Captain Cash

Amarjit “Neil” Chohan, 45, ran CIBA, a freight company near Heathrow Airport, and lived in Hounslow, west London, with his wife, Nancy, 25, their sons Devinder, 18 months, and Ravinder, eight weeks, and Nancy’s mother, Charanjit Kaur, 51. Kenneth Regan, a career criminal, wanted the business as cover for smuggling drugs. He brought in William Horncy and Peter Rees to help him get it.

On February 13, 2003, Amarjit went to a business meeting near Stonehenge and never came home. His captors made him record messages for his family and sign papers that Regan later used to take control of the company. Days later, Nancy, her mother and the two little boys disappeared from the family home. The victims were buried on a farm in Devon, then dug up in April and dumped at sea. Amarjit’s body surfaced off Bournemouth that month, Nancy’s was recovered from the sea that summer, and Charanjit’s washed ashore on the Isle of Wight in November. The boys were never found.

The trial lasted about eight months and ranked among the longest criminal trials Britain had seen. In July 2005, Regan and Horncy were convicted of all five murders and given whole-life orders. Rees was convicted of Amarjit’s murder and of assisting an offender but acquitted of the remaining four. Regan later lost an appeal against his convictions.