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01:00Amarjit Chohan's badly decomposed body was discovered near Bournemouth Pier.
01:07There are now concerns for other family members who disappeared with the millionaire businessman.
01:19Amarjit's body washing up on Bournemouth Beach wasn't a case of someone's gone swimming and drowned, swung off a boat
01:27and drowned.
01:27He was gagged. He was murdered.
01:31The vibe around the team was horror and the sadness that we're now looking for the rest of the family.
01:37You know, where are they? Are they being detained somewhere? Or worse, have they been killed?
01:42I immediately authorised aircraft to fly over around that immediate area, see if we can identify any bodies in the
01:51sea.
01:56We had to find that family and we had to do everything we could to try and find them.
02:21My job as a crime scene manager was basically, we were on call for any serious incidents, that's murders, shootings.
02:30We would go out and assess the scenes and deal with it like a murder scene until we were happy
02:35that it was not suspicious.
02:38But certainly this one, the fact that he had tape around his face and was gagged, that really pushes it
02:44straight up to this is a suspicious death.
02:48We've got to try and piece together, you know, what has happened to this man, he's obviously met a very
02:52uncomfortable end.
03:04The body was fully clothed and it often takes quite a while to remove each item of clothing.
03:11A either navy or purple sweatshirt, v-neck, long sleeve, had a certain amount of grit on it.
03:19A pair of blue jeans, heavily contaminated by sand.
03:23I felt each sock as I took it off, it felt squashy like any saturated sock.
03:30And there was a pair of navy boxer shorts.
03:34However, the important thing that was still left was the bindings round the lower face.
03:39It consisted of a mixture of a scarf and brown wide parcel tape that had been wound round and round
03:48the head repeatedly.
03:50There was a very mutilating injury to the top of the head, not just to the scalp but the skull
03:56underneath it.
03:57This was obviously a blunt force injury.
04:03If that had happened during life and we were dealing with a fresh body, you would expect to see bruising
04:10of the scalp.
04:11There was no bruising around that.
04:15He had fracture of the very bottom of the spinal column in his neck.
04:21If it had happened during life, you'd expect to see bruising around the fracture.
04:25There was no bruising around this one.
04:27And I felt that because that's a structure deep inside the body, that's probably a post-mortem fracture.
04:35It's often called the undertaker's fracture.
04:37Because if a body is roughly handled after death, that is where it tends to break.
04:44I finished the autopsy saying this is a highly suspicious death.
05:02The matripartum police said he had died in appalling circumstances.
05:12I could see that Ankur's body was slightly trembling.
05:16Then he regrouped himself and started asking more questions on where that was, how that was found.
05:25We were shocked, totally horrified by what we were being told, and trying to digest that information.
05:34And I think both of us thought, so how do we find Nancy and the other family members?
05:41But my head was going, this is not looking good for us at all.
05:58The day that Amajit's body washed up on Bournemouth Beach was the 10-year anniversary of Stephen Lawrence's murder.
06:09And at my level, we were very conscious of the fact that the eyes of London, the eyes of the
06:13country, the eyes of the world were on the Met Police.
06:15What we did, how we did it, had we moved on.
06:22In fact, Amajit Chohan was an Asian man.
06:26The person had been lying to us all along about him being in touch and missing and got to meet
06:31us and get passports.
06:32He was a white man.
06:37Kenneth Regan was a good liar.
06:40And he gave us this story of the Chohan family going off on holiday.
06:44What's wrong?
06:46Yeah, of course I'm running the business. I'm a partner.
06:50So all the focus was on Kenneth Regan and his associate William Halsey.
06:57And Belinda Bruin was someone who was working on behalf of Regan on a daily basis for Ciba Freight Amajit's
07:04business.
07:04The complete focus now of the investigation was to track down Regan and Halsey.
07:13And at this time, Belinda Bruin was also being sort of quite extensively interviewed because she clearly knew a lot
07:20of the background.
07:22And in a sort of throwaway comment, right at the end of her interview, she happened to sort of mention,
07:27I don't know if this has got anything to do with it, but I did come home, you know, a
07:31week or so ago.
07:32She had been working in London and had gone home to Tiverton in Devon earlier than she'd planned and had
07:39come across Regan Halsey and another man who she knew to be a guy called Peter Rees.
07:48And they'd been digging in the corner of her field.
07:55She had a couple of fields opposite her house where she kept horses.
07:59She was quite angry and said, what are you doing?
08:03And Regan said, look, you know, I told you I'd sort out the drainage in your field for you.
08:07So I've done it as a favour.
08:09That set alarm bells ringing, to say the least.
08:14So we immediately dispatched Detective Sergeant Tony Bishop down to Belinda Bruin's property.
08:23We were told, once you find this ditch, get it dug up.
08:28We get there and Belinda comes zooming up the lane in a massive panic, explaining that she's literally just bumped
08:36into Regan and Halsey at the end of the lane.
08:40They had said to her, look, get in the car, we need to speak to you.
08:46As far as she was concerned, if she'd got in the car with them, that would probably be the end
08:50of her because she's clearly a very loose end as far as they're concerned.
08:55Certainly in terms of all the activity in the field.
09:01The DCI had sort of said to us, right, you know, you two stay down there and basically make sure
09:07Regan and Halsey don't come back.
09:09And if they do come back, then arrest them.
09:13We didn't have any sort of protective equipment.
09:15So we were literally looking around, trying to sort of think, what could we arm ourselves with as potential weapons?
09:21And we were looking at sticks and rocks.
09:25It was a pretty surreal moment in my policing career anyway.
09:30But Regan and Halsey didn't come back.
09:36We found out at two o'clock the next morning, Regan and Halsey booked onto a ferry going across to
09:44Calais.
09:48Why do people skip the country?
09:50Well, they skipped the country because they got something to hide, fear, run away from.
09:55We sent a couple of officers over to France to see if we could physically track where they were going.
10:02Over time, we did find out they'd gone to Spain.
10:09We started working with the authorities, Europol, Interpol, Spanish police.
10:14So if Regan and Halsey had turned up at an airport and tried to book a flight to the Far
10:20East, we would have got them that way.
10:24Regan, Halsey and Peter Rees were our three key suspects in this murder investigation.
10:31Peter Rees, we didn't know where he was.
10:34Norman McKinley, as the SIO, had made a decision of, I want to get Regan and Halsey before Rees.
10:44The police then not just distributed two pictures of their prime suspects, but held them up for the TV cameras.
10:52I am satisfied that these two men are involved.
10:56It was a bold and dramatic move, but it showed just the sense of importance of this number one priority
11:03the Met police had at that time.
11:07I am still hopeful and I am praying to God for my mother, my sister and my two nephews.
11:22There was lots happening both in London and in Devon.
11:28The next step was to excavate in the corner of Belinda's Field.
11:36There was evidence that an area had been recently dug up and refilled.
11:41With forensic officers and exhibits officers, we did do, you know, literally a fingertip forensic search of this trench.
11:49They were looking for anything that would put the Chohans, or could put the Chohans, into a potential gravesite.
11:58Very difficult process. Basically everything has to be dug out and then put through sieves.
12:04I think it had rained for nearly two weeks non-stop down there, so it was like a caugmire.
12:11I don't think any of us really thought that there were going to be any bodies in this field.
12:15You know, it just seemed too incredulous.
12:35Police already knew about Kenneth Reagan's significant criminal past and that he had associates, some of the highest and most
12:44dangerous criminals in London and the south of England.
12:50We then found out that, in the 90s, when he'd been charged with possession with intents of supply heroin, he
12:57had turned Queen's evidence and actually gave information against his co-conspirators.
13:05As a result, given that evidence, he had a reduced sentence from 20 years to eight years.
13:11The names that Reagan handed over to the police in 1998 resulted in a £100 billion cocaine operation being busted
13:19and 15 people being convicted.
13:22One of which, quite astonishingly, was his best mate, William Hornsey, who somehow had forgiven Reagan for landing him behind
13:31bars.
13:31And they were now as thick as thieves in an even closer association.
13:43I got a phone call from one of the officers in the field in Devon.
13:49We haven't found any bodies, but we have found something.
13:55They recovered Indian jewellery, bits of hair, certainly poppers, which looked like they might have come off nappies or children's
14:05clothes.
14:06There was burnt bits of wood and furniture. We weren't sure where that had come from at that stage.
14:12In our minds, we think the family were buried here and Reagan, Hornsey and Rees have then come back and
14:19excavated the bodies.
14:23There was clear indication that bodies have been buried too.
14:29Certainly we believe one body, and that is Mr. Chohan.
14:34It's too early to say whether the other members of the family, that is the two children and the two
14:41female adults who are here.
14:55Reagan, having told us all these stories, he was the focus.
15:01Some people that worked at Ciba were saying that all they could hear Ray's voices whenever Amicic was on the
15:09phone.
15:10Then we heard that he was quite nervous about going to this meeting at Stonehenge about the business.
15:17Subsequently, we found out that meeting was with Reagan and these two Dutch guys.
15:24We believe that he met with Reagan, Hornsey was there and Rees, but Rees was making out he was a
15:30Dutch buyer.
15:30So start to look what's around Stonehenge and we quickly established that Kenneth Regan was living with his father in
15:40Wiltshire, which is not that far away.
15:44Officers had visited Kenneth Regan's father's address on the weekend that we knew that Chohan had gone missing.
15:53Kenneth Regan had told his father that he was packing him off for the weekend.
15:58The father, when he spoke to us, said that when he came home, he had new carpets and a new
16:03sofa in the house.
16:10You go in there thinking this is possibly a major crime scene.
16:16And when you walk in the front door and you smell fresh paint, that definitely makes you think, has there
16:22been a cover up?
16:24There was a new carpet. You could see where maybe an old carpet had been and certainly some new wallpaper
16:30had been put up.
16:33There seemed to be some bits of furniture missing, which may account for some of the bits of wood burnt
16:38down in Devon.
16:41To me, this is covering up something that's happened in this house.
16:47So we called Claire Austin from the Forensic Science Service to come out and we use luminol, which is a
16:53chemical which we spray around and then we leave it for a few days and then we go back and
16:58we can see where possibly blood has been cleaned up.
17:03The problem is luminol reacts with peroxide and they'd use bleach to clean up.
17:11We found sort of 20 areas which possibly was blood and they were swabbed and sent off for analysis.
17:19But it all came back negative.
17:23After spending several days examining inside a forge close, we looked around the outside of the house to see if
17:29there was anything out there.
17:30And approximately four feet in height from the ground on the outside wall of the house, we found a small
17:37blood stain that looked like it had come from above in a downward trajectory.
17:44And that was then sent for DNA analysis and found to match one of the Chohan males of the family.
17:56We started to realize that potentially all five of the Chohan family had been murdered.
18:06Kenneth Reagan was actually very, very canny.
18:10He covered his tracks very well initially and he wrote letters, he told people he'd been speaking to Amajit and
18:17Amajit was running away.
18:20When Chohan's belongings were recovered in a suitcase sometime later on, there were 23 blank piece of papers signed by
18:28Amajit Chohan.
18:32Some of the documents that we recovered were printed on Reese's home computer or on his word processor, we managed
18:39to match the paper up.
18:42I can only imagine that Amajit Chohan signed those pieces of paper under duress.
18:48So they're either torturing him or his family being tortured in front of him.
19:13The police had been given information that Peter Rees was in hiding in a bed and breakfast at a forest
19:22of Dean.
19:24He'd watched this press conference and said something spontaneous like, I know this case.
19:33And he told the owner of the bed and breakfast and she got really worried and frightened and she rang
19:38the Metropolitan Police to give more information.
19:41I think he was cornered.
19:44He didn't know me from Adam.
19:46He just started saying, have I seen him on TV?
19:51And I said, no, should I have done?
19:53And he just said that he was involved with an Asian family that had disappeared.
19:59They could put me at the scene, but I didn't kill anybody.
20:03He was going, I can't pin that on me.
20:05And I say to him, you know, what is going on?
20:08He just said that Regan was crazy.
20:12It was Regan, he's a psycho.
20:15I knew what I had to do.
20:20It wasn't that long before Peter Rees was found by a police team from the Met just drinking in a
20:26pub.
20:27When he was arrested, he knew his time was up and came quietly.
20:34Rees was charged and interviewed by police and predictably said not a single word.
20:42He was someone, I think, overawed by the fact that he was dealing with such superior league criminals.
21:10Months after the body of Armageddon Chohan came up at Bournemouth Pier, a body came up in a fishing trawler
21:17just off the coast at Dorset.
21:20They found the body.
21:22It had been tightly wrapped in tarpaulin, arousing some suspicion.
21:27The body had been in the water for some time in quite a dilapidated state.
21:32We had a special post-mortem and samples were taken.
21:37And it came back that it was Nancy Chohan.
21:48It was a moment knowing that she was dead.
21:52She had a head injury.
21:54It was quite obvious that she'd recently given birth.
21:58She was just postnatal.
22:00It's so sad.
22:03I don't know how anyone could do that to someone.
22:17It's only when we are told what happened, it becomes even more horrifying because you realise that you're not going
22:25to find them.
22:27Anka is just breaking.
22:32The funeral director actually rang and said, I understand that you want to see the body.
22:37Can you tell you that it's battered?
22:39Because Nancy had received a hammer blow on her head.
22:44And I said, look, I need to talk to Anka. I don't need to see it, but Anka is insisting
22:48on it.
22:48And I actually went to the funeral director with Anka.
22:51And Jean, the funeral director, actually tried to be as sensitive as possible.
22:57What she'd done was clothe the coffin and put a scarf around the skull.
23:03But actually had a massive image of Nancy in her beautiful sari.
23:09For me, it was not a skeleton. For me, it was my baby sister.
23:16For me, she was still alive and I was talking to her.
23:25And that was it.
23:29A tearful goodbye. That's what I said.
23:47Then we heard from the Metropolitan Police that the mother had been found.
23:56Mrs. Cor's skull was found on Alham Bay Beach on the Isle of Wight.
24:03Some children playing football came across a skull.
24:10Anka is a man who has lost everything in a period of months.
24:18There is still, I think, in Anka's head, you'll find the children.
24:22It's not common sense. It's irrational.
24:27When Nancy Chauhan was dredged up by a trawler,
24:30the trawler men did see a package fall, or something fall from her body.
24:38We can only assume that they were the children.
24:44Speaking to sort of marine experts, they said that children, you know,
24:47bodies that size would just never resurface.
24:54I don't think we'd believe before that day
24:57that anyone would be capable of murdering three generations of one family.
25:01Two baby boys, a mum, a dad and a grandmother.
25:04I didn't think anything like that was possible.
25:07We've seen some horrific cases in our time.
25:09But at this time, it was the realization that the family were all dead.
25:14It was shocking.
25:20By now, the investigation had become a huge, widespread investigation.
25:26You know, you've got crime scenes in London,
25:28potentially crime scenes in Stonehenge,
25:30the crime scene where Chauhan has been held as a prisoner.
25:36For Linda Bruin, I think she literally only had one or two neighbours.
25:40But the neighbour did also recount to us what Linda had said about
25:43Kenneth Regan, William Hornsey and Peter Rees digging in the field.
25:48A neighbour had seen them with a white transit van,
25:51that they had tried to sort of block the view into the field.
25:56So we started looking at Regan, Hornsey and Rees as to any vans,
26:02any cars they've hired, have they hired any diggers?
26:06We established that Regan had hired a white transit van,
26:11using his own driving licence, paying by his own credit card,
26:14making no attempts to sort of cover their tracks.
26:18The guy who ran the van hire company, you know,
26:21actually remarked that when they returned the van,
26:24there was just this awful smell.
26:28But the inside of the van had been pressure washed,
26:30which according to the van hire guy,
26:32is unheard of, no pressure washes the van.
26:35And Regan sort of explained that they'd been moving some dead livestock.
26:39Well, it was clear that that van had obviously been used for something by Regan.
26:43Clearly he hadn't been moving livestock.
26:45So the van was immediately seized and brought in for forensic examination.
26:54Regan, Hornsey and Rees seem to be very forensically aware.
26:58Their actions of redecorating forged close and cleaning the back of the van
27:03suggest that they were aware of their actions and trying to get rid of any evidence.
27:08I think someone would expect if they pressure washed an area
27:12to have got rid of all the evidence that could be there,
27:14but blood will go in places you wouldn't expect it to go.
27:19We went over it literally, millimetre by millimetre, looking for blood,
27:24looking for blood in crevices or gaps or areas that might have escaped.
27:30We did find blood inside the van that looked like it had been as a result of an impact,
27:35and that blood was sent away for DNA analysis.
27:39And that blood matched that of Amarjit Chohan.
27:45We were making huge, extensive CCTV inquiries.
27:52We were able to track your transit van going into a service station,
27:56down to the coast,
27:58and we found that Regan had bought a boat.
28:06The boat was brought into the lab, and it was stored in one of our forensic garages,
28:10and me and some assistants examined the boat.
28:14We spent several days going over it, doing a fingertip search of it.
28:18We think that they were transported in the open part of the back of the boat.
28:24And when we lifted up one of the mats, we found some hair.
28:29The hair looked like it had just fallen off the head, so it was obviously off someone who had been
28:33dead.
28:34And whether they had a head trauma or something, it was sort of black, very black hair.
28:41Finding something like the hair on the boat was a little bit of a breakthrough.
28:45I remember we phoned the police officer in charge and gave him the news that we'd found this hair,
28:50and rushed it through for forensic analysis to see if we could get any DNA from it.
28:56We got a partial profile of DNA.
28:58It indicated the hair had possibly come from an Asian male,
29:02that we believed to have originated from Mamajit Chohan.
29:07That was an indication that the bodies had come out of the pit in Devon,
29:11put into a speedboat, and taken out to the sea.
29:18We subsequently realised, looking at all the timeline, that was when Regan was becoming spooked by the police investigation,
29:26and probably felt that they could just lead us a bit of a merry dance,
29:30with the story about meeting Chohan in Newport.
29:35That's when they went back to Devon, exhumed the bodies from their makeshift grave, put them in this transit van,
29:43then put them on the boat and went out to sea.
29:47There was a local police marine unit coming into Harbour as they were going out.
29:51They sort of pulled up alongside to say, look, some pretty choppy conditions out there,
29:56you know, you guys know what you're doing.
29:58Regan and Hornsey were sort of, yeah, thank you very much, yeah, we know what we're doing, we're fine.
30:03So off they went, you know, and we know now that once they got out to sea,
30:08all the bodies were dumped into the channel.
30:17The thing with Regan is, it seemed that crime had moved on since he was last sort of in prison.
30:25And he just didn't seem aware of any phone cell site evidence that we could use.
30:34Sophisticated criminals tend to use sort of burner phones that they use for a very short period of time
30:39and then they discard, but throughout this entire crime,
30:42Kenneth Regan, William Hornsey and Peter Rees each kept the same mobile phone.
30:49Now everybody knows about phones being tracked.
30:52But in 2003, you've got to remember this was cutting edge technology
30:56and not many people actually comprehended or understood it.
31:01You could not pinpoint, but you could find a location of where a phone had been and when it was
31:06last used.
31:07There was an awful lot of telephone evidence showing Regan, Hornsey and Rees
31:12moving around the country at the times to the sites where we know the bodies were buried originally
31:18and also when they moved them down to the south coast.
31:27We started to look and see where Amadjit Chohan's phone had gone, you know, around the time of the alleged
31:33sale of the business.
31:34And it's quite clear that Chohan's mobile phone is mirroring Kenneth Regan's mobile phone.
31:42Chohan would have realised at some point he'd been duped, was clearly then taken down to Regan's dad's house down
31:50in Wiltshire,
31:51where he was held prisoner and tortured.
31:55He'd made to sign a number of sheets of paper that were subsequently used by Regan to be made into
32:02letters of power of attorney
32:04so that they could be presented to the CBER employees and obviously any authorities that came sort of asking.
32:13I think he probably really felt or bomb proof that he'd covered their tracks.
32:20Then once Chohan was either being held prisoner or had already been murdered, Regan and Hornsey then had to deal
32:27with the rest of the family.
32:29They couldn't leave that avenue open.
32:33We'll never know what exactly took place in that house, but quite clearly Regan and Hornsey murdered Nancy Chohan,
32:42murdered Charanjit Kaur and most chilling of all, murdered those two young boys, one who was eight weeks old.
32:50Kenneth Regan was a fairly major criminal and had been involved in the large scale importation of drugs,
32:59but it's beyond belief that they went to those lengths just for the pure greed of taking over this warehouse
33:07so they could use that as a front for importing drugs again.
33:17Regan and Hornsey, they jumped on a ferry, went off to France, we know that.
33:22They're both wanted for multiple murders, they've both got sort of extensive criminal connections,
33:28certainly with the ability to make false documentation, passports, etc.
33:35We were able to see through cell site analysis where Regan's phone was, where Hornsey's phone was.
33:42They were actually in Belgium.
33:48So officers were dispatched and they worked with the northern part of the Belgium authorities and we identified where Regan
33:56was.
33:59He was tracked down to a campsite and was pretty robustly taken into custody.
34:06He was adamant he wasn't coming back voluntarily.
34:10But it was upheld by the High Court in Brussels and we were given 15 days to extradite him basically.
34:22Meanwhile, Hornsey was elsewhere in Belgium, in the southern part, and we asked the northern authorities to contact their counterparts
34:30in the southern part.
34:31But one lot were Flemish and one lot were French and they didn't really talk to each other.
34:35So we missed the opportunity of arresting Hornsey in Belgium.
34:42Hornsey was just on his own and didn't seem to have the same sort of contacts and connections and finances
34:48that Regan had had.
34:52One Friday afternoon, we got a phone call from a solicitor for Hornsey saying,
34:57Look, he's had enough. He's getting on the ferry at Calais.
35:01Two or three of us immediately sort of jumped into the car and shot down to Dover.
35:06Literally got there just as he was coming off the ferry.
35:10I arrested him for murder.
35:14And he was brought back to a London police station, subsequently interviewed and ultimately charged.
35:21Both Regan and Hornsey were interviewed by police and predictably declined to give any evidence whatsoever.
35:29They never, ever, ever gave an account of what they did.
35:34And that for me spoke volumes by itself.
35:47Murder cases at the Elbele are very big stories.
35:51And a family wiped out entirely is a massive story.
35:58It's going to be front page material.
36:01And what's more, it's going to run for a long, long time.
36:06Anker was wrought with worry whether we'll get the conviction.
36:12There's no admission.
36:14There's no eyewitness accounts apart from circumstantial evidence of where they are.
36:18Nobody's seen the killings taking place.
36:22Any jury trial has unpredictable, uncertain quality to it.
36:27It was by no means a foregone conclusion that this would end with guilty verdicts.
36:34The prosecutor took over a day to outline all the evidence against each of the defendants, producing what he described
36:41as a compelling case of their guilt.
36:44As he described it, even though they got what they wanted, the documents signed, that they took the decision.
36:50Even Amajid and his family all had to die.
36:54They then went off and buried them a week later in some remote part of the country, hoping the police
37:00would never discover the bodies.
37:03This gang, utterly ruthless, utterly immoral, and utterly intent on getting away with their crimes, was not just the horror
37:13of what the prosecutor was describing.
37:15It was the moment when he produced, I think, his trump card.
37:19There's almost a universal lean forward and scribbling started, even more furiously.
37:34Claire Austin from the Forensic Science Service rang me and we just went through all the exhibits before the trial.
37:41There was a pair of pants and a pair of socks, which belonged to Amajid Chohan, which she had on
37:47when he came out of the water.
37:50You don't get much evidence from socks or pants normally, you know, unless it's some sort of sexual thing going
37:55on.
37:55But Claire was very thorough and she said, well, send them up to me.
38:01We took it out of the bag to see if we could find anything externally, whether maybe someone had been
38:07wearing it without their shoes on.
38:08There might be some DNA evidence on the sole of the sock.
38:12I think it was about four days later, she rang me back and said, oh, you're never going to believe
38:17this.
38:19There was a piece of paper that was folded up inside the sock.
38:23I remember the realisation that this could change the whole case.
38:30The letter was a letter from the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society addressed to Regan and Mr. Avery, his father,
38:39in relation to a mortgage for Forge Close where they lived.
38:45Which means that Amajid Chohan had been in Forge Close when he put it into his sock.
38:53So it was a piece of evidence which absolutely categorically put Chohan in that house at the time that he
39:01was murdered.
39:04It seemed Chohan had probably realised he was going to fall foul of these men and perhaps when he was
39:10left unattended for a moment, must have seen that letter on the side and just thought, if anyone finds me,
39:15I'm going to give them a clue.
39:19In headline terms, there's nothing more exciting than evidence arriving almost from beyond the grave.
39:34Each defendant had a team of their own, which meant that every witness was subjected to one of the defence
39:41teams individually consecutively questioning them.
39:46I had no idea that they were going to go with the angle that the letter that was found in
39:51Amajid's sock had been planted there by myself or one of the other police officers in the case.
39:58It's vital when collecting evidence in a case like this to have a chain of custody between the people transporting
40:06it to the evidence store, the evidence store to the laboratory, the laboratory to the court.
40:11So every person that handles it has to sign the label. So there's a complete chain of evidence. So that
40:17was done with everything.
40:19Continuity of evidence just proves an item's not been tampered with, for example. It can't have been planted because the
40:25pathologist put it into the brown paper bag and I was the person to open it.
40:33The police, when they retrieved the body from the sea in Bournemouth, gave the defence the opportunity to say how
40:40could possibly a letter survive having been in the sea for two months, let alone been underground for several weeks.
40:46It did plant confusion in the minds of the jury.
40:51The letter survived because it's been folded up so many times like into the size of a stamp.
40:58And because it's, you know, postage size and it's really squashed together, the sea water hasn't got into the paper.
41:19I did worry about jury fatigue.
41:23The sheer amount of evidence that the jury had to sit through.
41:26You're sitting there thinking, I really don't know how this is going to turn out.
41:32We started getting worried because normally, if somebody's going to be found guilty, it comes up very quickly.
41:39You were sitting there, almost like an expectant mother, wondering what the result is going to be.
41:47I knew that they were guilty. I knew that there was no reason to doubt anything else.
41:51But the jury have to consider everything very carefully.
42:06This was a quintuple murder case, record breaking in terms of length and amount of evidence that's produced.
42:12It was unbelievably tense.
42:15This was a big, big moment.
42:18They come back and the foreman of the jury stands up and when he gets asked,
42:23do you find the defendants guilty or not guilty?
42:26His foreman says, guilty.
42:36It was almost like a release of pressure.
42:40Yes, we got it through. We've managed it.
42:52It was a total sense of relief.
42:55We were happy that people were found guilty and justice had been done.
43:00It's unfortunate that Onkar cannot be here and express his concerns with you.
43:06He believes the death of his nephew's very young children could only be influenced by hatred and contempt by the
43:14killers.
43:16Of course.
43:43The second one is the consequence of a horrible attempt by the hurt.
43:49the judge told the two men your crimes are uniquely terrible the cold-blooded murder
43:56of an eight-week-old baby and an 18-month-old toddler not to mention the murders of their
44:03mother father and grandmother provide a chilling insight into the utterly perverted standards
44:11by which you have lived your lives your characters are as despicable as your crimes each of you is a
44:20practice resourceful and manipulative liar for these crimes you two highly dangerous men
44:27must now pay the heaviest sentence they had no prospect of release
44:37that is absolutely what should have happened to them for what they did
44:40how they did it lack of remorse lack of explanation it was absolutely the right sentence
44:51i've dealt with a huge number of cases i've met families in enormous tragic circumstances
44:57but i think onkar is one of the most bravest men that i've ever met in my life he's brave
45:03not just
45:04because of the enormity of the tragedy that he's had to deal with he's throughout the whole process
45:10yes he cried but he kept his composure and his dignity and his calmness throughout the process i don't
45:17know how he did it and i just wish that we could go back and get his family back
45:31so
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