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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 rounds?
01:47Did your dad ever get death rounds?
01:48Did your dad ever get death rounds?
01:49Not that I was aware of, no.
01:50No.
01:51No.
01:52He never acted like he was in fear of his life.
01:55All I kept thinking is, why?
01:56Why somebody would even want to kill my dad?
01:57Why somebody would even want to kill my dad?
01:59Why somebody would even want to kill my dad?
02:01Why somebody would want to kill my dad?
02:03Why somebody would want to kill my dad?
02:05Why somebody would want to kill my dad?
02:06Why somebody would want to kill my dad?
02:07Why somebody would want to kill my dad?
02:08Why somebody would want to kill my dad?
02:13Why somebody would want to kill my dad?
02:27One of Britain's most notorious gangsters, shot at close range.
02:34But who ordered John Palmer's murder and why?
02:38You 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.
03:04Come on, stay off the ropes, stay off the ropes.
03:08Whoa!
03:09You're wide open too, wide open there.
03:11John Palmer did four years for timeshare fraud.
03:16While Palmer was inside, his former right-hand man, Mo Durba, moved in on his territory and
03:22ran it like his own empire.
03:27When Palmer got out, his assets were frozen, the Spanish police were sniffing about, and
03:33rival gangs were coming in from all directions.
03:36So he did what any old school fighter would do.
03:39He tucked in his chin, he slipped back to Essex, and he took cover.
03:44But for Palmer, this wasn't the kind of game you can just retire from.
03:51Because in his line of work, there's always the risk that someone's gonna come after you
03:56with a sucker punch.
03:57And when it finally came to the end, there were actually two killers that took him down.
04:03One with enough money to buy a contract hit, the other came with a silenced pistol.
04:30I've been investigating the murder of John Palmer now for a year.
04:36There's two distinct theories we're looking at at the moment.
04:42First one is Brinks-Matt.
04:49Mickey McAvoy, revenge.
04:52McAvoy was being screwed by people on the outside.
04:55He was violent, and he may have had a motive to kill John Palmer.
04:59And the second theory is that Palmer was killed by the Russian Mafia.
05:04Do you know how much debt Palmer was in?
05:07A million pounds a week, interest it is.
05:09That's interest.
05:10That's just interest.
05:11That's just interest.
05:12Wow.
05:13They put out the hit on John Palmer, and assassins carried out the hit.
05:18Over the years, police have chased hundreds of leads without charging anyone.
05:23Rumours and speculation are rife in the press and social media, but there must be more to uncover.
05:29At his old Bailey trial 14 years ago, gangster John Palmer wore a bulletproof vest.
05:36In June, alone and vulnerable in the garden of his Essex home, he was shot dead.
05:42John Palmer's underworld life meant he was a potential target for many years, and he knew it.
05:49The bulletproof vest, this secluded home.
05:52What 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.
06:01In reality, he'd withdrawn into a fortress.
06:07The house was wired with CCTV covering every angle, and he had four guard dogs on a daily rotation.
06:14So you've got to ask what kind of assassin could breach this level of security, shoot John six times, and vanish without a trace.
06:23So I'm going to meet Philip Boyce, a firearms expert who's 40 years' experience.
06:33We'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.
06:46Morning Philip.
06:47Morning.
06:48You okay?
06:49Yeah.
06:50Nice to see you again.
06:51And you.
06:52This is obviously the public footpath.
07:01This is the, 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 fence?
07:12Yes.
07:13Yeah.
07:14Quite a big area of property as well.
07:17Yeah, it's massive.
07:18So the path goes off to the, slightly to the left and there's like a dip down.
07:22And it's over on the, that part of the fence where they say there was a hole.
07:27That the shooter had kept observation on John.
07:31So this is the, effectively the scene.
07:36So you've got John Palmer on his lawn tractor, backwards and forwards to an area over here.
07:51Yeah.
07:52Which is where he's burning documents.
07:53Yeah.
07:54Which is where he's burning documents.
07:56The shooter is hiding behind the fence.
08:09Mm-hmm.
08:10No CCTV in this area.
08:12The shooter goes over the fence.
08:13Shoots John three times in the front.
08:16Three times in the back.
08:17Three times in the back.
08:18The shooter is hiding behind the fence, no CCTV in this area.
08:32The shooter goes over the fence, shoots John three times in the front, three times in the
08:42back and then he's found about 15 metres away.
08:54The gun, there's no cartridges anywhere, nobody hears the shots.
09:01At the time they didn't know what had happened to him, obviously many, many days later they
09:06find six bullet wounds in him and according to the police it was a .32 calibre silenced
09:14weapon.
09:15What's your views on that?
09:17To give you an idea of the range of calibres, you can have something like a .22 calibre.
09:23Right.
09:24That's quite small, you wouldn't think that would kill someone.
09:27That will travel for maybe a mile and a half from a rifle or a pistol.
09:32The .32 calibre, which is the one we're talking about, it's developing somewhere in the region
09:40of 190-200 foot-pounds, so it's got good injury stroke lethal power and also the bullets recovered
09:52were from a smoothbore barrel, which may indicate the weapon used was a silenced revolver.
10:00I have two guns here and this is a typical size of a .32 revolver.
10:12And why is it that you think the police considered it was a revolver that was used in the murder?
10:19Well again, really to demonstrate it, this is a sound moderator and inside the sound moderator
10:28is a series of metal baffles.
10:31Whenever it's fitted to a gun, the bullet sometimes hits those baffles and there must have been
10:37some marks on the bullet to suggest that it was fired through a silencer or a sound moderator.
10:42Exploration marks on the actual bullet itself?
10:44Yes.
10:45So the likelihood is the gun that was used to kill John Palmer had been adapted so that
10:51it would have the silencer just screw on the top?
10:53Yeah.
10:54I would suspect so.
10:55So with this, the bullets would still be loaded, but literally you've got to pull back the
11:01trigger mechanism each time to fire?
11:03Yeah.
11:04And you've got six shots and you fire them all?
11:07And you fire three in the front, three in the back with a silencer.
11:12No forensics, determined professional assassin?
11:16Possibly, yes.
11:18The 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 a professional
11:30assassin.
11:31Bye.
11:48So we know that the shooter managed to kill John in an area of the garden where there
11:55was no CCTV.
11:56And we know that he used a weapon that was very quiet.
12:02And we know also they've been carrying out surveillance, reconnaissance on John and identified
12:09his routine.
12:11So they picked the right moment to kill John Palmer.
12:17So it looks like a professional hitman.
12:21There's not many gangs that use professional assassins.
12:25We know Russian Mafia are one, but I've found no hard evidence to back this theory.
12:32They've received a lead from a source in Ireland about an organised crime gang in Dublin with
12:39very close ties to John Palmer.
12:41They use professional hitmen to carry out their dirty work.
12:45That appears to me to be a very good lead to follow.
12:49I've known about John Palmer for years.
13:06I certainly knew about his career.
13:08And, of course, the Timeshares and Tenerife.
13:13So as a crime journalist, when one of the wealthiest criminals in the UK is killed, you know that
13:19there is a really big story behind it.
13:22I remember when I first heard that John Palmer had been murdered because I was starting to
13:33make connections between Palmer, some of his associates, and people I was writing about.
13:38The biggest organised crime gang in this country, the Kinnehan organization.
13:44Two family groupings from Dublin who had joined together, the Hutch side and the Kinnehan side.
13:52They've been described as a murderous drug-dealing cartel.
13:57And they migrate to Spain and the Costa del Sol.
14:01And John Palmer, of course, had his own businesses down in the Costa del Sol.
14:06The likes of Palmer, the likes of the Kinnehan's, they all know one another.
14:13And they all are in business, at some point together, in one way or another.
14:262016, there was a boxing weigh-in in the Regency Hotel.
14:32This feud had broken out within the Kinnehan organization and the leadership of the Kinnehan
14:38organization were going to be there.
14:40And as they run out the front of the hotel, members of what looks like the armed response
15:09unit start making their way into the hotel.
15:15Most people believed they were the police, but they were actually the Hutch organized crime
15:20group armed with Kalashnikov rifles hunting for the head of the Kinnehan organized crime
15:25group.
15:27I got a phone call from the photographer I was working with, and he had captured an image
15:33of what he believed was a gunman and a woman fleeing from the scene.
15:40When he focused in a bit further, he could see that it was a gunman and another gunman in
15:47drag.
15:48It almost looks like something from a scene from Reservoir Dogs.
15:58That was the moment that this Hutch Kinnehan feud really exploded.
16:01Michael Barr was shot dead last month by two gunmen who burst into the Sunset House Pub in the Summer
16:08Hill area.
16:09Forensic specialists today examining the scene of last night's gangland murder in Dublin.
16:14This gang feud turned parts of this city, the inner city here in Dublin, into an absolute
16:19war zone. 18 young men dead.
16:22In the aftermath of this, something very unusual happened.
16:32Out of the blue, this weird sort of anonymous Twitter site appeared called the Whistleblower.
16:40This site was tagging journalists like myself, crime journalists, trying to alert you, trying
16:45to get your attention.
16:48And it starts giving information about cartel murders, in-house murders.
16:56I'm communicating with people I know, high open the guards, and they're telling me, this
17:02is fucking accurate.
17:04It was investigated by the police here, and it was discovered that this was the Hutch organised
17:10crime group that was behind it, and they were ready to spill the secrets of the Kinnehan's.
17:21One of the secrets that that whistleblower site let out claims that Hitman for Hire working
17:28for the Kinnehan Cartel killed John Palmer.
17:41So, we've come over to Dublin to meet with a journalist who has been investigating organised crime out
17:59in Ireland, in Dublin, and she has intelligence on a hitman who could be a suspect in the murder
18:07of John Palmer.
18:19So, Nicola, what happened to John Palmer and how he was murdered?
18:23What do you think?
18:24I have a theory.
18:26About two years after John Palmer was shot, an international contract killer showed up
18:35here in Dublin.
18:36Right.
18:37He was employed by the Kinnehan Cartel to take out one of their sworn enemies.
18:44And when he flew in from Alicante, he was here to kill.
18:55The Irish police got a tip off that there was a man on the way in to the airport, and his
19:03name was Imre Arrakis.
19:07He was known as an international hitman for hire.
19:12He was wanted in a number of countries for murder.
19:20He was in the grip of a gang feud.
19:23And they knew that he had previously worked with the Kinnehan organisation, and he was followed.
19:32He was disguised as a tourist, a fishing enthusiast.
19:36He had a rucksack on his back, he had a tent in it, and as the surveillance team watched him,
19:43he was picked up in a van by a known associate of the Kinnehan organisation.
19:52He was followed back to a premises where he was due to stay the night.
19:57He was arrested the following morning.
19:59He found all sorts of weird stuff, telescopic equipment, disguises, there was masks.
20:10And during his arrest, an encrypted BlackBerry mobile phone was picked up.
20:25This is the printout of those messages that were sent on that encrypted phone.
20:32You know, it shows what he's planning to do, and how he hopes to go to Belfast and to stalk
20:39his prey really.
20:40And who was he going after?
20:43He was going after a guy called James Magogaitley, and this was a military style operation.
20:52He wanted a gun that was accurate, and he wanted a silencer.
20:56Those messages, read them because I think they show certainly a modus operandi that he's
21:02using.
21:03Incredible, isn't it?
21:04I'll have to read this and see how this fits in potentially to John Palmer's murder.
21:22So I'm just reviewing the information that Nicola gave us yesterday in relation to the text
21:35messages that were received on the BlackBerry phone.
21:43Very detailed information between four individuals.
21:46One of whom is identified as Imre Arrakas, talking about a very sophisticated plan for a professional
21:54assassination.
21:55This is interesting because obviously here you can see the people who commissioned Arrakas
22:02replied to OW, which is Arrakas, as to how to go to and identify the target, which is
22:12James Gately.
22:14And if you go further down into the text messages, you see Arrakas.
22:20He's now responding, where can we see photos of him?
22:24They say, go into Google, write James Gately, Dublin criminal.
22:32It's the second picture in.
22:34He has a black suit on.
22:37It's a clear picture of him.
22:39That's the target.
22:45By analysing the preparation for this hit, I want to see if there are any similarities
22:50between it and the murder of Palmer.
22:55And see if Arrakas is a possible suspect.
23:04The people who commissioned Arrakas tell him that the target's car exits the rear of the
23:11building from a shutter which opens up and down.
23:15Champagne-coloured Toyota Aventis.
23:19He drives most days, he seems to go to Nureen back.
23:24We have a tracker on his car.
23:28When he is ten minutes away, get in position.
23:32He parks in the same space always.
23:35So then you have him.
23:39Arrakas replies, my plan was actually to go there tomorrow.
23:54It seems it's possible to take him down when he comes out of the car.
24:00It is good if the gun is really accurate.
24:17Also, silencer would be good.
24:26This is the shutter.
24:27This is the shutter that's described in the text messages.
24:37Arrakas is hiding, Gately comes to here, in his car, in his Aventis.
24:42Car comes in, parks up directly in front as described in the text messages.
24:48Literally Arrakas is bang, bang, bang.
24:51And then he's out.
24:55And then once he's out, he's away, Gately's murdered, dead.
25:02Perfect assassination.
25:12Even though he didn't get to carry out the murder, Arrakas has identified the vulnerabilities
25:19of Gately.
25:21It's all the pre-planning, the whole set-up for the murder.
25:24I can't see any CCTV down here.
25:28Ideal place to exploit and kill Gately, and in similar fashion to John Palmer.
25:40You've got the surveillance, no CCTV, the use of a silencer.
25:47It feels like a professional here.
25:51Hello?
25:52Is that you, David?
25:53It is, yeah.
25:54Albert, you OK?
25:55Yeah, yeah.
25:56Just to make good news here, remember you tasked me to look at the Arrakas as a potential
25:59suspect.
26:00Yeah.
26:01Arrakas was in the country, i.e. in the UK, but more importantly, in Essex two weeks
26:06before the murder.
26:07Wow.
26:08Right, I'll come on the way back.
26:10How about you, OK?
26:11You've got some more for us, haven't you?
26:12Well, we've spoken to the same source that you know.
26:14Let me just summarise what he's saying.
26:15He's saying, Arrakas entered the UK in New York, and then, you've got some more for us,
26:20haven't you?
26:21Well, we've spoken to the same source that you know.
26:25Let me just summarise what he's saying.
26:41He's saying, Arrakas entered the UK in the weeks before Palmer's death.
26:48It's got similar facts.
26:49If you look at the data in relation to what happened in Ireland...
26:53Silencer.
26:54Yeah.
26:55Preparation, lifestyle surveillance, coming into the UK, into Essex, two weeks before the
27:00murder of John Palmer.
27:04He's a very, very good suspect.
27:05This is dynamite.
27:19We've had information that a professional assassin, Imre Arrakas, had arrived in England just
27:28before the murder of John Palmer.
27:31I've tracked him down.
27:33He's in Lithuania at the moment.
27:39He's standing trial.
27:40He's been arrested for another murder, another assassination.
27:47And he's now on trial for gunning down a man outside his home.
27:54He's in Lithuania at the moment.
28:06Imre Arrakas is the most famous name in Europe.
28:13He's in Lithuania.
28:19He's a brilliant, very professional fighter.
28:35But, in words, he had a different way of the life of his life.
28:40He left his contact with the people from the society of the organization.
28:46Very, very big figures in the drugs world.
28:50We are working with cartels.
28:53Yeah.
28:57Arakas, Savoukas, was a lot to stop for the punishment.
29:02I've lived in one of the most recent years.
29:11My name was used to be a key modification of the pistolets.
29:16It was a pistolet with the lintu.
29:19It was a key modification of the Kalashnikov.
29:25A key modification of the Kulka.
29:28How much I was able to hear from the people's stories.
29:32Remigio Murkevičio, he even went to Zudiko.
29:38Arakis again a few times,
29:41turned off from the automaton.
29:45And that time Remigio already sank and sank on the ground.
29:49This is the shootings, the other birds.
30:06I think the Arrakas is very dangerous man, very cold blood killer, very.
30:18Hello, Davies. I'm David.
30:22As I think you're aware, I'm investigating the murder of John Palmer back in 2015.
30:29What we know so far is that Arrakas 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?
30:48He don't want to talk about this.
30:51Okay.
30:52Because, as you know, it's a very big criminal organization working with narco traffics in all Europe.
31:00In America, in Colombia, in Mexico, and very, very, very serious criminal organizations.
31:09And he is effectively a contract killer who works for those gangs.
31:14Yes, but he's been traveling man.
31:17Right.
31:18Traveling killer, I think.
31:19A traveling killer.
31:20Yeah.
31:21And we know he arrived in the U.K. two weeks before the murder of John Palmer.
31:32And we know he arrived in the UK two weeks before the murder of John Palmer.
31:46So it makes you wonder doesn't it whether or not he is the man who pulled the trigger.
32:02We know that Arakas is a really good suspect for the shooting, but Arakas is a professional
32:29hitman, and so someone employed him.
32:34So the big question is what was going on in John Palmer's life at that time that meant
32:42he had to be murdered?
32:46So we know that on the day of John Palmer's murder, he was in his lawn tractor and he was
32:53taking documents down to this area here.
32:55The only area in the house and garden where there's no CCTV.
33:10According to Essex police, he is burning documents at the time that he's assassinated.
33:19What was he burning?
33:20What were those documents?
33:23Were those documents evidence?
33:27Could they have potentially implicated John?
33:31Or other people?
33:35Recently I travelled to Tenerife and I interviewed a man called Mohamed Durba.
33:42And he told me that John was being pursued by the Spanish authorities and they were getting
33:46closer and closer to charging him.
33:50And I've seen speculation about a Spanish fraud trial in the papers, which echoes what one
33:55of my sources in Tenerife has turned up.
34:02So I'm going back out there to see what he's got.
34:14So I'm telling you, what have we got here?
34:20These are documents from the Spanish police itself about the illicit activities of John Palmer,
34:26because the Spanish police was already after Palmer's steps for a long time.
34:31But they have done the definitive golpe, which they decide to formally impute.
34:37These are the judicial duties of the Central Juzgado of Instruction No. 5 of the National Audiences in Madrid.
34:45The procedure that is done to accuse John Palmer.
34:48Here they name the reports that he has for the capital plan, the evasion of taxes, the evasion of taxes.
34:55So this is the 10th of April, 2015, and when is he due to go to court?
35:12So the week that John Palmer found out that he had the court date was the week that he got murdered.
35:29So Spanish justice was catching up with John Palmer.
35:32Yes.
35:42So we know on the 10th of April, 2015, John Palmer is indicted with 10 others for fraud offences, firearms offences and money laundering in relation to the timeshare.
35:56In June, at some stage, the papers are served on the 10 defendants.
36:01So there's clearly a legal noose tightening around John's neck and the others.
36:07Palmer was 64 years old and he was looking at 15 years in jail.
36:13So the question is, would he have been tempted to 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 and I met John Palmer in Long Larton.
36:37When I first met John, John had just been sentenced for the timeshare.
36:45When I met him and he came into Long Larton, you could see he was at the age where, God, what am I doing here in prison with all the wealth that I've got?
36:52Long Larton had a serious reputation for 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 when he lived in Essex.
37:14Just talking about the upcoming case, how 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 if he was found guilty.
37:45And, like, at 64 years of age, that's a death sentence.
37:54At the time, it was suspected, or he was believed, certainly, to be cooperating.
38:01That he was going to rat.
38:08So you have to look at who was on the indictment and, like, what did they stand to lose?
38:14And amongst those names is John Palmer's former business associate.
38:19A man facing a sentence that could have left him locked up in a Spanish jail for up to a decade.
38:27He was floating around the Casa del Sol, along with Palmer,
38:30and got very mixed up at some point with the Kinnaghan organisation.
38:34The same crew that had hired Imre Arrakis.
38:49David? How do you do? How are you? David, you all right?
38:51Yeah, pleased to meet you.
38:53I think you had involvement with John.
38:56You've known him for a considerable period of time since you were in prison.
38:59Yeah, yeah.
39:00Do you think, knowing the man, there was any potential that he would have gone to the police, spoken to the police, or given information?
39:08Do you think that's a possibility, knowing the man?
39:10Let's just be quite frank about this.
39:13Yeah.
39:14That's a possibility of anybody.
39:16Is it the truth? Doesn't mean it is.
39:18No.
39:19No.
39:20So I would have to say to you there, I see nothing of that in John.
39:24Um, he didn't give me any indication that he was going to do that.
39:27But then would you give indication to 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 is that one of the people on the indictment, on the Spanish indictment that John is named on, you probably know who I'm talking about.
39:44But the man who's on that indictment is associated to the Kenans.
39:49Do you think, knowing that individual, do you think that there is any possibility that person could have jumped to the conclusion that 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 what happened to John?
40:10Hasn't everybody?
40:12Yeah.
40:13Everybody's got all sorts of capabilities.
40:16That's all I'm saying.
40:19On that.
40:20Right.
40:21Got you.
40:22Alright.
40:37Okay.
40:38So, the investigation's got to three primary motives.
40:44Revenge.
40:45Mickey McAvoy.
40:47Russia.
40:48And links to the Russian Mafia.
40:51And three, the Spanish indictment.
40:55Just before John Palmer is murdered, the Spanish issue an indictment and it's really interesting.
41:03I ended up speaking to a journalist in Ireland who's very well connected and has been doing a lot of work around the Kinahan cartel.
41:13We had a long discussion around a man called Arrakas who is an Estonian hitman.
41:20We have information that suggests that Arrakas came into the UK just prior to John Palmer's murder and that he is a good possibility.
41:33The man who actually pulled the trigger who killed John Palmer.
41:38The question is, what was the motive?
41:42Who do you suspect put the money up for the hit?
41:44My gut feeling is that one of the individuals on the indictment could be the man who ordered the hit.
41:53I don't want to name him and compromise any future police investigation.
41:57But we do know that he was involved with Palmer in the early days, a very violent man, well capable of serious violence, who is a close associate of the Kinahans.
42:11Right? He was very close to John and intentionally the man on the indictment may have thought that John was going to implicate him and put the majority of the real grief onto this individual.
42:26So do we think John Palmer could have become an informant?
42:35Yes, I do.
42:37Because a motivator would be the 15 year crime sentence he would want to reduce due to his age, due to his health.
42:43The Spanish indictment, you can't take away the timing. You've got to consider that that is the trigger that's motivated the assassination.
42:53I'm the same as you. You know, the Spanish indictment, so close to the modern time, is fitting the bill for me.
43:01There's a name on the indictment.
43:04Yeah.
43:06That's that magic. What evidence, isn't there? What have they got against them?
43:08Yeah. Yeah.
43:09Yeah. Yeah.
43:10He's got a good motive.
43:11Yeah.
43:12We have a good picture of him now. So he is a good, a very good possibility.
43:18So it's been almost 10 years to the date since John Palmer was murdered. So it's quite a meaningful time for the family.
43:44So I'm going to go back and speak to the daughter and see if I can update them around what we've uncovered so far in the investigation.
44:01Hello, how are you? Are you OK?
44:02Not too bad, thank you. Come on in.
44:05OK.
44:06Hi.
44:07Is it here?
44:08Yeah, that would be lovely. Thank you.
44:09So it's been 10 years since your dad was killed. So as we approach the 10th anniversary, there's a renewed sense of urgency in this.
44:22The fact is that the truth is we may never know for certain who killed your dad.
44:27However, you know, we have uncovered strong new leads and they are new leads, you know, places where the police have not gone.
44:35OK.
44:36And I think it's for the first time that I feel that we've got something solid to move forward with.
44:42What we have found potentially is evidence that a hitman, a professional assassin, was hired to kill your dad.
44:53That man is linked to probably the biggest drug cartel in the world, the Kinnan cartel.
45:00And the hitman involved is a man called Imre Arakas.
45:06We believe the information we've got is he travelled to the UK literally two weeks before John was killed.
45:13He has been involved in other murders. He's currently in prison in Lithuania.
45:19He's a professional hitman.
45:21So who do we think would have paid him?
45:25The motive that we think may be linked is that Dad had been told that he was going to face trial in Spain.
45:34They served the proceedings only weeks before Dad was killed.
45:37And then people around that case feared that Dad was going to talk to the authorities.
45:44And I found the name in court papers, it was linked to both your dad and the Kinnan gang.
45:50You tell me whether or not you know this man.
45:55That's the name. Yeah.
46:08Without naming him, what was your knowledge of that particular man? Or is that just something you've heard?
46:13No, 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 and truth of it, other people were having to run things.
46:35So 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.
46:45I 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.
47:05It'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.
47:25And I hope at some point they will look into the person on the piece of paper in more depth.
47:35It's quite a lot to process.
47:39The 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.
48:07He came from nothing to become one of the most notorious and richest criminals in UK history.
48:17But the empire that he built came at a price and he created enemies all around the world.
48:23Our 18-month investigation has taken us from Essex to Tenerife, from Ireland to Lithuania.
48:32And it's shot a light on some of the most dangerous criminal gangs in the world.
48:39We've uncovered evidence that points towards the hitman and the person who had the motive to kill John Palmer.
48:47We're going to hand that evidence over to the police.
48:51But ultimately, someone in the criminal underworld knows exactly what happened to John Palmer.
48:58Ten years on, perhaps one of them is ready to step forward.
49:03And the murder of John Palmer will finally be solved.
49:21And the murder of John Palmer as a woman's death.
49:33And the murder of John Palmer is a major at a crime, as the victim of the容易 of death.
49:37And the murder of John Palmer is aazi.
49:39He acts as a crime that's killed by the death behind the death.
49:41From the murder of John Palmer, the death of John Palmer is the king.
49:43It's been a murder of John Palmer.
49:44You
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