LONDON, November 9 2004
PTI
Three greedy businessmen had executed an NRI family of five in a crime
which was "beyond belief", the prosecution has told a court
here.
The NRI businessman Amarjit Chohan, his mother-in-law, wife and two
children, were victims of a plot to hijack a firm and turn it into a
front for drug smuggling, prosecutor Richard Horwell told the Old Bailey
court on Monday.
Chohan was lured into a trap at Stonehenge and held prisoner before
being killed. His family members were then murdered to make it look
as if Chohan had sold his business and gone abroad, he told the court.
Their bodies were buried in Devon, then dumped at sea.
The key figure in the plot, 55-year-old Kenneth Regan, had allegedly
met Chohan at Stonehenge in February last year. The meeting was arranged
by Regan's accomplices Wihliam Horncy and Peter Rees, the prosecutor
said, adding after leaving his office in Southall, Chohan was never
seen again.
Four days later, Regan came to the office of Chohan's CIBA Freight
company brandishing a power of attorney enabling him to run it.
Between those two dates Chohan's wife Nancy, their two children Devinder,
aged nearly 18 months and two month old Ravinder, and her widowed mother
Charanjit Kaur "were sucked into the wickedness," the court
was told.
Regan from Salisbury, Wiltshire, Horncy, 52, from Bournemouth, and
Rees, 39, from Rowlands Castle, Hampshire, have pleaded not guilty to
five charges of murder and a count of false imprisonment.