(graphics banging) - [Nancy] Dev, hello. (Nancy cooing) - [Narrator] 18-month-old, Devinder, and his baby brother, Ravinder, were the sons of successful
businessman, Anil Chohan. - [Nancy] Hello. (laughs) - [Narrator] With a loving
marriage to his wife, Nancy, Anil had everything a man could want. - Joy in a cup. (Charanjit laughs) - [Narrator] But in February 2003, just two days after this film was shot, all five members of this happy
family simply disappeared. (gentle music) - [Reporter] Vanished without a trace. - [Reporter] Three
generations of one family. - [Reporter] The Chohans
are now at the center of a major police hunt. - [Reporter] Why would anybody
want to simply walk away and leave it all behind? - [Narrator] This is the story of a man who made an
entire family disappear. - [Reporter] Detectives
later found evidence of the macabre journey. - [Reporter] Two members of an underworld. - [Narrator] The story of
an extraordinary deception by a ruthless criminal who
wanted to get rich at any cost. - [Belinda] He had absolutely no moral conscience whatsoever. - [Narrator] A man who almost succeeded in outwitting the police by committing a crime
so unique and horrific no one dared to believe
it had taken place. - [Reporter] The prosecution
had described the crimes as "beyond belief." (brakes squealing) (doors banging) (suspenseful music) (forklift rumbling) - [Narrator] In 2003,
businessman, Anil Chohan, was the owner of a successful
fruit importation firm based at Heathrow, called CIBA Freight. With a wife and two children, Chohan was known to his staff
as a contented family man and an easy-going boss. - Anil's way of running
the company was a relaxed, sort of happy-go-lucky attitude. (people chatting) - We all mucked in, whenever it was busy, he'd
get pizzas, get drinks. It was almost like one big happy family. - [Narrator] But owning a freight company had made Anil Chohan a target. (door rattling) (suspenseful music) In January 2003, a recently released convict
arrived at CIBA Freight looking for work. His name was Kenneth Regan. - [Anil] You must be Ken. - That's me. You're Mr. Chohan, right? - Yeah. - [Narrator] Anil Chohan had spent time in prison for tax evasion and was sympathetic to the ex-con, who said he wanted to go straight. - Anil was a very fair person. He'd always give people
not a second chance, but a 10th chance. He'd been in prison himself and obviously he'd had a second chance. So why shouldn't anybody else? Ken came on as a driver, not frightened of getting his hands dirty and as a worker, I thought he was good. - [Narrator] But Kenneth Regan was no ordinary delivery driver. (suspenseful music) Five years earlier, Regan had been a successful drug smuggler, known to his friends as Captain Cash. - In the late nineties, Ken
Regan was a career criminal. Regan set up freight companies
in around the Heathrow area. And he'd used those as a front to bring drugs into the country. He knew most of the
major criminals in London and criminal families, and he was very much living the high life. - [Narrator] It was in
a fashionable London bar that Regan first met celebrity agent and socialite Belinda Brewin. - He was a bit rough, I think. Not, it's, not well-educated,
quite charming, dressed well, nice watch,
spent a lot of money. He was kind of like a rich wide boy. (upbeat suspenseful music) (door slams) Regan's nickname was Captain Cash. He always had a lot of money and I mean, high denomination notes. He had a briefcase and
I've seen that twice and it was just full of money. And I think he thought it bought him class when he had none whatsoever. (gentle music) - [Narrator] Belinda would
eventually be drawn unwittingly into Reagan's world of crime and deceit. It started when the gangster
became obsessed with her. - He used to phone me quite
a lot and email saying, "I've never, I haven't
felt like this in 30 years. You're like a drug. I can't." I mean, just bizarre, considering that he didn't
really know me at all. And then one day a friend
of mine said to me, "Why on Earth are you going
out with someone like Regan?" And I said to him, "I'm not." And he said, "Well, he told me
that you're his girlfriend." And I said, "You've got to be kidding." And he said, "No, I'm not." Which I found slightly worrying. And then literally I
think a few days later he got arrested. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] June 17th, 1998. Regan was caught with
25 kilograms of heroin. Facing 18 years in prison,
he decided to become a grass. Regan's testimony helped
convict 12 major criminals, while his own sentence was reduced. By the time he was released
from prison four years later, Captain Cash had few
friends and little money. - When Regan was released
from his prison sentence, he'd very much gone
back to having nothing. All his assets had been stripped from him as part of the confiscation order. And here he was, back
living in one bedroom of a very small bungalow with his father. Regan, I think very
much wanted to get back in the driving seat as a drug importer. Mr. Chohan's business was,
was the perfect framework to hang his drug dealing activities on. (door rattling) - [Narrator] Regan came up with a plan to steal Anil Chohan's company. A plan so ruthless that
no one would realize it had taken place. He began by setting a trap. Soon after starting work at CIBA, Regan approached Chohan and
said he knew some investors who wanted to buy the company. The bait was a cash offer
of 3 million pounds, a large enough sum to
tempt the businessman whose wife Nancy wanted him to retire. - I've got investors. - I, I knew that Nancy
wanted to go back to India. She, she'd made it clear.
She, she missed India. And we talked about it a couple of times because he did say that the
level of education in India was higher than the UK and Nancy, she was
desperate to go back there. - [Narrator] While Chohan
considered his offer, Regan began working on the
next phase of his plan. (suspenseful music) CIBA Freight was not the only
thing he wanted to acquire. (suspenseful music) By this time, Belinda Brewin
had given up her house in Chelsea for a new life in Devon. (dog barks) Regan's obsessive calls
and letters had stopped during his four years
in prison, but now free, he began to pursue Belinda once more. - A few weeks after he got out of prison he left me a few messages on my mobile. He said that he had a business deal he wished to discuss with me. And at the time I had this
huge house, a huge mortgage and two kids at private
school and I'd given up my job and then my boyfriend left me. So I was, it was a, how can I put it? Yes, so I rang him. - [Narrator] Regan told
Belinda he was planning to take over CIBA Freight and needed a new managing director. Although she had no relevant experience, Regan offered her a huge
salary for a two-day week. - At first, he offered me 54,000 pounds, which is a lot of money. But I thought, you know, I've got two kids at private
school and a huge mortgage, that's not gonna cover everything. And so he said, "Fine,
I'll pay you 72,000." And I thought, well, that's great. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] The job
offer gave Regan an excuse to visit Belinda at her
isolated Devon home. - He'd come up with bizarre reasons that he'd want me to
sign a letter or a form or he'd want me to help
him fill in a form. And he drive all the way
from Salisbury or from London to my house for 20 minutes. - [Narrator] Regan seemed
to become strangely fixated on the land around Belinda's farm. - He used to moan about the
mud a lot, the mud in the lane. You know, I couldn't live
here. It's so disgusting. He wanted to cut down some of the trees and built a nice wall and electric gates. I mean, this was an old farm house, not a footballers pad in Essex. He kept saying, "I could
make this place really, really nice for you. What you need is a drainage ditch." (suspenseful music) (gentle music) - [Narrator] By February,
Chohan had made up his mind. He would meet the investors that Regan said wanted to buy his company. On the Thursday morning
before Valentine's day, he left his office telling staff he had a meeting at Stonehenge. - He said, "I'm going off to do a deal and sell the company." He said, "And I'll, I'll let you know." And that was the last time I saw him. (gentle suspenseful music) - [Narrator] On Monday
morning, the employees at CIBA were greeted with a shock announcement. - I came in on a shift on
Monday, we all gathered around and Belinda was introduced as the new owner of the company by Ken. It came as a shock to everyone. It was something we weren't expecting. - Everyone was thinking
what happened to Anil, where he had gone, but is it
real that he sold the company? Or what about our jobs? And so many things
happening at the same time. - [Narrator] Regan produced
a letter, which explained that Chohan had sold the company and was retiring abroad with
Nancy, due to ill health. It bore the signature of Anil Chohan. - Because of it being a busy company, you couldn't sort of sit down
and stop whinging about it, or, or do anything about it. You just had to go on
and get on with the work, because it was a busy company. You would have to get on with the work and get the work done. - [Narrator] Belinda was
given a desk and a computer and began examining the books
as Regan had asked her to. But on her second day, she felt ill. Instead of going to CIBA where
Reagan was expecting her, she drove home to Devon. (gentle suspenseful music) - When I pulled into the
drive, I couldn't believe it. There was this old beaten up Jaguar. And I thought, what on
Earth is going on here? And I saw these two guys
in my field with a digger. (suspenseful music) - The two men were William
Horncy and Peter Reece, both friends of Ken Regan. (suspenseful music) (digger rumbling) - I went absolutely mad and I swore a lot. And I said, you know, what on Earth did they think they were doing? And he said, "Well, we're
building you a drainage ditch." You know, and then there's
this bloody, great big ditch in the middle of my field, running along the side of the hedge. I just couldn't believe it. (digger rumbling) Regan arrived. I said, "You know, it's not the fact that I might not need a drainage ditch. It was my land. You never
asked my permission. You just don't go digging
up people's land." He said, "Well, I thought
you would appreciate it." I mean, it just looked like a car park. You know, I just hated it, but I was going to have it taken up and they said, "Wait til the summer." But as it happened, the Metropolitan police dug it up for me. (ground shuffling) (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] In 2003
convicted drug smuggler, Kenneth Regan was on
the verge of regaining his former millionaire's lifestyle. Anil Chohan, the previous
owner of CIBA Freight had disappeared. Now, Regan was in control
of his bonded warehouse, an ideal front for importing drugs. For five years, Reagan had been obsessed by socialite Belinda Brewin from afar but now she was on his payroll. It seemed as if Regan's
dreams had all come true, but the secret behind his
success was about to be exposed. 12,000 miles away, Onkar Verma was working as a journalist in New Zealand. His sister Nancy was
raising a family in England with her husband, Anil Chohan. And Onkar was planning to visit the family for the very first time. (suspenseful music) - I was very excited because I was going to see
Nancy after nine years. And it was like a family
reunion after a long time. - [Narrator] Onkar used to speak to his sister and mother almost every day. But on the 15th of February,
the phone calls simply stopped. (phone beeping) - When I was trying to get hold of Nancy, I was trying to get hold of
mom, and nobody was here. So, you know, I thought
something's not right. - [Narrator] Concerned
for his family's safety, Onkar contacted the Metropolitan police. A routine missing persons inquiry established that the
family home was empty, but neighbors and colleagues seem to think the Chohans had all gone to India. - You have to remember that if people wish to leave a country and relocate to somewhere else,
then it's their right to do. In this particular inquiry,
the friends and family in the UK were very much of a belief that Mr. Chohan had decided to do that. (somber music) - [Narrator] Onkar decided that if the police
couldn't find his family, he would fly to Britain to investigate the disappearances himself. Alone in a country he'd
never been to before, Onkar went to the family home in Hounslow and was shocked by what he discovered. - As I entered the house, I could see the kids toys on the floor, the baby feed bottles, all the baby feed and the clothes, they
were still in the house. I opened the fridge, there
was uncooked food inside. - [Narrator] Onkar became
even more suspicious when he discovered his mother's
most treasured possession. - My mom's prayerbook was
there inside the house. That was something strange because my mom used to carry
it with her all the time. One thing I couldn't figure out that how would a family disappear? You're talking about two,
three adults and two kids, you know, two babies. And how can they just
disappear, without telling me? - [Narrator] With compelling evidence that his family had left the
house against their will, Onkar went to the police
and convinced them to launch a full investigation. DCI Andy Rowell began his inquiry by interviewing the last
person who was known to have seen Chohan on
the day he disappeared. Kenneth Regan. - Mr. Regan told us that Mr. Chohan was trying
to sell his business. And he was very much trying to steer it down the lines of that Mr. Chohan was an unsavory businessman who had, who had got himself into
deep water financially. And that had no other choice
really, but to disappear. (somber music) - But detectives were
unconvinced by Reagan's story. Using new forensic technology, they were able to track the movements of both Regan and Chohan's mobile phones on the day of the disappearance. - Initially, we could see
that Mr. Chohan's telephone was in the Hounslow area. We then tracked the phone
down to the Stonehenge area. (somber music) - Of course, Mr. Regan lived
not far from Stonehenge, in a village called Wilton in Salisbury. What we could see is
that Reagan's telephone met up with Mr. Chohan's telephone. Then the two telephones
traveled from that meeting point further down into the West
country towards Exeter. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] The only lead
the detectives had in Devon was that it was home to the
new managing director of CIBA, Belinda Brewin. They decided to pay her a visit. - When Reagan found out that the police were coming
to my house, he was furious. And he said to me, "You know, you mustn't allow the police
to come to your house. They'll just cause you aggravation. You know, once they get
a foot in your house you mustn't let them come to your house. I want you to phone them back and go and meet them somewhere else." And I thought, well, why
would I want to do that? - [Narrator] Later that
day, DCI Andy Rowell received a phone call
from Reagan's associate. - I've got some information
about Anil Chohan. - [Narrator] William Horncy claimed he'd recently
spoken to Anil Chohan, and that the missing
businessman was still in the UK. - I don't know, but he
told me he's on the run. - Mr. Horncy told me
that he was going to meet with Mr. Chohan in Newport, in Wales, by the passport office to supply
him with stolen passports. So what he was saying to us was, is that he was happy to deliver
Mr. Chohan into our hands. - And then what happened
was I got a phone call from DI Rowell saying, "Listen, thank you very much, Belinda, but we won't be coming to see you today. We have other information. And in fact, we probably
won't need to come and see you at all." Regan then rang me up, obviously to check to make sure that the police
had canceled their meeting. And he seemed to know that they had and I said, "Yes, they're not coming." He said, "Yes, I know, they're going to go to Wales and arrest Anil Chohan." So that was the end of that. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] The meeting with Chohan was due to take place on Easter Monday. But over the weekend, Belinda
received an unexpected visit from Regan, Horncy and Reece. - Regan said, "I'm going to
do the lane by your stables." Which actually did need graveling. And that would have been a
great place for the gravel. So I thought, well, okay. So when a digger arrived, I
wasn't, it didn't surprise me, because I thought, oh, they're going to
come and grade the lane. (digger humming) And it was a Saturday and
I took the kids into town and I let them get on with it. (digger rumbling) (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Two days
later, detectives traveled to the spot where Horncy said he was planning to meet Chohan. - In Newport, where
the passport office is, is this quite an iconic
bronze statue of a pig. And that's where Horncy said that he would bring Mr. Chohan to notice. On the day in question
he in fact turned up with Mr. Regan as well. And the pair of them stood
there for some moments. They then enacted receiving
a phone call and a text and then made it plainly obvious through their body language
that something had gone wrong with the, the arrangement. They explained they'd
received a phone call from someone saying, we
know you've told the police. We're friends of Nil's or
Anil Chohan's, the deal's off. - [Narrator] Police traced the calls, but only to an unregistered phone. They were no closer to finding Nil Chohan. And all they knew for certain was that they had been
led on a wild goose chase. - I don't think personally he was having a swipe at the police and that the sort of the
subtle joke about pigs. I hope not, anyway. - [Narrator] While Regan
returned to work at CIBA, the police reverted to their original plan and
called in Belinda Brewin for questioning. - The DI Rowell said to me, "I want to have a full and
frank discussion with you." And as I was leaving, Regan said to me, "Listen, Belinda, if the police ask you what I was doing on your land." He said, "You ought to tell." He said, "Just tell them
that I was helping you with your water system." I thought that was very odd. I mean, he'd said, he'd look at it, but no work had been done on it. And I just thought it was odd. When I went to meet the
police, they said to me, "What do you think's happened?" And I said, "Well, I don't really know." I said, "I've told you
everything that I know." And he said, "Is there anything
else that you think is odd?" And I said, "Well, when
I was leaving today, Regan asked me not, he'd said that if you were to ask me what he was doing on my land, I was to say that he'd been
working on my water system." And they said, "Well, what was he doing?" And I said, "He dug a drainage ditch." And the two of them looked
at each other and said, "He did what?" (upbeat suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Detectives rushed to Devon, convinced that a gruesome discovery awaited them on Belinda's farm. (upbeat suspenseful music) - We exhumed the dig site, painstaking, fingertip
forensic examination, using highly trained
forensic archeologists, and pathologists. (upbeat suspenseful music) - [Narrator] The murder squad spent the next five days
digging in Belinda's field. But the bodies they had expected to find were nowhere to be seen. (waves smashing) In April, 2003, police had been searching for the Chohan family for over two months, but they'd been looking
in the wrong place. (suspenseful music) - We'd planned to go out
for an evening's canoeing. Nice quiet day, nice calm sea, pleasantly warm this time of year. Yeah, so it was such an enjoyable evening, that we decided to venture out further than what we normally would do. (suspenseful music) After a short while I noticed
something floating in the sea. It appeared to be three floating objects, which, distance was unusual. - As we were sort of just
canoeing, mucking about, I had noticed something, but
I just totally discarded it. It wasn't until he sort
of shouted body at me and was just like, what? (suspenseful music) - As I approached, then I realized that it was obviously a body. A large body, because he was
oversized, somewhat inflated but the feet were floating on the water. And the torso, the head was
face down, was in the water. - He got me to go in, call up 999. (somber music) - I was determined to stay with the body, come what may, but I did
expect the rescue service would have been there
sooner rather than later. Leaving the water canoeing, in the dark for nearly three hours. It does get a bit unnerving. You can't ignore a body,
once you find a body, it just stays there. I can still see the body floating. (somber music) - [Narrator] The body was taken
to a mortuary in Bournemouth but it would be almost a
week before it was identified as that of missing
businessmen, Nil Chohan. - I went to Bournemouth and saw the body. The first time I had
a look on Anil's face, I could, I could see that
he suffered a tragic death. He was, he suffered while in death. (somber music) - He had received a blunt trauma injury to the back of his head. He had had packing tape
wound round his mouth. But the main blow to the head, followed by subsequent suffocation is the likely cause of
death for Mr. Chohan. - [Narrator] While Nil
Chohan's clothes were removed for forensic analysis,
a hundred miles away, police were still searching for evidence that his body had been buried
in Belinda Brewin's field. - The site of the dig obviously
became extremely important and we recovered some substantial evidence from that dig site, namely hairs from their,
burnt clothing, jewelry, which suggested that it had
in fact been a burial site. Those hairs were subsequently
identified as Mr. Chohan's. He had been murdered, at some stage he had been placed
in the grave down in Devon, that he had been exhumed from
that grave at a later date, put into a boat, the boat had gone out into the middle of the bay at Bournemouth and dumped it into the sea. (forklift buzzing) - Until his body was found, we all hoped that he
would be back one day. Even if he had sold the
company or not, he would still be back one day just to,
to visit us or whatever. But when his body was found,
you had just lost all hope. And that was, it was
the end of end of him. - But then our concerns sort of, we knew what happened to Anil, but then our concerns drifted towards Nancy and the kids and their mother. (somber music) - The fact that the dig site was so big. And that if, if you had
wanted just to hide one body, you wouldn't need it to
have gone to the extent of digging such a huge site. Coupled with the fact the
entire family had gone missing. Coupled with the fact there
had been a bonfire there. We had recovered some items of jewelry, which we believed to belong to Nancy. And also there was some
small poppers found, the type that one would
find on babygrow suits. So we believe that the
family had all been put into the ground at that point. (somber music) From that my moment on
the entire investigation changed focus and became a category A, which is the highest category
of, of murder inquiry. Kenneth Regan, obviously
from that point on became prime suspect. At that stage Reagan's
whereabouts were unknown as were Horncy's. They were very much on
the loose, so to speak. (somber music) - I was a bit overcome by
the whole thing really. And I don't really know what I thought but it never sort of, maybe
I just didn't want to think that somebody had been buried in my field. So I tried to make myself busy. And I noticed that my horse
had ripped it's horse blanket. So I took it off the horse put it in the car and I drive up the lane. And lo and behold, I bumped
into Regan and Horncy, who were in a car. (somber music) I was really shocked to see them. And Regan wound the window down. And I said to him, "What
are you doing here?" And he said, "We need
to have a little chat." And Horncy then said, "Why
don't you get in the car? We'll go and have a coffee." And I thought, oh, I don't want
to get in the car with them. So I, had the horse blanket next to me, and there was a little cottage, just up. And I said, "I've got to take this back. I've borrowed this from." You know, pointing to that. "I've got to take it back.
And they're expecting it back. I'll be back in two minutes." I said. So, he said, "Okay." So I drove off and I
drove around the corner and I phoned DI Rowell. And he said, "Whatever you do, don't get in the car with them." So I said, "Okay." He said, "I'm gonna send
two police officers back." Two police officers arrived,
but Regan and Horncy, they'd gone. (upbeat dramatic music) - [Narrator] Regan and
Horncy had escaped to Europe, leaving Peter Reece behind. But alone and on the run, Reece developed a guilty conscience. - [Wendy] I think he was cornered. He didn't know me from Adam. He just came in, sat down and more or less started pouring his heart out. - [Narrator] At the time Wendy Powles was staying at a boarding house
when a new lodger moved in, within hours Reece made
a startling confession. - Well, I just took him as any, you know, new lodger that came there. Until he started saying,
have I seen him on TV? And I said, "No, should I have done?" And so I just wondered. He said, "'Cause I have been on TV." And he's not celebrity or anything. You know, he didn't look that way. And he just said that he was involved with an Asian family that had disappeared. "They could put me at the scene of where the bodies were buried, but I didn't, I didn't
I didn't kill anybody." He was going, "I, you
know, they can't do that. They can't pin that on me." And I, I say to him, you
know, "What is going on?" You know, he just said
that Regan was crazy, 'cause he'd killed two children. I gasped and I said, "How did you, were they killed?" He said that Regan had shot them. "It was Regan, he's a psycho," he said. "He killed them all." I knew what I had to do. Because how many people come
into your home every day and say they've killed
five people and two babies? Well, three adults and two babies. (Wendy sighs) - [Narrator] Wendy Powels
alerted the police. And after just 12 days on the run, Peter Reece was arrested at a nearby pub. Despite his confession to Wendy Powels, Reece refused to answer any questions and the whereabouts of the
Chohan family remained a mystery. But three weeks later, a fishermen discovered another
body floating in the Solent. - I was told that Nancy's
body was decomposed. But I insisted on seeing the body, because for me it was not as scary then, for me it was my baby sister. For me, she was, she was still alive and I was talking to her and that was it. A tearful goodbye. That's what I said. I felt sorry that I couldn't save her. I did say that, Nancy, I tried my best, but I couldn't save you. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Kenneth Regan
was tracked down by police in Belgium after two months on the run. And just six weeks later,
William Horncy gave himself up. The three prime suspects
were now in custody but they refused to answer any questions. With three family members still missing and no witnesses to the murders, police needed hard evidence
to link their suspects to the crime. Little did they realize that
the vital clue they needed had been left by Anil Chohan himself. April, 2005 saw the start of
the longest criminal trial in the history of the old Bailey. Police were trying to prove that Kenneth Regan, William
Horncy and Peter Reece had abducted and murdered all five members of the Chohan family. The nine-month trial saw almost 4500 different exhibits, from financial transactions
to petrol receipts. But it was telephone tracking evidence which provided the foundation
for the whole case. - We got ourselves into a position, where we pretty much knew
exactly what had gone on and could give a very clear
indication to the trial. The enormity of the crime,
and who'd committed it. (somber music) - [Narrator] Initially,
police had established Regan and Chohan's movements
by tracking their mobiles. Once they gained access to
Horncy and Reece' phones, they had compelling
evidence for an abduction. - Our telephone intelligence had suggested that Mr. Chohan had been with Mr. Regan, Horncy and Reece, then
the telephones traveled down to Wilton in Salisbury, namely 3, Forge Close, which was Ken Reagan's home address. - Over the critical period, when Mr. Chohan had initially
been, had gone missing, there was never a time that
one of those telephones wasn't in that area, leading us to believe he was being guarded at number 3, Forge Close. (tape shuffling) (somber music) - [Narrator] All the men could
now be placed at the scene but detectives still needed further clues as to what really happened
at 3, Forge Close. In the run-up to the trial, they unexpectedly received
some vital new evidence from one of the suspect's own relatives. - Mr. Horncy's son approach
police and produced to us Lexmark color printer, and
also this gray suitcase, which contained a number
of pieces of A4 paper with Mr. Chohan signature on. - [Narrator] The printer and documents from Horncy's suitcase explained how Regan had managed to
convince the staff at CIBA, that Anil Chohan had sold the
company and left the country. (suspenseful music) Police argued that Anil Chohan was held at 3, Forge Close, so Regan could force him to
sign the documents under duress. - What are you playing
at? What are you doing? Just fucking sign it. (somber music) (papers shuffling) - [Narrator] The suitcase
contained 10 blank sheets with Chohan's signature. Spares, which Regan could have used to produce other forgeries
if they were needed. (somber music) - Regan's initial plan was
to get rid of Anil Chohan. I think once he'd gone down that road, he was left in a position
where he had to murder the entire family, because he knew that had he not done so, that Nancy would have raised the alarm. We could see clearly from
the telephone intelligence that while Mr. Reece
remained in Salisbury, Regan and Horncy traveled to London, to Sutton Road, Hounslow,
where they spent several hours. I can only guess, but it's possible that that is when the
family met their deaths in that address. I don't know that to date. What I can say, is that Reagan
and Horncy were in the area. And I can say, that the family
disappeared on that day. (door slams) For Mr. Regan, these murders
were something he had to do, to get what he wanted. And it was, almost as meant little to him as changing his shirt. (somber music) - [Narrator] The police
were unable to establish precisely where or when
the family were murdered, but they were convinced that Anil Chohan had been killed at Regan's bungalow. The problem was proving it. - We carried out a full
forensic examination of the premises over many days. There was nothing
significantly found there. The reasons for this was that, the room had been recently decorated. And certainly the furniture from that room was certainly removed. And Mr. Regan had replaced it immediately with new furniture. - The fact that the premises
had been redecorated, the carpet had been removed. The sofa had been removed,
really was clearly indicative of someone trying to conceal evidence and clean up a crime scene. But despite the suspicious
activity at the house it was not proof that Chohan
had been murdered by Regan. It was only a single
extraordinary piece of evidence that will convince the jury
beyond reasonable doubt. A clue which had been initially overlooked by the scientists and left in storage for almost eight months. A clue left by Anil Chohan himself. - We have two exhibits here. One is a, the right sock of Mr. Chohan, which was taken from
him at the post-mortem down in Dorset. (somber music) Most of the clothes were
submitted immediately to the Forensic Science
Service for examination. But socks, normally there's
very little evidential value in socks, but for completeness, we decided to send the
remaining items of clothing to the scientist who had requested them. When the scientists un-packaged
the sock and examined it, inside was found a folded piece of paper. As you can see, it's in
a very delicate state it has been dried, but it's
obviously been in the seawater. I think the way it's
been folded so many times has has protected it. And it's a letter from the
Cheltenham and Gloucester building society, and it's
addressed to Mr. Regan of number 3, Forge Close. And it's dated the 12th of February, 2003, which clearly meant it arrived the day we believe Mr. Chohan was being
held captive at Forge Close. (somber music) (door slams) (upbeat suspenseful music) (pee trickling) (suspenseful music) (toilet flushing) (suspenseful music) You can only imagine the fear that Mr Chohan would have been in, to secret this in his person and certainly to put it into sock. He must've realized that
he faced imminent death. - Of course, it's overwhelming evidence of the message that Mr.
Chohan was trying to send from beyond the grave was to who had, who had actually murdered him. - [Narrator] After a nine-month trial, the jury reached a unanimous verdict. Peter Reece was sentenced to 23 years for the murder of Anil Chohan. Horncy and Regan each received five consecutive life sentences for murdering the Chohan family. They will never be released from prison. The remains of Charanjit Kaur,
Anil Chohan's mother-in-law, were eventually found off the
coast of the Isle of White. But the bodies of the two babies, 18-month old Devinder and
eight-week old Ravinder have never been found. - I think that the killing of
any child is extremely tragic. And I think as a police officer, having investigated such crimes, you can normally see a
reason why that happened. Someone snapped, someone was depressed, someone was mentally ill, and there's normally a
variety of motivations for a child being murdered. In these circumstances the motivation was purely
self-gain and greed. And for me, I found that
particularly horrific. - I still have nightmares about, how the killers might have killed Nancy or who was killed first. Was Nancy killed in front of my mom? Or my mom killed in front of Nancy? Or the kids killed in
front of mom and Nancy? And it's, it's just, very hard, you know. And I don't think I'll ever be able to come to terms with it. (somber music) - [Narrator] Onkar
returned to New Zealand. He would never meet his sister's children. The only time he saw them all together was on a family video he
found in their empty home. - When I found Nancy's video, it was filmed just two days
before their disappearance. - [Nancy] Hello! (Nancy cooing) - [Onkar] And I could see in the video, the family celebrating life and the kids playing in the house. - Joy in a cup. - [Onkar] The elder son, he took his first steps in the video. And my mom, she was
very happy in the video. (Charanjit laughs) When I look at the video, I was very happy, you know, because I never actually saw
Anil and Nancy living together. - [Nancy] Do it properly,
gardener. Very nice. - But through that video, I came to know that Nancy was very happy with Anil and she was, you know, she was very lucky to have
tie like Anil had had. Every time I close my eyes, I
can, I can see Nancy smiling as if nothing has happened,
she's still there. And she's waiting for me to come over. (somber music) (suspenseful music)
This was from 2006.