us
48:22from Essex
48:22to Tenerife
48:24from Ireland
48:25to Lithuania
48:27and it's
48:28shot a light
48:29on some of the
48:29most dangerous
48:30criminal gangs
48:31in the world
48:32we've uncovered
48:36evidence
48:36that points
48:37towards the
48:37hitman
48:38and the
48:39person
48:40who had
48:40the motive
48:41to kill
48:41John Palmer
48:42we're going
48:43to hand
48:43that evidence
48:44over to the
48:45police
48:45but ultimately
48:48someone in the
48:50criminal underworld
48:50knows exactly
48:51what happened
48:52to John Palmer
48:52ten years on
48:54perhaps one of them
48:56is ready to step
48:57forward
48:57and the murder
48:59of John Palmer
49:00will finally be solved
49:01and the murder
49:03of John Palmer
49:04is
49:31has
49:34the love
49:35of John Palmer
49:37continues
49:41to
49:41him
49:45he
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