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Murdered or Missing? - Season 1 Episode 1
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01:12It's so unbelievably macabre.
01:16It's 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. At 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
01:51in India and France.
01:52He 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. Clearly, 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. Thousands of police officers, both here and abroad, have been involved.
02:25And the mystery surrounding the family's disappearance continues.
02:29The Chohan case is chilling, savage, and shocking. And 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 a hold of Nancy, I was trying to get a hold of mom and
03:38Neil, nobody was here.
03:43So, you know, I thought something's not right.
03:49Monk 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 Amajit Chohan, his young wife Nancy.
04:18They had two young boys, Devinder and Ravinder.
04:21And 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 and 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 up and 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 untoward.
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.
05:29And 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 Onka Verma.
06:37He 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 Amajit and the mother and the two kids.
06:54He showed me Amajit's photograph with Nancy Amajit'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.
07:23It's one of the moments that you register because it is, it's, it's, it's, it's canny.
07:31Onka and Nancy were very, very, very close to each other.
07:35They spoke on a daily basis.
07:36They'd been married on the same day.
07:39He'd gone off to New Zealand with his wife and she'd come to England.
07:45Nancy started working for Amajit 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.
08:05Onka said to me that he had spoken to his sister on a telephone on Valentine's Day, 2003.
08:16He then rang her the next day.
08:21But nobody answered the phone and everything went bad.
08:24They kept on trying for another week.
08:28Onka believed something was suspicious.
08:31Then he rang Hanslow 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 travelled all this way and 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 their loved ones either murdered or were missing.
09:53Police formed a cordon around the demonstrators, but couldn't stop the violence.
10:03Police 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 and 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. That'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 and in December 2001 I was appointed the first
11:58chief police officer
12:00to solely be responsible for overseeing all murder investigations for London.
12:06It was tough times.
12:08It was tough times. Not only were we called institutionally racist, we were also told we were not very good
12:14at our job.
12:15We were good and we worked hard. No police officer goes in to work and investigate a murder or any
12:21crime wanting to fail.
12:24He started one of the first high-profile race monitoring groups in the country
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.
13:18So whilst we took mostly murder cases, we also did take high-risk missing persons investigation
13:23that were beyond the sort of limited resources and capabilities of a 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.
13:51But there were no people there.
13:55There was half unmade breakfast. So there was egg and toast coming out of the toaster.
14:01And there were toys everywhere.
14:06The washing machine was half full. Maybe it looked like it was being empty.
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,
14:30she speaks about her love 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 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. I'm very worried. I'm concerned about the safety.
15:21Mrs Kerr's prayer book being left behind, especially with her son insisting how important it was to her,
15:29really made the police start to wonder 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 Walden 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.
16:13But the worst, the worst has befallen them and 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. You need to know as much about the victim.
16:29You need to know who they are, how do they live, where do they work, who do they work with,
16:34who do they see, who do they socialise with.
16:38You can pretty much rule out any involvement whatsoever with Nancy Chohan, a young mum, looking after her two young
16:45boys.
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, he owned an import-export company, not far from Heathrow Airport.
17:18Which is a company called Ciber Freight, which is an importation business for fruit and vegetables.
17:25It was technically classed as a bonded warehouse, which meant that they were responsible for monitoring all of the imports
17:32that came into their warehouse.
17:36Apparently he was a very likeable person, very likeable boss, almost the life and soul of the party.
17:44One of our initial lines of inquiry progressed around Ciber Freight.
17:49We dived in and had a look at where it was, we 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,
18:16he had a business meeting near Stonehenge.
18:19Amarjit told his wife that he was going to that meeting.
18:23And in a daily chat with Onka the brother off in New Zealand,
18:27said that Amarjit's going off to a meeting because 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.
18:39Do 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, he was a risk-taker, and 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.
19:36Has 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.
20:31For Amarjit, this is something that would have played extensively on his mind, or that shame and humiliation that he's
20:36caused to his family members.
20:38We had to have that open mind as well. You couldn't close anything off.
20:49When the members of staff at SEBA 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, who's he sold it to.
21:08We were introduced to a guy called Kenneth Regan,
21:14who was purporting to be the new owner of SEBA 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.
21:46He'd literally sort of pulled off the deal of a lifetime,
21:49and, you know, they were all pretty much saying to a person, you know, don't worry.
21:53Look, he hasn't really gone missing. He's just done what he always said he was going to do.
21:57He'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 past.
22:13He 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,
22:27and had been involved in the large-scale importation of drugs into the 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,
22:42as Captain Cash, and was known to drive around in a Mercedes with wads of cash in the back of
22:48the car.
22:49He was arrested after being apprehended with 30 kilos of heroin and large sums of money.
22:57Which 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 Chauhan had actually met in prison.
23:17So 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,
23:35but also talk about the future.
23:38Amajib had a freight company, something that Regan can relate to,
23:42because he himself also once upon a time had a 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.
23:54He had no money, he had very limited social networks and ties,
23:59and this forced him to live with his dad.
24:03And this would have been somewhat humiliating for Regan as an individual who once upon a time
24:07had large sums of money, that had a very strong social lifestyle,
24:12lived a very particular playboy kind of life, now 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.
24:29Amajib hires Regan as a driver in his haulage company.
24:33They continue this relationship that started from prison.
24:39Amajib wasn't a hardened criminal, this is an individual who made a few shortcuts,
24:45made a few mistakes, ended up in prison.
24:47And he felt as though that not only did he deserve a second chance,
24:52but also those around him, including Regan.
24:59The whole of the people working at Siba 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.
25:13If Amajib Chohan wanted to leave the country in a hurry, why not hand it over to him?
25:21He was certainly somebody who was trusted by Amajib, and somebody who Amajib was trusting to take the business forward.
25:34A couple of weeks had passed now of our investigation, and still really,
25:39the only person that was telling us anything about what had happened to Amajib Chohan was Kenneth Regan.
25:48He 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.
26:04She was close friends with Paula Yates, who was once married to Bob Geldof.
26:10And 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.
26:40And 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 that an individual like Bruin would be linked to a romantic
27:03relationship with 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.
27:52And as Belinda went on to tell us that he'd always really liked her and wanted to help her out.
28:00There's a point when Regan approaches Belinda Bruin and offers her a position at Ciber Freights.
28:06Initially, he says to her, there's a starting salary of Ā£50,000 and that you can work hours that are
28:11based on your needs and therefore you can be accommodated.
28:15To which she rejected initially.
28:16And then he increased the salary to Ā£70,000 and said to her, this is a guaranteed money.
28:23On top of that, you can potentially get bonuses based on performance.
28:26That 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
28:43director, 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 I
29:17would first like to explain my actions, which must appear strange.
29:22I've got myself into a major problem and see no way of returning. I am being chased for Ā£3 million.
29:30I have had myself threatened and my family unless I 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.
30:05It 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, they could see that he'd been signed by
30:15him.
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. I 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.
31:44So, yeah, we're thinking, well, hold on, how's he in France? You know, his passport's in the passport office.
31:51Anka then rang his father, who was still in India. And, in fact, Mrs. Corr was due back in India,
31:59because she was headteacher, she had limited vacation period, and she'd never arrived.
32:04So, he became even more suspicious.
32:07We also knew that Anka 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 Anka 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. Where are they?
32:40The biggest challenge is forcing the authorities to take it seriously.
32:46The contract 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 a 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.
34:28You'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 been 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.
35:42I spoke to a large number of employees.
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 that Amjit owed some taxes,
36:09and he was trying to run away for tax evasion.
36:12And 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.
36:56If anybody has any information about Nancy, kids, my mom, anybody has seen them, please come forward, help me to
37:08find my family.
37:13We are concerned about the safety of the family and we'd ask for any information regarding the current
37:20whereabouts or the disappearance to contact us.
37:24One thing that happened as a result of the press conference, Kenneth Regan rang the Madspotten police to give more
37:32information.
37:43From the outset of the investigation, Kenneth Regan was giving police, effectively, all the information we wanted.
37:51He'd been trusted by Amadjid.
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.
38:06William 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 be paying 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 Amadjid.
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.
39:12We went along with what Kenneth Regan was telling us.
39:18So the investigation team, to use the police parlay, they plotted up the meeting point in Newport and Wales.
39:32Everyone was hoping that Amadjid 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.
39:41And our only contact with Amadjid 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.
40:36And 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.
40:54We 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. Meeting didn't take place.
41:15Regan and Hornsey didn't turn up.
41:18And Amagic 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 Choham.
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 Amadjit Choham.
43:49Hello.
43:55So you've got this kind of four-way issue that you're looking at.
44:04The body that washed up on Bournemouth Beach had been gagged, tortured, had been murdered.
44:13That was Amadjit.
44:15Oncut, saying, where's my family?
44:19Where 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?
44:54And if they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had
44:55been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had
44:56been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had
44:56been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had
44:56been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had
44:56been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had
44:56been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had been murdered, they had
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