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Chohan murder case takes mysterious turn
Vijat Dutt
London, May 4
Hindustan Times
Police looking for the missing family of Indian millionaire Amarjit Chohan, whose body was
found in the sea near Bournemouth pier, started digging for bodies in a remote part of the
West Country.
Specialist units were drafted to move into farmland near Tiverton, Devon, soon after a
floating corpse, later identified that of Chohan, was found by canoeists near the Pier on
April 22. The police could not immediately identify the body because it was in a highly
decomposed state.
Police now say Amarjit's remains had been buried on land owned by Belinda Brewin, best
friend of the late TV presenter Paula Yates, soon after his disappearance. It was then dug
up and dumped into the sea.
Detectives are apprehensive that his family may still be buried there.
The search in Devon has so far been concentrated on a group of farm buildings in Higher
Coleford, six miles from Tiverton. Officers have also been digging up the garden of
Belinda Brewin, a former assistant to Paula Yates.
Ms Brewin,41, had called the police when she recognised the face of a suspect flashed on
the TV. She feared that the suspect Ken Regan had buried the Chohans in her garden. She
had previously worked at his company with Regan who had helped to dig a drainage ditch at
her farmhouse in February. She is not a suspect.
Scotland Yard has now launched an international hunt for two men suspected of being
involved in Amarjit's killing and his family's disappearance. The Yard has brought in
Interpol to trace lorry driver Ken Regan, alias Ken Avery, 54, from Salisbury who worked
for Amarjit and William Horncy, travelling under the name of William Smith,51, from
Bournemouth.
The two suspects reportedly boarded a ship at Dover for France. The Yard has sought help
from the French police. Detective Chief Inspector Norman McKinley said, " I am satisfied
Ken Regan and William Horncy are involved in the murder of Amarjit Chohan and are also
involved in the disappearance of the missing members of Mr Chohan's family.
"They must be regarded as being dangerous and violent." Their pictures have been flashed
all over. Chohan, according to the police, met Regan eight years ago when the latter ran a
fruit-and-vegetable business. He later became Chohan's driver.
Chohan, regarded as cheerful and friendly man, ran a fruit-and-vegetable import company,
with a turnover of £4 million. A paper has now claimed that Amarjit was sentenced to three
years' jail in 1996 for 13 fraud offences involving import tax evasion at Jumbo Freight
Services, of which he was a director.
Police suspect that Amarjit's death might be linked to criminal activity run in parallel
with his legitimate business, possibly involving the smuggling of the stimulant drug, Qat,
into the US where it is banned.
Residents of Hounslow in west London, Amarjit and his family, wife Nancy, two young sons
Davinder and Ravinder and his mother-in-law, had suddenly gone missing on February 16.
Police were suspicious of foul play from the beginning because most of their belongings
were found at their house and no money had been drawn from their bank accounts.
But now it has been revealed that Amarjit disappeared while in Southampton on February16,
while his family vanished on the same day from their Hounslow house. Significantly one of
his cars was involved in an accident in Southampton.
But the two men in it, one English and the other Black, got away by giving false
information. The police apparently had until then no clue to connect it with the
disappearance of the family.
Police are working on the theory that Amarjit was importing goods illegally through his
firm CIBA freight and forging false names on official documents. But many questions
remain. The case might turn out to be weirder than any Agatha Christie mystery.
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Name of Mr Amerjit Chohan's first son,from First wife is Satinder Singh chohan.
He is highly educated. But talks and behaves like a 5 year old. Comes visiting me when he runs away from his mother.