In a horrifying court case being tried across the pond, three men, Kenneth Regan, William Horncy and Peter Rees are accused of murdering an entire family because they wanted to steal their Southall-based freight business, to use for smuggling narcotics.

Describing the deaths of Amarjit Chohan, 45, Nancy Chohan, 24, Devinder, 18 months, Ravinder, eight weeks old and Charanjit Kaur, 51, Richard Horwell, prosecuting, said: “Some crimes are beyond belief and on any view these horrific murders fall into that category.”

He said: “Three generations of a family were executed, deliberately killed, because of the greed of these three defendants.” He told the court that Regan lured Chohan to a meeting in Stonehenge on February 13, 2003, ostensibly to meet a potential buyer for his fruit freight business, CIBA Freight.

“Mr Chohan walked into a trap. Thereafter he was used and controlled by the defendants and held against his will for several days before being murdered. To make his disappearance appear genuine it was, or became, necessary for his family also to be murdered.

…The bodies were initially buried on farmland near Tiverton, Devon…When (Regan) realised police were closing in to exhume them he and Horncy bought a boat which was used to dump the family in the sea on Easter Sunday last year.

Two days later, Chohan’s body was found near Bournemouth pier. In July, Mrs Chohan was found in a fisherman’s net between Dorset and the Isle of Wight. In November, Mrs Kaur’s remains were washed up on the Isle of Wight. The boys have never been found.

Businessman Chohan had previously served time in prison for tax evasion, and this allowed his alleged murderer to craft a suitable lie in an attempt to cover his tracks; he tried to make it seem as if Chohan wanted to avoid his business partners and the government by taking his family to hide abroad. If it weren’t for Nancy Chohan’s skeptical brother, Regan and his accomplices might have gotten away with murder.