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00:11Your dad, were you in a necklace?
00:13It's my dad's fingerprint.
00:15Oh, is it? Yeah.
00:16Oh, that's such a lovely thing.
00:19When did you get that done?
00:21I asked a few more directors to get a print of his fingerprint.
00:30Yeah.
00:32I like.
00:33Yeah, I never take it off.
00:37Some people have described him as a gangster.
00:39How do you do about that term?
00:47It's hard for me to say on that
00:49because it's quite hard to think of your dad like that.
00:57As a gangster?
00:58Yeah.
00:59And I don't think we do.
01:09My dad's house was secluded.
01:13When I was told he had been murdered, I'd actually speak to him a couple of hours before.
01:29He did go to prison.
01:33He did his time.
01:35Now, he was saying, well, that was, you know, it's maybe time for him to have a bit more of a relaxed life.
01:46Did your dad ever get death rants?
01:47Did your dad ever get death rants?
01:56death rats not that i was aware of no
02:02he never acted like he was in fear of his life
02:12all i kept thinking is why why somebody would even want to kill my dad
02:26one of britain's most notorious gangsters shot at close range but who ordered john palmer's murder
02:36and why
02:37you can run for a long time run for a long time run for a long time
02:47one of these days gonna cut you down one of these days gonna cut you down
02:56oh
03:04come on stay off the ropes stay off the ropes
03:07whoa you're wide open too wide open there john palmer did four years for timeshare fraud
03:16while palmer was inside his former right hand man mo durba
03:20moved in on his territory and ran it like his own empire
03:27when palmer got out his assets were frozen
03:30the spanish police were sniffing about and rival gangs were coming in from all directions
03:36so he did what any old school fighter would do he tucked in his chin he slipped back to essex and he took cover
03:47but for palmer this wasn't the kind of game you can just retire from
03:52because in his line of work there's always the risk that someone's going to come after you with a sucker punch
03:57and when it finally came to the end there were actually two killers that took him down
04:04one with enough money to buy a contract hit the other came with a silenced pistol
04:17so i've been investigating the murder of john palmer now for
04:34a year there's two distinct theories we're looking at at the moment
04:39first one is brink's matt
04:49mickey mcavoy revenge mcavoy was being screwed by people on the outside he was violent and he may
04:57have had a motive to kill john palmer and the second theory is that palmer was killed by the russian
05:03mafia do you know how much debt palmer was in a million pounds a week interest is that's just
05:10interest just interest wow they put out the hit on john palmer and assassins carried out the hit
05:19over the years police have chased hundreds of leads without charging anyone rumors and speculation
05:24are rife in the press and social media but there must be more to uncover
05:28over at his old bailey trial 14 years ago gangster john palmer wore a bulletproof vest
05:37in june alone and vulnerable in the garden of his essex home he was shot dead
05:43john palmer's underworld life meant he was a potential target for many years and he knew it the bulletproof
05:50vest this secluded home what we know about palmer's life from the outside of this stage
05:58is that he'd made it look like he was in retirement from his criminal activities
06:03in reality he'd withdrawn into a fortress the house was wired with cctv covering every angle
06:10and he had four guard dogs on a daily rotation so you've got to ask what kind of assassin could
06:17breach 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
06:34we're going to go to the scene and i'm hoping that phil can interpret the scene
06:38and identify the methodology used by the killer
06:46morning philip morning okay yeah nice to see you again and you
06:58this is obviously the the public footpath this is the uh that's the house in the foreground
07:05this is the wooden fence that's the circumference runs around the circumference of the entire garden
07:10is that the original height of the yes yeah quite quite a big area of property as well yeah it's
07:17massive so the path goes off to the slightly to left and there's like a dip down and it's over on the
07:24that part of the fence where they say there was a hole that the shooter had kept observation on john
07:31on the ground so this is the effectively the sea
07:46you've got john palmer on his lawn tractor backwards and forwards to an area over here
07:51here which is where he's burning documents
08:05the shooter is hiding behind the fence no cctv in this area
08:25the shooter goes over the fence
08:38shoots john three times in the front three times in the back
08:43and then he's found about 15 meters away
08:53the gun there's no cartridges anywhere no nobody hears the shots
09:01at the time they didn't know what happened to him obviously
09:04many many days later they find six bullet wounds in him
09:07and according to the police it was a 32 caliber silenced weapon so what's your views on that
09:16to give you an idea of the range of calibers you can have something like a 2.2 caliber
09:23right but that's quite small you wouldn't think that would kill someone that that will travel for
09:28maybe a mile and a half wow from from a rifle or a pistol right
09:32that's the one which is the one we're talking about it's developing somewhere in the region of 190 200
09:42foot pounds so so it's got good injury stroke lethal power and also the bullets recovered were from a
09:53smoothbore barrel which may indicate the weapon used was a silenced revolver
10:02and why is it that you think the police considered it was a revolver that was used in the murder well again
10:21really to demonstrate it this is a sound moderator right and inside the sound moderator is a series of metal baffles
10:30and whenever it's fitted to a gun the bullet sometimes hits those baffles
10:36and there must have been some marks on the bullet to suggest that it was fired through a silencer or
10:42a sound moderator radiation marks on the actual bullet itself yes so the likelihood is the gun that was used
10:47to kill john palmer have been adapted so that it would have the silencer you just screw on the top i would
10:54i would suspect so so with this the the the bullets would still be loaded but literally you've got to
11:00pull back the trigger mechanism each time to fire here and you you've got six shots and you fire them all
11:08and you fire three in the front three in the back with a silencer no forensics determined
11:14professional assassin possibly yes the whole scenario shows pre-planning and knowledge of firearms at least
11:23i wouldn't have expected someone to have carried this shooting out unless they were the professional
11:30so we know that the shooter managed to kill john in an area of the garden where there was no cctv
11:56and we know that used a weapon that was very quiet and we know also they've been carrying out
12:05surveillance reconnaissance on john and identified his routine so they picked the right moment to kill
12:13john palmer so it looks like a professional hit man there's not many gangs that use professional
12:24assassins we know russia mafia are one but i found no hard evidence to back this theory
12:32they've received a lead from a source in ireland about an organized crime gang in dublin with very
12:39close ties to john palmer they use professional hit men to carry out their dirty work that appears to
12:45me to be a very good lead to follow
13:02i've known about john palmer for years
13:05i certainly knew about his career and of course the timeshares in tenerife
13:10so as a crime journalist when one of the wealthiest criminals in the uk is killed
13:18you know that there is a really big story behind it
13:26i remember when i first heard that john palmer had been murdered because i was starting to make
13:33connections between palmer some of his associates and people i was writing about the biggest organized
13:40crime gang in this country the kinahan organization two family groupings from dublin who had joined
13:47together the hutch side and the kinahan side they've been described as a murderous drug dealing cartel
13:57and they migrate to spain and the costa del sol and john palmer of course had his own businesses
14:04down in the costa del sol the likes of palmer the likes of the kinahans they all know one another
14:13and they all are in business at some point together in one way or another
14:172016 there was a boxing way in in the regency hotel this feud had broken out within the kinahan organization
14:36and the leadership of the kinahan organization were going to be there
14:49and as they run out the front of the hotel members of what looks like the armed response unit start
15:10making their way into the hotel
15:11most people believed they were the police but they were actually the hutch organized crime group
15:20armed with kalashnikov rifles hunting for the head of the kinahan organized crime group
15:27i got a phone call from the photographer i was working with and he had captured an image
15:33image of what he believed was a gunman and a woman fleeing from the scene when he focused in a bit
15:41further he could see that it was a gunman and another gunman in drag
15:51it almost looks like something from a scene from reservoir dogs
15:54that was the moment that this hutch kinahan feud really exploded michael barr was shot dead last
16:04month by two gunmen who burst into the sunset house pub in the summer hill forensic specialists
16:10today examining the scene of last night's gangland murder in dublin this gang feud turned parts of
16:16this city the inner city here in dublin into an absolute war zone 18 young men dead
16:24in the aftermath of this something very unusual happened out of the blue this weird sort of anonymous
16:36twitter site appeared called the whistleblower this site was tagging journalists like myself crime
16:43journalists trying to alert you trying to get your attention and it starts giving information about
16:50cartel murders in-house murders i'm communicating with people i know high open the guards and they're
17:01telling me this is accurate it was investigated by the police here and it was discovered that this
17:09was the hutch organized crime group that was behind us and they were ready to spill the secrets of the
17:14kinnahans one of the secrets that that whistleblower site let out claims that hitman for hire working
17:28for the kinnahan cartel killed john palmer
17:48so i've come over to dublin to meet with a journalist who um has been investigating organized crime
17:59out in ireland in dublin and she has intelligence on a hitman who could be a suspect in the murder of john palmer
18:19so nicola um what happens to john palmer and how he was murdered what what what do you think i have a
18:24theory about two years after john palmer was shot a international contract
18:34killer showed up here in dublin right he was employed by the kinnahan cartel
18:41to take out one of their sworn enemies
18:48and when he flew in from alacanti he was here to kill
18:56the irish police got a tip off that there was a man on the way in to the airport
19:01and his name was imray arrakis he was known as an international hitman for hire
19:12he was wanted in a number of countries for murder
19:15ireland was in the grip of a gang feud and they knew that he had previously worked with the kinnahan
19:26organization and he was followed
19:29he was disguised as a tourist a fishing enthusiast he had a rucksack on his back he had a tent in it
19:41and as the surveillance team watched him he was picked up in a van by a known associate of the kinnahan
19:47organization he was followed back to a premises where he was due to stay the night he was arrested the
19:58following morning he found all sorts of weird stuff telescopic equipment disguises there was masks
20:09and during his arrest an encrypted blackberry mobile phone was picked up
20:27this is the printout of those messages that were sent on that encrypted phone you know it shows what
20:33he's planning to do and how he hopes to go to belfast and to stalk his prey really and who was he going
20:41after he was going after a guy called james maggot gately and this was a military style operation
20:51he wanted a gun that was accurate and he wanted a silencer those messages read them because i think
20:58they show certainly a modus operandi that he's using incredible wouldn't it i'll have to read this and
21:05see how this fits in potentially to um to john palmer's murder
21:12so i'm just um reviewing the information that uh nicola gave us yesterday in relation to the text
21:35messages that were received on the blackberry phone very detailed information between four individuals
21:46one of whom is identified as imray arrakis talking about a very sophisticated plan for a professional
21:54assassination this is interesting because obviously here you can see the people who commissioned arrakis
22:01replied to ow which is arrakis as to how to go to and identify the target which is james gately and if you
22:14go further down into the text messages you see arrakis he's now responding where can we see photos of him
22:23they say go into google write james gately dublin criminal
22:31it's the second picture in he has a black suit on it's a clear picture of him that's the target
22:45by analyzing the preparation for this hit i want to see if there are any similarities between it
22:51and the murder of palmer and see if arrakis is a possible suspect
23:04the people who commissioned arrakis tell him that the target's car exits the rear of the building from
23:12a shutter which opens up and down champagne colored toyota eventis he drives most days he seems to go to
23:22nurian back we have a tracker on his car when he is 10 minutes away get in position he parts in the same
23:33space always so then you have him
23:47arrakis replies my plan was actually to go there tomorrow
23:52it seems it's possible to take him down when he comes out of the car
24:12it is good if the gun is really accurate
24:17also silencer would be good
24:22this is the shutter this is the shutter that's described in the text messages
24:37arrakis is hiding gately comes to here in his car his events this car comes in
24:44parks up directly in front as described in the text messages
24:47literally arrakis is bang bang bang and then he's out
24:54and then once he's out he's away gate is murdered dead
25:01perfect assassination
25:02even though he didn't get to carry out the murder arrakis has identified the vulnerabilities
25:19of gately it's all the pre-planning the whole the whole setup for the murder i can't see any cctv down
25:26here ideal place to exploit and kill gately and in similar fashion to um john palmer
25:40you've got the surveillance
25:41it's no cctv no cctv the use of a silencer it feels like a professional hit
25:55so
26:02hello is that you david it is yeah albert you okay yeah yeah just a big good news here remember you
26:09tasked me to look at the the arrakis as a potential suspect yeah arrakis yeah was in the country i.e. in
26:17the uk but more importantly in essex two weeks before the murder wow right i'll come on the way back
26:33oh how about you okay you've got some more for us haven't you well it was spoken to the same source
26:38that you know let let me just summarize what he said he's saying arrakis entered the uk
26:44in the weeks before palmer's death it's got similar fact if you look at the detail in relation to what
26:51happened in ireland silencer yeah preparation lifestyle surveillance coming into the uk into essex
26:59two weeks before the murder of john palmer
27:03he's a very very good suspect
27:07this is dynamite
27:14we've had information that a professional assassin imre arrakis had arrived in england just before
27:28the murder of john palmer i've tracked him down he's in lithuania at the moment
27:35he's standing trial he's been arrested for another murder another assassination
27:46and he's now on trial for gunning down a man outside his home
28:05um
28:09favorite
28:10and he's on the street
28:11and he was in america
28:12he's the most AFU
28:13full-funky
28:15and he had a court decision
28:17that was in the nuclear war
28:18but he was a motherfucker
28:19he was an unbelievable
28:20his favorite animal
28:22his arms
28:22was a bonito
28:24he was a good thing
28:24and he was a really good
28:26he was working
28:26and then he was working
28:28and I was just
28:28in the way
28:29and he was a really good
28:30my daughter
28:31my daughter
28:32He was a brilliant, very professional fighter, but, in words, he also had a different life in his life.
28:39He was able to provide contact with the people who were organized in the world.
28:46Very, very big figures in the drugs world. We are working with cartels.
28:53Yeah.
28:55Arakas, savo aukas, labai mėgdavo stabėti iki nužudimo.
29:02Ir netgi kažkurį laiką gyveno vienami iš netolies esančių būtų.
29:09Savo nužudimams naudojo keistos modifikacijos pistoletus.
29:16Galėjo būti pistoletus su duslintuvai.
29:19Ir būtent Remigai keistos modifikacijos Kalašnikov keistom įscentruotom kulkom.
29:28Kiek man deko girdėti iš aplinkinių žmonių pasakojimų.
29:33Remigiju Murkevičiu jisai tiesiog dar ėjo link žudiko.
29:37Arakas dar keletą kartų paspaudė iš Kalašnikov automato šuvio.
29:44Ir tuomet jau Remigai suklūpo ir nukriton džemės.
29:57This is the shootings.
30:06I think the Arakas is very dangerous man.
30:10Very.
30:12Cold blood killer, very.
30:20Hello Davies, I'm David.
30:22As I think you're aware, I'm investigating the murder of John Palmer back in 2015.
30:29But what we know so far is that Arakas arrived into Essex two weeks before the murder of John Palmer.
30:37He's obviously a professional, so he gets hired by people.
30:41People give him contracts to kill.
30:44Has he ever spoken about who has given him contracts to kill people?
30:49He don't want to talk about this.
30:52OK.
30:53As you know, it's a very big criminal organisation working with narco traffics in all Europe.
31:00In America, in Colombia, in Mexico.
31:04And it's very, very, very serious criminal organisations.
31:09And he is effectively a contract killer who works for those gangs.
31:14Yes, but he's been travelling man.
31:17Right.
31:18Travelling killer, I think.
31:19A travelling killer.
31:20Yeah.
31:21And we know he arrived in the UK two weeks before the murder of John Palmer.
31:33So it makes you wonder, doesn't it, whether or not he is the man who pulled the trigger.
31:52He is been feeling the bad way to drive to his death.
31:55He must result in his life.
31:56If he is suffering, he was also suffering his suffering in the world.
31:57So it does not have to be the victim in this country.
31:58It has never been fimmode.
31:59That's why we all have to try to take that because of the murder of John Palmer.
32:01It's the time that he does not own sex, for example.
32:02Let's do this for women to stop whatsappلاise.
32:04Let's do this for women who are so tired.
32:05We are so tired.
32:06We are so tired.
32:07While we were so tired and we were so tired.
32:10How should it not take a look?
32:11We are so tired and we're so tired.
32:14We are so tired and we're so tired and we're so tired.
32:21We know that Arakas is a really good suspect for the shooting.
32:26But Arakas is a professional hitman, and so someone employed him.
32:32So, the big question is what was going on in John Palmer's life at that time
32:41that meant he had to be murdered?
32:45So, we know that on the day of John Palmer's murder, he was in his lawn tractor
32:52and he was taking documents down to this area here.
32:55The only area in the house and garden where there's no CCTV.
33:00According to Essex police, he is burning documents at the time that he's assassinated.
33:15What was he burning? What were those documents?
33:21Were those documents evidence?
33:27Could they have potentially implicated John or other people?
33:34Recently, I travelled to Tenerife and I interviewed a man called Mohamed Durba.
33:41And he told me that John was being pursued by the Spanish authorities
33:45and they were getting closer and closer to charging him.
33:49And I've seen speculation about a Spanish fraud trial in the papers
33:54which echoes what one of my sources in Tenerife has turned up.
34:04So, I'm going back out there to see what he's got.
34:07So, I'm telling you, what have we got here?
34:20These are documents from the Spanish police itself
34:23about the illegal activities of John Palmer.
34:26Because the Spanish police was already after Palmer's steps
34:30for a long time, when they give the definitive coup
34:34that they decide to comply formally.
34:37These are the judicial duties
34:40of the Juzgado Central of Instruction No. 5
34:44of the National Audiences in Madrid.
34:45The procedure that is done for accusing John Palmer
34:49Here, they name the reports that he has
34:52for the banjo of capital, the fraud, evasion of taxes.
34:57It is perfectly detailed, with many fingerprints
35:00of the phone that serve, at the end,
35:02and to review the crimes that he was accused of.
35:05So, this is the 10th of April, 2015.
35:08And when is he due to go to court?
35:13This coincide, this date, the diligence,
35:15is when they assassinated Nathan in the United States
35:21to John Palmer.
35:22So, the week that John Palmer found out
35:25that he had the court date
35:27was the week that he got murdered.
35:29So, Spanish justice was catching up with John Palmer.
35:31See you.
35:32So, we know on the 10th of April, 2015,
35:48John Palmer is indicted with 10 others
35:51for fraud offences, firearms offences and money laundering
35:54in relation to the timeshare.
35:57In June, at some stage, the papers are served
36:00on the 10 defendants.
36:01So, there's clearly a legal noose
36:04tightening around John's neck and the others.
36:08Palmer was 64 years old
36:10and he was looking at 15 years in jail.
36:12So, the question is, would he have been tempted
36:15to get a deal to avoid prison?
36:17And if so, would someone have wanted to stop him?
36:20My name is Kevin Lane.
36:32I've previously been convicted of contract killing
36:35and I met John Palmer in Long Larton.
36:37When I first met John, John had just been sentenced
36:43for the timeshare.
36:45When I met him and he came into Long Larton,
36:47you could see he was at the age where,
36:49God, what am I doing here in prison
36:51with all the wealth that I've got?
36:52Long Larton had a serious reputation
36:55for making weapons in there.
36:57They had a metal shop in there.
36:58People used to make their own knives or spikes.
37:01Very dangerous place.
37:03And so, when was the last time you spoke to John?
37:07I spoke to him over the phone prior to his death
37:10when he lived in Essex.
37:14Just talking about the upcoming case,
37:17how he did want to go back to prison at his age.
37:22Yeah, I definitely know it hit him quite hard.
37:24In 2015, John Palmer was facing trial in Spain.
37:39And he was facing a really long time in prison
37:42if he was found guilty.
37:44And, like, at 64 years of age,
37:48that's a death sentence.
37:54At the time, it was suspected,
37:56or he was believed, certainly,
37:58to be cooperating.
38:02That he was going to rat.
38:04So you have to look at who was on the indictment,
38:11and, like, what did they stand to lose?
38:14And amongst those names is John Palmer's
38:17former business associate,
38:19a man facing a sentence
38:21that could have left him locked up
38:23in a Spanish jail for up to a decade.
38:26He was floating around the Casa del Sol,
38:29along with Palmer,
38:30and got very mixed up at some point
38:32with the Kinnaghan organisation.
38:35The same crew that had hired Imre Arrakis.
38:50David? How do you do?
38:51How are you? David, you all right?
38:52Yeah, pleased to meet you.
38:53I think you had involvement with John.
38:56You've known him for a considerable period of time
38:58since you were in prison.
38:59Yeah, yeah.
39:00Do you think, knowing the man,
39:02there was any potential
39:04that he would have gone to the police,
39:07spoken to the police,
39:08or given information?
39:09Do you think that's a possibility,
39:10knowing the man?
39:11Let's just be quite frank about this.
39:14Yeah.
39:15That's a possibility of anybody.
39:17Is it the truth?
39:18Doesn't mean it is.
39:19No.
39:20So I would have to say to you there,
39:21I see nothing of that in John.
39:24Um, he didn't give me any indication
39:26that he was going to do that.
39:27But then would you give indication
39:29to people you were going to do that?
39:30No.
39:31And so I'm being objective here.
39:32No, totally.
39:33Yeah.
39:34So I suppose one of the theories
39:37is that one of the people on the indictment,
39:40on the Spanish indictment that John is named on.
39:43You probably know who I'm talking about.
39:45But the man who's on that indictment
39:47is associated to the Kennings.
39:52Do you think, knowing that individual,
39:54do you think that there is any possibility
39:57that person could have jumped to the conclusion
40:01that John was going to talk about him?
40:03I wouldn't know.
40:04Right.
40:05Do you think that person's got the capability of doing
40:08what happened to John?
40:12Hasn't everybody?
40:13Yeah.
40:14Everybody's got all sorts of capabilities.
40:18That's all I'm saying.
40:20On that.
40:21Right.
40:22Got you.
40:23All right.
40:24Okay.
40:38So, the investigation's got to three primary motives.
40:45Revenge.
40:46Mickey McAvoy.
40:49Russia.
40:50And links to the Russian Mafia.
40:52And three, the Spanish indictment.
40:56Just before John Palmer is murdered,
40:58the Spanish issue an indictment.
41:02And it's really interesting.
41:04I ended up speaking to a journalist in Ireland
41:07who's very well connected
41:09and has been doing a lot of work around the Kinahan cartel.
41:13We had a long discussion around a man called Aratas
41:18who is an Estonian hitman.
41:20We have information that suggests that Aratas came into the UK
41:27just prior to John Palmer's murder
41:30and that he is a good possibility.
41:33The man who actually pulled the trigger
41:35who killed John Palmer.
41:37The question is, what was the motive?
41:42Who do you suspect put the money up for the hit?
41:47My gut feeling is that one of the individuals on the indictment
41:51could be the man who ordered the hit.
41:53I don't want to name him and compromise any future police investigation.
41:58But we do know that he was involved with Palmer in the early days.
42:02A very violent man, well capable of serious violence.
42:08Who is a close associate of the Kinahans.
42:11Right?
42:12He was very close to John.
42:14And intentionally the man on the indictment
42:18may have thought that John was going to implicate him
42:21and put the majority of the real grief onto this individual.
42:26So do we think John Palmer could have become an informant?
42:36Yes I do.
42:38Because a motivator would be the 15 year crime sentence
42:41he would want to reduce due to his age, due to his health.
42:45The Spanish indictment, you can't take away the timing.
42:47you've got to consider that that is the trigger
42:50that's motivated the assassination.
42:53I'm the same as you.
42:54You know, the Spanish indictment,
42:56so close to the modern time, is fitting the bill for me.
43:01There's a name on the indictment.
43:05Yeah.
43:06I like that magic. What evidence, isn't there?
43:07What have they got against him?
43:08Yeah.
43:09Yeah.
43:10Yeah.
43:11Got a good motive.
43:12Yeah.
43:13We have a good picture of him now.
43:14So he is a good, a very good possibility.
43:36So it's been almost 10 years to the date
43:39since John Palmer was murdered.
43:41So it's quite a meaningful time for the family.
43:48So I'm going to go back and speak to the daughter
43:51and see if I can update them around what
43:54we've uncovered so far in the investigation.
44:02Hello, how are you? You OK?
44:03Not too bad, thank you. Come on in.
44:05OK.
44:06Hi.
44:07Is he here?
44:08That would be lovely. Thank you.
44:13So it's been 10 years since your dad was killed.
44:17So as we approach the 10th anniversary,
44:19there's a renewed sense of urgency in this.
44:23The fact is that the truth is we may never know for certain
44:26who killed your dad.
44:27However, you know, we have uncovered strong new leads and they
44:32are new leads, you know, places where the police have not gone.
44:36OK.
44:37And I think it's for the first time that I feel that we've got
44:40something solid to move forward with.
44:42What we have found potentially is evidence that the hit man,
44:48professional assassin, was hired to kill your dad.
44:53That man is linked to probably the biggest drug cartel in the world,
44:59the Kinenden cartel.
45:02And the hit man involved is a man called Imre Arakas.
45:07We believe the information we've got is he travelled to the UK
45:11literally two weeks before John was killed.
45:14He has been involved in other murders.
45:17He's currently in prison in Lithuania.
45:20He's a professional hit man.
45:21So who do we think would have paid him?
45:26The motive that we think may be linked is that Dad had been told
45:32that he was going to face trial in Spain.
45:35They served the proceedings only weeks before Dad was killed
45:38and then people around that case feared that Dad was going
45:43to talk to the authorities.
45:45And I found the name in court papers.
45:48It was linked to both your dad and the Kinenden gang.
45:50If you tell me whether or not you know this man.
46:04That's the name.
46:06Yeah.
46:09Without naming him.
46:10What was your knowledge of that particular man?
46:13Or is that just something you've heard?
46:15No, I know that he did used to work for my dad.
46:17I'd heard conversations between my dad and that person talking quite often to him.
46:24It was said that my dad was able to do things from prison, but in all the honest truth of it, other people were having to run things.
46:36So he was employed by your dad. Did you ever hear anything that would suggest that they fell out at any stage?
46:41Well, yeah. I know that he did stop working for my dad. I think he was probably doing some things that maybe my dad would have not wanted it done in that particular way.
46:53Right. Gotcha. Our intention is to give this information in the form of a report to the police. And it's their job then to take it on. It's their job to progress it. And hopefully, you know, there may be some closure for you.
47:11Yeah. I think it's just a bit of time to process things. But it's better to have something, some information than where it was before, where we didn't have any.
47:24And I hope at some point, they will look into the person on the piece of paper in more depth.
47:36It's quite a lot to process. The idea of somebody close to my dad at some point could then organise my dad's murder.
47:49I spent over 40 years investigating organised crime. And John Palmer led an extraordinary life.
48:08He came from nothing to become one of the most notorious and richest criminals in UK history. But the empire that he built came at a price. And he created enemies all around the world.
48:24Our 18-month investigation has taken us from Essex to Tenerife, from Ireland to Lithuania. And it's shot a light on some of the most dangerous criminal gangs in the world.
48:37We've uncovered evidence that points towards the hitman and the person who had the motive to kill John Palmer. We're going to hand that evidence over to the police.
48:50But ultimately, someone in the criminal underworld knows exactly what happened to John Palmer.
48:57Ten years on, perhaps one of them is ready to step forward. And the murder of John Palmer will finally be solved.
49:06Ten years on, perhaps one of them is solved.
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