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FACTFILE
1997,
Regan was a heroin smuggler, living the high life. He
wore tailor made clothes, drove round in a Mercedes, and
gave friends Cartier watches.
1998,
Regan was arrested as part of a major police drug
offensive, he was caught with 30kg of heroin.
He turned
supper grass, giving police many details about felloe
drug smugglers.
As a
consequence of his cooperation he served only four years
in prison.
July 2002,
Once out of prison he had to hide away, he changed his
Name from Avery to Regan by deed-poll, there were
various gangland contracts out on his life. He missed
the high life, and hatched a plan to steal a business..
January
2003, Regan tries to organise a £3m deal involving
land near Heathrow airport which Amarjit Chohan has an
option to buy.
When this falls through Regan begins to target Mr
Chohan's haulage company Ciba Freight, which is near
London's Heathrow airport.
13th
February 2003, Mr Chohan disappears after going to
meet a man allegedly interested in buying Ciba Freight.
He is abducted
by Regan, Horncy and Peter Rees and taken back to
Regan's father's home near Salisbury, Wiltshire
The
millionaire businessman was then held at Regan's
temporary home at his fathers house in Forge
Close, Wilton, near Salisbury, Wilts, where he was
tortured,
The
businessman was gagged, forced to record voice messages
for his family and to sign a letter handing over
his entire business to Regan. Unknown to Regan at the
time, Mr Chohan had managed to write a note, dated the
12th February, the note written to Regan was only found
after the body was found, but this proved a piece of
incriminating evidence against Regan.
Regan had
planned to make people think Mr Chohan had given up his
freight business and gone abroad voluntarily, with his
family.
15th
February 2003, With Rees guarding Mr Chohan, Regan
and Horncy travelled to London, and talked their way
into Mr Chohan's home.
They kill his
wife Nancy, her young sons Ravinder and Devinder and her
mother Charanjit Kaur. They hire a van and take all the
bodies to the West Country
17th
February 2003, Regan arrived at Mr Chohan's company
- CIBA Freight with a handwritten letter from Mr Chohan
and a power of attorney for the running of the company,
the employees were suspicious.
19th
February 2003, A friend of Regan's, Belinda Brewin,
was unwittingly manipulated. Unknown to her Regan used
her 50 acre estate at Great Colefield House, Stoodleigh,
Tiverton, Devon, to secretly bury the five bodies of the
Chohan family.
March 2003,
pressure from family members about the families
disappearance mounts, and the case is referred to
Scotland Yard.
19th April
2003,
(Easter
Saturday):
Regan
goes into state of panic by the progress of the police
investigation, fearing they will soon learn of the farm
in Devon, he returns with Horncy and Rees and digs up
the five bodies.
Ms. Brewin
became suspicious, she arrived back at the farm in Devon
and found Regan, Horncy and Rees working on a drainage
ditch in her field.
20th April
2003, The men buy a boat and dump the bodies in the
English channel.
April 2003,
Mr Chohan's body was found floating in the sea near
Bournemouth pier .When his body was found, it was
obvious he had been restrained. He had been gagged with
packing tape. Also a urine sample showed an unusually
high level of gammahydroxybutyrate - a drug more
commonly known as GHB, which can be used as a sedative.
15th July
2003, Mrs. Chohan's body was recovered in the
same area.
2nd August
2003, Regan had been on the run, but police caught
up with him, they tracked him from Spain, and arrested
him t a campsite in Belgium.
7th
September 2003, the body of Charanjit Kaur was found
floating in a bay off the Isle Of Wight.
The bodies of
the two boys have never been recovered
September
2003, Horncy gives himself up to police i9n Dover.
8th
November 2004, All three men go on trial for murder
and kidnapping.
Friday 1st
July 2005,
Regan and Horncy
are convicted of five murders. Rees is convicted of Mr
Chohan's murder and of assisting an offender, but cleared of
the other four murder charges
Tuesday 5th
July 2005, sentencing the three men to life
imprisonment, the judge told Regan and Horncy they
should never be released and Rees will have to serve at
least 23 years.
The murder
investigation, thought to be the longest involving the
Metropolitan police, at the time, cost more than £10m
Regan and
Horncy are on the Home Office list of 'Whole life
tariff' prisoners; click here >>
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