ποΈ Murdered or Missing (2026) - Season 1 Episode 1 β
SERIES PREMIERE
Every missing person case begins with a question: what really happened? In Episode 1 "The First Disappearance", investigators examine a perplexing case where a person vanished without a trace, leaving behind only fragmented clues and a family desperate for answers. Through forensic analysis, witness interviews, and digital reconstruction, detectives piece together a timeline that challenges assumptions and reveals hidden truths. Was this a tragic accident, a calculated crime, or something in between?
πΉ Episode Highlights:
β’ Case introduction: a compelling missing persons investigation with high emotional stakes
β’ Forensic deep dive: DNA, digital footprints, and environmental evidence converge
β’ Family perspective: the enduring pain of uncertainty and the fight for closure
β’ Investigative methodology: how modern techniques solve cold and complex cases
β’ Signature true crime intensity: meticulous reporting + human stories + unforgettable twists
πΉ Series Info:
β’ Format: True Crime Documentary / Missing Persons / Investigative Serial
β’ Original Network: [Crime Network] / International Streaming
β’ Series Launch: 2026 | Season: 1 | Episode: 1 | Title: "The First Disappearance" β PREMIERE
β’ Setting: United States / Canada (Various Locations) | Language: English
β’ Runtime: ~42-45 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
π§ Prefer audio? Listen to true crime recaps & missing persons podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
π Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "What do you think happened in this case? π" Turn on notifications π for Episode 2!
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Every missing person case begins with a question: what really happened? In Episode 1 "The First Disappearance", investigators examine a perplexing case where a person vanished without a trace, leaving behind only fragmented clues and a family desperate for answers. Through forensic analysis, witness interviews, and digital reconstruction, detectives piece together a timeline that challenges assumptions and reveals hidden truths. Was this a tragic accident, a calculated crime, or something in between?
πΉ Episode Highlights:
β’ Case introduction: a compelling missing persons investigation with high emotional stakes
β’ Forensic deep dive: DNA, digital footprints, and environmental evidence converge
β’ Family perspective: the enduring pain of uncertainty and the fight for closure
β’ Investigative methodology: how modern techniques solve cold and complex cases
β’ Signature true crime intensity: meticulous reporting + human stories + unforgettable twists
πΉ Series Info:
β’ Format: True Crime Documentary / Missing Persons / Investigative Serial
β’ Original Network: [Crime Network] / International Streaming
β’ Series Launch: 2026 | Season: 1 | Episode: 1 | Title: "The First Disappearance" β PREMIERE
β’ Setting: United States / Canada (Various Locations) | Language: English
β’ Runtime: ~42-45 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
π§ Prefer audio? Listen to true crime recaps & missing persons podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
π Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "What do you think happened in this case? π" Turn on notifications π for Episode 2!
#ShowTVMovies #MurderedOrMissing #TrueCrime #TheFirstDisappearance #S01E01 #MissingPersons #InvestigativeTV #BingeWatch #CrimeDocumentary #JusticeSeekers
β οΈ Copyright Disclaimer: This video is shared for promotional, review, and informational purposes only. All rights to "Murdered or Missing" belong to the respective producers and networks. This upload complies with Fair Use guidelines (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No copyright infringement intended.
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01:00In my 25 years of service as a police officer, a crime like this is just unheard of.
01:12It's so unbelievably macabre.
01:16It was like being involved in a Guy Ritchie crime thriller.
01:21It really had that feel to it.
01:24Since the family went missing, there's been speculation that Amajit Chohan, who owns this fruit import business in Southall, had
01:31become mixed up with criminal organisations.
01:34It was as if they had just vanished in an instant.
01:38At the least, they were missing people, but the worst, been murdered.
01:43This inquiry has taken on a disturbing twist, with detectives here at New Scotland Yard liaising closely with their counterparts
01:50in India and France.
01:53He covered his tracks very well initially, until you start investigating it further.
01:59Something was clearly wrong. Something was deeply suspicious.
02:02Everything we tested was coming back negative.
02:06Clearly, the scene had been cleaned up.
02:09In all my years as a forensic scientist, this is one of those cases that will stay with me forever.
02:14It's unfathomable.
02:17This has been one of Britain's biggest ever cases.
02:21Thousands of police officers, both here and abroad, have been involved.
02:25And the mystery surrounding the family's disappearance continues.
02:30The Chohan case is chilling, savage and shocking.
02:34And I've reported cases for over 40 years.
02:37It's beyond belief that they went to those lengths just for pure greed.
03:09I was very excited because I was going to see Nancy after nine years.
03:14And it was like a family reunion after a long time.
03:35When I was trying to get hold of Nancy, I was trying to get hold of mom, Anil, nobody was
03:39there.
03:42So, you know, I thought something's not right.
03:49Uncle Verma was becoming particularly concerned.
03:52He kept messaging the police and trying to raise it at a higher level.
03:56And it got to the point where Hounslow Missing Persons Department took the case on.
04:02And they would make some sort of general local inquiries regarding any sort of missing person that was brought to
04:08the police's attention.
04:09And most of those were resolved pretty quickly.
04:11So, you had Amarjit Chohan, his young wife, Nancy.
04:18They had two young boys, Devinder and Ravinder.
04:22And Nancy's mother, Charanjit Kaur, had been visiting the family because of the new baby.
04:28So, she was in the UK visiting the family.
04:30And she had also gone missing.
04:34In the UK, it's quite common for people to go missing.
04:38But the fact that five individuals often vanished, that in itself is quite a rarity.
04:51Hounslow Police Station, their missing persons unit, went to visit the Chohan family home.
05:01And the local officers had peered through the windows, knocked on the doors.
05:09As far as they can see, the house wasn't in disarray, hadn't been disturbed.
05:13There was certainly no forced entry.
05:16The neighbours hadn't seen anything until ward.
05:18So, the local officers, they couldn't see any signs of concern.
05:24For the police, they have their hands full, it's fair to say, on major crimes.
05:28And, of course, they have to investigate missing persons.
05:32But a phone call, particularly from New Zealand, is not going to press the buttons to launch a major inquiry.
05:37It is understandable from the police point of view in those circumstances.
05:41But the fact is, a family had gone missing for no reason and without explanation.
06:02I'm the national director of an organisation called the Monitoring Group, established to help individuals and communities suffering racism, policing
06:12issues, sexual domestic violence and hate crimes.
06:16It was really about forcing the police to investigate things properly.
06:23The only thing that was available for us was to put pressure on the police, either through media or through
06:28campaigning or through taking up cases which became significant.
06:33I remember exactly when I met Anka Verma, he came to our office in March 2003.
06:42He'd arrived in this country a week before from New Zealand on a single ticket to find out what had
06:48happened to Nancy, Amarjeet and the mother and the two kids.
06:54He showed me Amarjeet's photograph with Nancy.
07:02When I saw the photograph, I said to him, I actually remember this family because I saw them at a
07:09restaurant not far from our office, actually 100 yards away.
07:13I remember a very beautiful young woman with a sari and the two kids, one running around and an older
07:19woman sitting at a table.
07:22It's one of the moments that you register because it is, it's, it's, it's canny.
07:31Anka and Nancy were very, very, very close to each other.
07:35They spoke on a daily basis.
07:37They'd been married on the same day.
07:38He'd gone off to New Zealand with his wife and she'd come to England.
07:45Nancy started working for Amarjeet Johan as his secretary.
07:50He fell in love with her and she fell in love with him, despite the age difference of 20-odd
07:56years.
08:05Anka said to me that he had spoken to his sister on her telephone on Valentine's Day 2003.
08:15He then rang her the next day.
08:21But nobody answered the phone and everything went bad.
08:24He kept on trying for another week.
08:27Anka believed something was suspicious.
08:31Then he rang Hounslow Police Station, which is a local police station in the area that they lived.
08:36And they said they'd done the inquiry.
08:40And he started feeling that the police weren't doing enough.
08:45He seemed lost and he seemed as if nobody was listening to him.
08:51And he traveled all this way and he was desperate to get somebody to take him seriously.
08:56And I think that's why he came to us.
09:00I thought, whole family going is very strange.
09:07And what we decided was to get the most senior police officer we could from Scotland Yard.
09:14In 2003, 21st of March, I was first informed about the Chohan family.
09:21They'd been missing for a couple of weeks.
09:26I knew Sir Resh Grover from many other inquiries where he had helped people from certain communities
09:33that had had their loved ones either murdered or were missing.
09:53Police formed a cordon around the demonstrators but couldn't stop the violence.
10:22The first report stated that we'd fouled Stephen Lawrence.
10:27We fouled the Lawrence family.
10:29And that the Metropolitan Police were institutionally racist.
10:34It says the investigation was marred by a combination of professional incompetence
10:38and a failure of leadership by senior officers.
10:41This was such a damaging blow to the Met's reputation.
10:45And crime was escalating at unacceptable levels across London.
10:48But the Met must have felt pressure every single day.
10:53Londoners wanted to see action from the Met in tackling rising crime,
10:58tackling rising violent crime, and particularly crime involving victims from ethnic minorities.
11:05What we've learned is that these people are liars, they are racist, they are violent,
11:10and they have no respect for black people at all.
11:14That's what we've learned.
11:26Do you now accept that there may have been a racial problem in the way the police handled that inquiry?
11:33I accept the possibility that there was, at the very least, unintentional racism within some of the ways that we
11:42operate.
11:47It was after the reports, we restructured murder investigations for London.
11:53And in December 2001, I was appointed the first chief police officer to solely be responsible for overseeing all murder
12:03investigations for London.
12:06It was tough times.
12:08Not only were we called institutionally racists, we were also told we were not very good at our job.
12:15We were good, and we worked hard.
12:17No police officer goes in to work and investigate a murder or any crime wanting to fail.
12:24He started one of the first high-profile race monitoring groups in the country,
12:29and acted as the coordinator of the Stephen Lawrence campaign for six years.
12:34You do get more pressure from some families and some representatives than others.
12:39I knew from the outset that Mr Grover was somebody who would not take no for an answer.
12:46He would expect us to look under every stone and do everything we possibly could.
13:04We decided that we would appoint a senior investigating officer, Norman McKinley and his team.
13:09They undertook inquiries together with local police into the missing person inquiry.
13:15We were on the homicide and serious crime command, so whilst we took mostly murder cases,
13:20we also did take high-risk missing persons investigation that were beyond the sort of limited resources and capabilities of
13:27a local police station.
13:33As part of our investigation, obviously one of the most important things would be to actually force entry into the
13:39house.
13:46There was evidence that people had been living there and eating and drinking, but there were no people there.
13:55There was half unmade breakfast, so there was egg and toast coming out of the toaster, and there were toys
14:02everywhere.
14:06The washing machine was half full, maybe looked like it was being emptied.
14:10It looked like a family had left in a hurry.
14:13It was as if they'd got up and just walked out and left everything on the table.
14:19Then, you know, we go through Nancy's stuff and we find her diary.
14:25And what we discovered, or what Onka told me when we looked at the diary, was she speaks about her
14:32love for the children.
14:37That's the best thing that's happened to them, that she wants the mother there when the children are born.
14:44I think the mother comes when the first child is born, and obviously comes when the second child is born.
14:54Onka started getting worried because his mother's Sikh Bible, the grandson, was still at home.
15:04And she never left anyway without it.
15:07Police and families say there are no obvious problems which could have driven them to leave of their own accord.
15:13To hear nothing is extremely unusual and out of character.
15:17I'm very worried.
15:18I'm concerned about their safety.
15:21Mrs Kerr's prayer book being left behind, especially with her son insisting how important it was to her,
15:28really made the police start to wonder that something more sinister had gone on.
15:35Your detective senses are really starting to be raised now.
15:41It was as if they had just literally vanished in an instant.
15:51It was decided immediately to put it onto HOMES.
15:55HOMES stands for Home Office Large Major Inquiry.
15:58So Operation Walton was started by Norman McKinley and his team.
16:03We had to have an open mind as to what happened.
16:07At the least, they were missing people and could have just gone off as a family on holiday.
16:12But the worst, the worst has befallen them when they've been murdered, whether that be within the family
16:19or by people that knew them or by people that were strangers to them.
16:26Victimology is really important.
16:27You need to know as much about the victim, who they are, how do they live,
16:32where do they work, who do they work with, who do they see, who do they socialise with.
16:37You can pretty much rule out any involvement whatsoever with Nancy Chohan, a young mum,
16:44looking after her two young boys.
16:47Aha.
16:49Dave.
16:51Hello.
16:54And Charanjit Kaur, her mother, who's just recently come over to visit from India.
16:59So it's really focusing on Amarjit Chohan.
17:12Amarjit, he was a businessman.
17:14He owned our import-export company, not far from Heathrow Airport.
17:18Which is a company called Ciba Freight, which is an importation business for fruit and vegetables.
17:26It was technically classed as a bonded warehouse, which meant that they were responsible for
17:31monitoring all of the imports that came into their warehouse.
17:36Apparently, he was a very likeable person, very likeable boss.
17:40Well, it was the life and soul of the party.
17:44One of our initial lines of inquiry progressed around Ciba Freight.
17:49We dived in and had a look at where it was.
17:54We found out it was struggling.
17:57He had difficulty paying his staff over that Christmas in 2002 into 2003.
18:03We then discovered a story that Amarjit Chohan had sold his business and had taken his family back to India.
18:12We also found out the day before there was last contact with him, he had a business meeting near Stonehenge.
18:19Amarjit told his wife that he was going to that meeting.
18:23And in her daily chats with Anka, the brother, off in New Zealand, said that Amarjit's going off to a
18:28meeting
18:29because someone is going to buy into the company.
18:33Amarjit Chohan had on the face of it an idyllic life, but in fact, there was a darker side to
18:38him.
18:38Do it properly, Gardner.
18:41Very nice.
18:43He had been in trouble with the law in the past and may not have been quite as squeaky clean
18:49as you might think.
18:52He was a well-known wheeler dealer.
18:56He ran an import-export business, which gave him access to potential criminality.
19:03He was a chancer.
19:05He was a risk taker.
19:06And sometimes these risks did not pay off.
19:09And he was charged, convicted and imprisoned and put behind bars.
19:17He had been sentenced for four years' imprisonment for tax evasion.
19:27There's a number of different working hypotheses that you have to go on because the family were missing.
19:35Has he got on the wrong side of someone through business?
19:39Could this be some form of marital dispute?
19:44There was Amarjit, mid-40s, father of two young kids, struggling business, criminal past.
19:53And whilst Chohan was one of the missing people, you have to bear in mind that their disappearance may be
20:00ultimately linked to something that he has done.
20:03We have had many cases where mainly the father would murder his partner and the children in the name of
20:11so-called honour killings because they dishonoured them.
20:23Culturally speaking, in the Indian subcontinents, getting in trouble with the law enforcement, ending up in prison tends to be
20:31quite shameful.
20:32For Amarjit, this is something that would have played extensively on his mind, all that shame and humiliation that he's
20:36caused to his family members.
20:39We had to have that open mind as well.
20:41You couldn't close anything off.
20:49When the members of staff at Ciba are telling the inquiry team that Amarjit Chohan has sold his business,
20:57that's obviously a major line of inquiry that we started to pursue and find out what are the details of
21:04this sale.
21:05Who has he sold it to?
21:08We were introduced to a guy called Kenneth Regan, who was purporting to be the new owner of Ciba Freight.
21:19And he was showing us various documents signed by Amarjit Chohan about the sale of the business.
21:25Kenneth Regan was basically telling us that he had facilitated a deal with some Dutch businessmen,
21:33and Amarjit Chohan had sold the business for a substantial amount of cash and Regan.
21:38He had been installed as the new owner.
21:42People were genuinely quite happy for Amarjit.
21:47He'd literally sort of pulled off the deal of a lifetime.
21:50And, you know, they were all pretty much saying to a person, you know, don't worry, look, he hasn't really
21:54gone missing.
21:55He's just done what he has always said he was going to do. He's gone back to India.
22:00But when we get Kenneth Regan's full details and dig into who he is and what he was,
22:07we see that he's got a very checkered pass.
22:14He was a major criminal, someone who had associations with the highest level of criminality in London.
22:24He'd been involved in mass fake passport production and had been involved in the large-scale importation of drugs into
22:33the UK
22:33and had served quite a substantial prison sentence.
22:38He had been sort of known in what he would probably consider his criminal heyday as Captain Cash
22:43and was known to drive around in a Mercedes with wads of cash in the back of the car.
22:49He was arrested after being apprehended with 30 kilos of heroin and large sums of money.
22:56Which is obviously how he financed his lifestyle.
23:00He probably considered himself quite a flash character.
23:04We started to dig deeper and find that actually Regan and Chohan had actually met in prison.
23:16So there was a connection that linked them together.
23:23Prison as an institution tends to serve as a university for criminals.
23:29Often you find inmates' networks, spend time, get to know each other, reminisce about the past, but also talk about
23:35the future.
23:38Amejit had a freight company, something that Regan can relate to because he himself also once upon a time had
23:44a freight company that he used
23:46as a legitimate front in order to bring his drugs in from different parts of the world.
23:52When Regan left prison, he was essentially broke.
23:55He had no money, he had very limited social networks and ties, and this forced him to live with his
24:00dad.
24:03And this would have been somewhat humiliating for Regan as an individual who once upon a time had large sums
24:09of money,
24:10that had a very strong social lifestyle, lived a very particular playboy kind of life.
24:15Now all of a sudden, living with his father.
24:18He needed a job, almost like an honest citizen.
24:22So he reignited his previous friendship from behind bars.
24:28Amejit hires Regan as a driver in his haulage company.
24:33They continue this relationship that started from prison.
24:39Amejit wasn't a hardened criminal.
24:41This is an individual who made a few shortcuts, made a few mistakes, ended up in prison.
24:47And he felt as though that not only did he deserve a second chance, but also those around him, including
24:54Regan.
24:59The whole of the people working at Seba Freight were backing up Regan's plausibility.
25:07Regan had been involved in import-export in a previous life.
25:11He had knowledge of it.
25:12If Amejit Chohan wanted to leave the country in a hurry, why not hand it over to him?
25:20He was certainly somebody who was trusted by Amejit, and somebody who Amejit was trusting to take the business forward.
25:34A couple of weeks had passed now of our investigation, and still really, the only person that was telling us
25:42anything about what had happened to Amejit Chohan was Kenneth Regan.
25:47He was speaking to us and was giving us information.
25:52We were also introduced to a lady called Belinda Bruin, who was a close associate of Kenneth Regan's.
26:02Belinda Bruin was a socialite. She was close friends with Paula Yates, who was once married to Bob Geldof.
26:10I would often keep company with celebrities and high-profile individuals.
26:17Belinda Bruin was a PR executive, and she brought in a real streak of glamour into the shady underworld of
26:26this case.
26:28Kenneth Regan, he'd met Belinda Bruin years before he went to prison in Harvey Nichols in London, when he threw
26:37a lot of money at her at the bar.
26:39And immediately, Regan was infatuated and besotted by Bruin.
26:44He would often treat her with luxurious gifts.
26:48He purchased a Cartier watch for her.
26:51He purchased jewellery for her.
26:54Even though it would be very difficult to comprehend, an individual like Bruin would be linked to a romantic relationship
27:03with an individual like Regan.
27:15Every time someone new came into the investigation, obviously you have to do quite an extensive background investigation.
27:22So Belinda had recently moved from London to a really nice sort of remote farmhouse in Tiverton, in Devon.
27:35She had some horses, two children who were at a private school, so she needed significant income to maintain that
27:44lifestyle.
27:48Because Kenneth Regan had a criminal past, he couldn't be a company director, and as Belinda went on to tell
27:54us, that he'd always really liked her and wanted to help her out.
28:00The point when Regan approaches Belinda Bruin and offers her a position at Ciber Freights, initially he says to her,
28:07there's a starting salary of Β£50,000 and that you can work hours that are based on your needs and
28:13therefore you can be accommodated.
28:14To which she rejected initially, and then he increased the salary to Β£70,000 and said to her, this is
28:21a guaranteed money.
28:23On top of that, you can potentially get bonuses based on performance.
28:27That in itself is an extremely attractive proposition for a person that's financially struggling.
28:34Kenneth Regan explained that he had been installed as the new owner and Belinda Bruin was installed as the company
28:42director, presentable and respectable face of Ciber Freight.
28:46That's the story we were being told.
28:50Of course, Belinda was a key witness.
28:57Quite out of the blue, a letter was received at Ciber Freight, posted from France, signed by Amitri Chohan, saying
29:04that he'd literally sold the business, taken his family off to France and was planning to then move on to
29:09India.
29:11He also wrote a letter to the employees at Ciber Freight, with his home address on the top, saying,
29:17I would first like to explain my actions, which must appear strange.
29:21I've got myself into a major problem and see no way of returning.
29:25I am being chased for Β£3 million.
29:30I have had myself threatened and my family, unless I'd repay a huge amount of money.
29:35I'm totally afraid at this present time to talk to anyone.
29:39He mentions Nancy being desperate to speak to her family, but him preventing her from doing so.
29:46Nancy is driving me crazy, always trying to call her family. It's too dangerous at present.
29:55Obviously, then, detectives undertook the forensic examination of those letters, postmarks, all of that was done.
30:04It was actually his signature on the bottom, so that the people who knew him well, people in the council,
30:10who looked at his signature on a day in, day out basis,
30:13they could see that he'd been signed by him.
30:17When you look at it, purely as a letter, it completely supports what Reagan's been saying all along.
30:26He's saying, I'm abroad, got problems back in the UK, I'm not coming back, and you've got a new boss,
30:31his name's Kenneth Reagan.
30:34I can recall now meeting with Norman McKinley.
30:38Norman McKinley's words were, but I'm not buying it, boss.
30:43I don't buy it.
30:45There's something not right.
30:47At this moment in time, Amarjit Chohan is telling the police that, yes, they have gone away.
30:53They haven't disappeared. The only person at this stage who's saying they've disappeared is Onka Verma.
30:59One thing I couldn't figure out that, how would a family disappear?
31:04How can they just disappear without telling me?
31:11If you're travelling, and you're leaving, why would you leave in a hurry?
31:16That's a suspicious sign, right?
31:20And, okay, so they're on the run, they trust the brother,
31:24why wouldn't they be in contact with the brother and say, look, that this is what I'm thinking of.
31:30And they need their passports.
31:33And Nancy had told Onka that the passports were the home office.
31:38You have to have those passports to travel.
31:44So, yeah, we're thinking, well, how, hold on, how's he, how's he in France?
31:48You know, his passport's in the passport office.
31:51Onka then rang his father, who's still in India.
31:55And, in fact, Mrs. Cor was due back in India, because she's had teachers, she had limited vacation period,
32:02and she'd never arrived, so he became even more suspicious.
32:07We also knew that Onka found his mother's return ticket in India.
32:13If they'd gone to India, then she would have used her return ticket.
32:24Suresh assisted Onka in some depth in being persistent and really pushing for, where are we now?
32:31Regularly saying, look, you're not doing enough.
32:35They're missing what you're doing about it.
32:38Where are they?
32:40The biggest challenge is forcing the authorities to take it seriously.
32:46The contact between the police and the citizen is, you are there to investigate.
32:51I'm not really interested in how they feel.
32:53In my capacity as a director of the monitoring group, when somebody walks in my office,
32:58you go all out, because human life is precious.
33:09Detectives deny any complacency in their investigation,
33:12either in the cert or for suspects in their disappearance.
33:18Now, the Met Police was under microscope, and the media was holding their feet to the flames,
33:23about the way that they tackled the investigation.
33:28We were always going to be under the spotlight.
33:32It felt as if you were getting criticised more than you were being praised.
33:41So I declared the missing person inquiry as a critical incident.
33:48It was making sure that we elevated the position to just show within the organisation and beyond
33:57that every effort's being done to try and trace where the family were.
34:03We asked Interpol to circulate them as missing, particularly focusing on Europe and in India,
34:10to see if we could find where they were.
34:13But nothing was found.
34:19As a missing persons investigation, you're looking for proof of life.
34:22You're actually looking for credit card usage, vehicle usage.
34:27You're looking for anything that shows that that person is alive somewhere at that moment in time.
34:34Now, ostensibly he was on the run, ostensibly he was hiding from other people.
34:40So, maybe, just maybe, he wasn't spending on a credit card.
34:45Possibly doing everything by cash to stay under the radar.
34:51And if he's starting to use his credit card, then, first of all, you know, the credit card's being used.
34:56Yes, it could be stolen. Yes, it could be used by somebody who knows him.
35:00Or it could be used by him.
35:02So then you'd go and get CCTV from the area where the credit card's used
35:05to see if that person using it is Amjit Chohan or anybody else.
35:10So, you are looking for proof of life, even though he's told everybody he's gone away.
35:16In this case, there wasn't any.
35:19Amjit Chohan stopped spending money.
35:38I did go to see my Fritz.
35:41I spoke to a large number of employers.
35:46Look, guys, we think something suspicious is happening.
35:49Do you know anything that you can remember what Amjit was doing that you think is suspicious?
35:59They'd explained that they were being told by people in the company
36:05that Amjit owed some taxes and he was trying to run away for tax evasion.
36:11And I just said to them, why would he take his mother-in-law or his children if it was
36:16tax evasion?
36:19I distinctly remember meeting Kenneth Regan and another friend of his, Peter Rees.
36:26They seemed afraid because the police were involved.
36:31And I remember Regan asked me, what are we going to do?
36:34And I said, we're as determined on this case as we are on the Stephen Lawrence case.
36:40This case isn't going to go away.
36:42It's going to attract national attention.
36:45And I said, we are going to go on television and do a press conference and make this into a
36:48national issue.
36:49And actually, people I could see their faces became anxious and a bit worried.
36:55If anybody has any information about D&C kids, my mom, anybody has seen them, please come forward.
37:05Help, help me to find my family.
37:13We are concerned about the safety of the family.
37:17And we'd ask for anybody with any information regarding the current whereabouts or the disappearance to contact us.
37:24One thing that happened as a result of the press conference,
37:28Kenneth Regan rang the much important police to give more information.
37:43From the outset of the investigation, Kenneth Regan was giving police, effectively, all the information we wanted.
37:50He'd been trusted by Amajid.
37:53He was giving plausible explanations.
37:56He was helping.
37:57He was very helpful.
37:59We've become aware at this point that Regan has got a criminal associate called William Hornsey.
38:05William Hornsey has got quite an extensive background in the production of fake passports for other criminals.
38:15One of Regan's major criminal enterprises and most lucrative was a fake real passport scam that he was running with
38:25Hornsey in the 1990s.
38:28They produced real, genuine passports from the Home Office, but based on false information.
38:34Hornsey was said to pay homeless people 50 quid to get their details.
38:39And such passports were then absolute gold dust for members of the underworld or anybody who wanted to disappear very
38:44quickly.
38:47There comes a point when Regan explains that he is still in regular contact with Amajid.
38:55Regan starts to tell us that Chohan has approached him and Hornsey to see if they can obtain some false
39:03passports for Chohan and his family.
39:06If you want to put this to bed once and for all, I can facilitate a meeting with you, with
39:11Chohan.
39:13We went along with what Kenneth Regan was telling us.
39:18So, the investigation team, to use the police pilot, they plotted up the meeting point in Newport and Wales.
39:31Everyone was hoping that Amajid was going to turn up.
39:35Bear in mind there was still this story going on about he's in trouble, he doesn't want to come back
39:40through the letters.
39:42And our only contact with Amajid was Kenneth Regan.
39:46Do we arrest him? I mean, he was taken to classes once he's missing.
39:52Obviously, the investigation wouldn't have just stopped at Chohan.
39:55We needed to know that not only was Chohan alive and well, but that Nancy, Charanjit Kaur and the two
40:00boys were well.
40:01But at least if we had our hands on Chohan, that was a start.
40:07But the key at that point with no other potential leads was to just get Chohan under our control.
40:20We were having regular meetings with the police.
40:24Every time there was a significant movement in the investigation.
40:29And we knew about the meeting, so I reported back to Ankur.
40:35And I could see, you know, the pin dropping in that meeting.
40:40Because there was a small light in the end of the tunnel that he'll find someone.
40:47And it's quite a big operation. You know, there were several cars of several officers each.
40:53We spent a good day there looking out for them on this story fed to us by Kenneth Regan.
41:03Regan's in telephone contact saying, you know, I'm trying to get hold of Chohan, he's not picking up the phone.
41:11But it didn't occur.
41:13Meeting didn't take place.
41:15Regan and Hornsey didn't turn up.
41:18And Amajit didn't turn up.
41:22Your hopes are dashed.
41:25Why didn't he turn up?
41:27What's happened?
41:28So it takes us no further forward whatsoever.
41:31I think there was a real feeling of, have we been led a sort of bit of a wild goose
41:35chase?
41:36And for what reason?
41:38We hadn't got anywhere with the case really and sort of almost go back to square one.
41:54I was contacted by Dorset police to say that they discovered a body of an unidentified male floating in the
42:02sea off Bournemouth, the well-known coastal resort, with suspicious injuries.
42:10The suspicion was directed to the fact that the body had a sort of gag or binding around the lower
42:16part of the face and a head injury on top of the head.
42:19You don't normally see bodies firmly bound round the lower face with a head injury just simply floating in the
42:28sea.
42:28I was requested to do an autopsy as soon as possible.
42:36Once I came to see the body, it was clear that there was significant decomposition.
42:42The outer layer of the skin was starting to slip.
42:45And so was the hair.
42:47And in fact, the skin of the palms of the hands and the fingers was beginning to slide off.
42:53It's a bit like a glove.
42:56And it's possible for someone to put on a latex, a rubber glove, and then put that over their own
43:02hand.
43:03And then just as with a fingerprint in a living person, you can roll it onto ink and then paper
43:09and produce a fingerprint image.
43:11And that is going to be the main method of identification, because you can go straight from the body and
43:18its fingerprints to a record if there is one, assuming someone has been fingerprinted in the past.
43:24Meanwhile, Kenneth Regan, for days, had been saying he's in contact with Mr Chohan.
43:32Suddenly he's gone.
43:35We don't know where he is.
43:39After a few days, the fingerprint bureau reported, and they said, we have a match.
43:47And it was Amajit Chohan.
43:49Hello.
43:54So you've got this kind of four-way issue that you're looking at.
44:01Kenneth Regan missing.
44:05The body that washed up on Bournemouth Beach had been gagged, tortured.
44:12He'd been murdered.
44:13That was Amajit.
44:15Oncut saying, where's my family?
44:20Where are they?
44:21That's the key.
44:22Where are they?
44:24Had they been murdered as well?
44:28And if they had been murdered at that time, where were they?
44:33Where are the bodies?
44:34By the way.
44:52Let's get south of SΓla silicon.
45:03For seeing none of these sources.
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