Gangster Plot Leads to Murder of Amarjit Chohan Family and Disposal at Sea

In February 2003, millionaire Amarjit Chohan told staff he was leaving early for a business meeting near Stonehenge, a pretext for selling his fruit-import company and moving to India. Two days later his wife, two baby sons (aged 18 months and eight weeks) and mother-in-law vanished from their Hounslow bungalow. Their disappearance turned into a murder investigation after Amarjit’s body was found gagged with packing tape near Bournemouth pier, his wife’s remains later recovered by fishermen in Poole Bay, and the mother-in-law’s skull discovered on the Isle of Wight.

Detectives linked the crimes to Kenneth Regan, a driver for Chohan’s firm with a history of drug-smuggling and other offenses, who had befriended Chohan while both served time for fraud. Regan, together with associate William Horncy and Peter Rees, kidnapped the family, killed the victims, buried them on a farm owned by Belinda Brewin in Tiverton, and subsequently dumped the bodies at sea. The investigation was recounted on The Crime Desk’s On the Case podcast.