WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:12.119 Aha, there, Hello, Nina. 2 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:16.839 Nina, Nina, and Hey. Eighteen month old Dovenda and his 3 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:21.039 baby brother Avinda were the sons of successful businessman Neil Chohan. 4 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:25.440 With a loving marriage to his wife Nancy, Neil had 5 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:33.280 everything a man could want. But in February two thousand 6 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.119 and three, just two days after this film was shot, 7 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:41.320 all five members of this happy family simply disappeared. 8 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.079 Vanished without a trace, the generations of one Faba Choan's 9 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:49.960 and out the center of a major police hunt. 10 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:52.640 Why would anybody want to simply walk away? And Anina 11 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.039 told me, Hid, this is the story of a man 12 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.479 who made an entire family disappear. 13 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.119 Detectives later found evidence of a car bridge an. 14 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.239 The story of an extraordinary deception by a ruthless criminal 15 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:07.280 who wanted to get rich at any cost. 16 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.359 Had absolutely no moral conscience whatsoever, a. 17 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.959 Man who almost succeeded in outwitting the police by committing 18 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:17.239 a crime so unique and horrific no one dared to 19 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:18.480 believe it had taken place. 20 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.480 Prosecution had described the crimes as beyond belief. 21 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:35.480 In two thousand and three, businessman Neil Chohan was the 22 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.920 owner of a successful fruit importation firm based at Heathrow 23 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.879 called Siba Freight. With a wife and two children. Choen 24 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.439 was known to his staff as a contented family man 25 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:47.000 and an easy going boss. 26 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:50.840 Niel's way of running the company was a relaxed, sort 27 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:54.760 of like happy girl lucky attitude. We were mucked in 28 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.040 whenever it was busy. Here, get pizzas, get drinks. They 29 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:03.599 want to sort of like one big, happy family. 30 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:07.359 But owning a freight company had made Neil Chohan a target. 31 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:16.280 In January two thousand and three, a recently released convict 32 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:22.840 arrived at siber Freight looking for work. His name was 33 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:23.680 Kenneth Reagan. 34 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:29.400 You must be Ken, that's me. 35 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:33.400 You're mister choin right. Neil Chohan had spent time in 36 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:36.039 prison for tax evasion and was sympathetic to the ex 37 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.039 con who said he wanted to go straight. 38 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.159 It was a very fair person. He'd always give people 39 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:47.719 not a second chance, but a tenth chance. He'd been 40 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:50.639 in prison himself, and obviously he'd had a second chance, 41 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:56.000 so why shouldn't anybody else. Ken came on as a 42 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:59.960 year driver, not frightening again, his hands dirty. 43 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:02.360 As a worker. I thought he was good. 44 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:15.639 But Kenneth Reagan was no ordinary delivery driver. Five years earlier, 45 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.199 Reagan had been a successful drug smuggler known to his 46 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.439 friends as Captain Cash. 47 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.639 In the late nineties, Ken Reagan was a career criminal. 48 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:32.599 Reagan set up freight companies in around the Heathrow area 49 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.400 and he'd used those as a front to bring drugs 50 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:42.080 into the country. He knew most of the major criminals 51 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.759 in London and criminal families, and he was very much 52 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:47.520 living the high life. 53 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.560 It was in a fashionable London bar that Reagan first 54 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:58.080 met celebrity agent and socialite Belinda Brewin. 55 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:05.280 He was a bit rough. I think it's not well educated, 56 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:10.400 quite charming, dressed well, nice watch, spent a lot of money. 57 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:20.920 He was kind of like a rich wide boy. Reagan's 58 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.560 nickname was Captain Cash. He always had a lot of money, 59 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.839 and I mean high denomination notes. He had a briefcase 60 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.000 and I've seen that twice and it was just full 61 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.920 of money, and I think he thought it bought in 62 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.759 class when he had none whatsoever. 63 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:43.240 Belinda would eventually be drawn unwittingly into Reagan's world of 64 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:47.560 crime and deceit. It started when the gangster became obsessed 65 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:48.720 with her. 66 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.879 He used to phone me quite a lot and emails 67 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.680 saying I've never i haven't felt like this in thirty years. 68 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.319 You're like a drug. I can't. I mean, just bizarre, 69 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:04.759 considered that he didn't really know me at all. And 70 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.639 then one day a friend of mine said to me, 71 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.160 why on earth are you going out with someone like Reagan? 72 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.279 And I said to him, I'm not, and he said, well, 73 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.360 he told me that you're his girlfriend. And I said, 74 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:18.519 you've got to be kidding, and he said, no, I'm not, 75 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:22.759 which I found slightly worrying. And then literally, I think, 76 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:24.399 a few days later, he got arrested. 77 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.560 June the seventeenth, nineteen ninety eight, Reagan was caught with 78 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.680 twenty five kilograms of heroin. Facing eighteen years in prison, 79 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.759 he decided to become a grass. Reagan's testimony helped convict 80 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:43.639 twelve major criminals, while his own sentence was reduced. By 81 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.759 the time he was released from prison four years later, 82 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:50.360 Captain Cash had few friends and little money. 83 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.759 When Reagan was released from his prison sentence, He's very 84 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.800 much gone back to having nothing. All his assets have 85 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.759 been stripped from him. It's part of the confiscation order. 86 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.800 And here he was back living in one bedroom of 87 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:08.879 a very small bungalow with his father. Reagan I think 88 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.319 very much wanted to get back in the driving seat 89 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:16.639 as a drug importer. Mister Chohan's business was the perfect 90 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.120 framework to hang his drug dealing activities on. 91 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.560 Reagan came up with a plan to steal Neil Chohan's company, 92 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.600 a plan so ruthless that no one would realize it 93 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:39.319 had taken place. He began by setting a trap. Soon 94 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.920 after starting work at SEBA, Reagan approached Chohan and said 95 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.199 he knew some investors who wanted to buy the company. 96 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.040 The bait was a cash offer of three million pounds, 97 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.279 a large enough sum to tempt the businessman whose wife 98 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:54.879 Nancy wanted him to retire. 99 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:56.639 I investors. 100 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.600 I knew that Nancy wanted to go back to Inda. 101 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.680 She'd made it clear she missed India, and we talked 102 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.360 about it a couple of times, because he did say 103 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.600 that the level of education India was higher than the 104 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.160 UK and Nancy was desperate to go back there. 105 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.920 While Chohan considered his offer, Reagan began working on the 106 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.639 next phase of his plan. Seber freight was not the 107 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:32.480 only thing he wanted to acquire. By this time, Belinda 108 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:35.319 Bruin had given up her house in Chelsea for a 109 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:41.160 new life in Devon. Reagan's obsessive calls and letters had 110 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.639 stopped during his four years in prison, but now free, 111 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.079 he began to pursue Belinda once more. 112 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:51.120 A few weeks after you got out of prison, he 113 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.399 left me a few messages on my mobile. He said 114 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:56.720 that he had a business deal he wished to discuss 115 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.639 with me. And at the time, I had this huge house, 116 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:04.160 a huge mortgage and two kids at private school. When 117 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.360 I'd given up my job and then my boyfriend left me, 118 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:13.959 so I was it was how can I put it? Yes, 119 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:15.839 so I rang him. 120 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.959 Reagan told Belinda he was planning to take over Seber 121 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:23.160 Freight and needed a new managing director. Although she had 122 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:27.160 no relevant experience, Reagan offered her a huge salary for 123 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:28.199 a two day week. 124 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:34.000 At first, he offered me fifty four thousand pounds, which 125 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.320 is a lot of money. But I thought, you know, 126 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.159 I've got two kids at private school and a huge mortgage. 127 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.080 That's not going to cover everything. And so he said, fine, 128 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:44.960 I'll pay you seventy two thousand, and I thought, well, 129 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:45.559 that's great. 130 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:51.240 The job offer gave Reagan an excuse to visit Belinda 131 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.120 at her isolated Devon home. 132 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.440 He'd come up with bizarre reasons, like he'd want me 133 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.279 to sign a letter or form, or he'd want me 134 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.440 to help him fill in a form, and he'd drive 135 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:06.840 all the way from Salisbury or from London to my 136 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:08.919 house for twenty minutes. 137 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:14.679 Reagan seemed to become strangely fixated on the land around 138 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:15.600 Belinda's farm. 139 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.399 He used to moan about the mud a lot the 140 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.639 mud in the lane. You know, I couldn't live here, 141 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.559 it's so disgusting. He wanted to cut down some of 142 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:29.919 the trees and build a nice wall and electric gates. 143 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.080 I mean, this was an old farmhouse, not a football 144 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.279 as pad in Essex. He kept saying, I could make 145 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.039 this place really, really nice for you. What you need 146 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:40.159 is a drainage ditch. 147 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:53.399 By February, chohen had made up his mind he would 148 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:57.240 meet the investors that Reagan said wanted to buy his company. 149 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.879 On the Thursday morning before Valentine's Day, he left his 150 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.639 office telling staff he had a meeting at Stonehenge. 151 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:10.000 He said, I'm going off to do a deal and 152 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.279 sell the company. He said, and I'll let you know. 153 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:32.759 And that was the last time I saw him. 154 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:36.440 On Monday morning. The employees at Siba were greeted with 155 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:37.519 a shock announcement. 156 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.279 I came in on a shift on Monday. We all 157 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.559 gathered around and Blinda was introduced as a new owner 158 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:45.759 of the company by Ken. 159 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:47.240 Came in. 160 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:48.000 The shocked everyone. 161 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.399 It was something we were expecting. 162 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.120 Everyone was thinking, what had happened to Neil? Where he 163 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:58.000 had gone? But is it real that he sold the company? 164 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.679 Or what about our jobs? And so many things happening 165 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:01.600 At the same time. 166 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.320 Reagan produced a letter which explained that Chohan had sold 167 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.519 the company and was retiring abroad with Nancy due to 168 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:15.879 ill health. It bore the signature of Neil Choen Well. 169 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.240 Because of it being a busy company, you couldn't sort 170 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.879 of sit down and start whinging about her or do 171 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:23.759 anything about it. You just had to get on with 172 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:25.360 the work. Because it was a busy company, you would 173 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:26.679 have to get on with the work and get the 174 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:28.840 work done. 175 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:32.559 Belinda was given a desk and a computer and began 176 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:37.320 examining the books as Reagan had asked her to, but 177 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.000 on her second day she felt ill. Instead of going 178 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.440 to Siba, where Reagan was expecting her, she drove home 179 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:45.000 to Devon. 180 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.440 When I pulled into the drive, I couldn't believe it. 181 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.440 There was this old beaten up jack yo and I thought, 182 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.159 what an's going on here? And I saw these two 183 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.399 guys in my field with a digger. 184 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.919 The two men were William Harnsey and Peter Reese, both 185 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:13.159 friends of Ken Reagan. 186 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:25.000 I went absolutely mad and I swore a lot, and 187 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.200 I said, you know, what on earth did they think 188 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.840 they were doing? And he said, well, we're building you 189 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:34.200 a drainage ditch, you know. And there's this bloody great 190 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:38.240 big ditch in the middle of my field running along 191 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:40.679 the side of the hedge. I just couldn't believe it. 192 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:47.440 Reagan arrived. I said, you know, it's not the fact 193 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.639 that I might not need a drainage ditch. It was 194 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:52.960 my land. You never asked my permission. You just don't 195 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.440 go digging up people's land. He said, well, I thought 196 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.519 you would appreciate it. I mean, it just looked like 197 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.799 a car park and now I'd just hated it. But 198 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.120 I was going to have it taken up, and they 199 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.639 said wait till the summer. But as it happened, the 200 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.399 Metropolitan Police dug it up for me. 201 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.200 In two thousand and three, convicted drug smuggler Kenneth Reagan 202 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:22.600 was on the verge of regaining his former millionaire's lifestyle. 203 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.440 Neil Chohen, the previous owner of siber Freight, had disappeared. 204 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.360 Now Reagan was in control of his bonded warehouse, an 205 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:37.519 ideal front for importing drugs. For five years, Reagan had 206 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.240 been obsessed by socialized Belinda Bruin from a farm, but 207 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.600 now she was on his payroll. It seemed as if 208 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:48.200 Reagan's dreams had all come true, but the secret behind 209 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:55.360 his success was about to be exposed. Twelve thousand miles away, 210 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.159 on Coverma was working as a journalist in New Zealand. 211 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.000 Nancy was raising a family in England with her husband, 212 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:06.279 Neil Chohan, and Onca was planning to visit the family 213 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:07.799 for the very first time. 214 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.919 I was very excited because I was going to see 215 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.200 Nancy after nine years, and it was like our family 216 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:18.759 reunion after a long time. 217 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.240 Onca used to speak to his sister and mother almost 218 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:27.240 every day, but on the fifteenth of February, the phone 219 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:28.320 calls simply. 220 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.799 Stopped, and I was trying to get all of Nancy. 221 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.679 I was trying to get a lot mom and ill. 222 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:41.240 Nobody was here, so you know, I thought something's not right. 223 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.679 Concern for his family's safety, Oka contacted the Metropolitan Police. 224 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:51.120 A routine missing person's inquiry established that the family home 225 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.039 was empty, but neighbors and colleagues seemed to think the 226 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:55.600 Choen's had all gone to India. 227 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:00.519 You have to remember that if people wish to leave 228 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.080 a country and relocate to somewhere else, then it's their 229 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:08.679 right to do so. In this particular inquiry, the friends 230 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.720 and family in the UK were very much of a 231 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.879 belief that mister Chohan had decided to do that. 232 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.759 Onca decided that if the police couldn't find his family, 233 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.480 he would fly to Britain to investigate the disappearances himself, 234 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.600 alone in a country he'd never been to before. Oncer 235 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:32.759 went to the family home in Hounslow and was shocked 236 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:33.759 by what he discovered. 237 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:39.159 As I entered the house, I could the kids twice 238 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:44.159 on the floor, the baby feed bodens, all the baby 239 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.440 feed and the clothes. They were still in the house. 240 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:53.240 They afraid that there was a cook food inside. 241 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.159 Onca became even more suspicious when he discovered his mother's 242 00:15:58.159 --> 00:15:59.399 most treasured possession. 243 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:04.360 My mom's prayer book was there inside the house. That 244 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:06.879 was something strange because my mum used to carry it 245 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:11.200 with her all the time. One thing I couldn't figure 246 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:17.159 out that Harwood a family disappear. We're talking about two 247 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:21.720 three adults and two kids, you know, two babies, and 248 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:26.000 how can they just disappear without telling me? 249 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:30.720 With compelling evidence that his family had left the house 250 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.879 against their will, uncle went to the police and convinced 251 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:39.559 them to launch a full investigation. DCI Andy Rowl began 252 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:42.399 his inquiry by interviewing the last person who was known 253 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:47.200 to have seen Choan on the day he disappeared, Kenneth Reagan. 254 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:51.679 Mister Reagan told us that mister Chohan was trying to 255 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:55.759 sell his business and he was very much trying to 256 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:59.440 steer it down the lines of that mister Chohan was 257 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:05.079 an unsavory businessman who had got himself into deep water 258 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:09.839 financially and that had no other choice really but to disappear. 259 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:18.880 But detectives were unconvinced by Reagan's story. Using new forensic technology, 260 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:21.519 they were able to track the movements of both Reagan 261 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.519 and Chohan's mobile phones on the day of the disappearance. 262 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.119 Initially, we could see mister Chohan's telephone was in the 263 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:33.559 Handslow area. We then tracked the phone down to the 264 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:40.519 Stonehenge area. Now, of course, mister Reagan lived not far 265 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:46.279 from Stonehenge in a village called Wilton in Salisbury. What 266 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.160 we could see is that Reagan's telephone met up with 267 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:56.640 mister Chohan's telephone, and then the two telephones traveled from 268 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.200 that meeting point further down into the West Country towards. 269 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.960 The only lead the detectives had in Devon was that 270 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.480 it was home to the new managing director of SIBA 271 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.680 by Linda Brewin. They decided to pay her a visit. 272 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.759 When Reagan found out that the police were coming to 273 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.720 my house, he was furious and he said to me, 274 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:27.680 you know, you mustn't allow the police to come to 275 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:32.960 your house. They'll just cause you aggravation. You know, once 276 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:34.920 they get a foot in your house, you mustn't let 277 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.400 them come to your house. I want you to phone 278 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:40.559 them back and go and meet them somewhere else. And 279 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:42.359 I thought, well, why would I want to do that. 280 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:47.640 Later that day, DC hi Andy Rowell received a phone 281 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:49.559 call from Reagan's associate. 282 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:50.759 I've got some information about Neil Chohan. 283 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.720 William Halsey claimed he'd recently spoken to Neil Chohan and 284 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:56.759 that the missing businessman was still in the UK. 285 00:18:58.680 --> 00:18:59.839 I don't know if he told me he's on the 286 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.359 Mister Hauntsey had told me that he was going to 287 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:07.079 meet with mister Chohan in Newport in Wales by the 288 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:11.000 Passport office to supply him with stolen passports. So what 289 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:13.279 he was saying to us was is that he was 290 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:16.759 happy to deliver mister Chohan into our hands. 291 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:20.680 And then what happened was that got a phone call 292 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:23.319 from Dr Ral saying listen, thank you very much, Blinda, 293 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:25.759 but we won't be coming to see you today. We 294 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:29.440 have other information and in fact we probably won't need 295 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:34.440 to come and see you at all. Reagan then rang 296 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.000 me up, obviously to check to make sure that the 297 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.039 police had canceled their meeting, and he seemed to know 298 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:42.160 that they had and I said, yes, they're not coming. 299 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:44.160 He said, yes, I know. They're going to go to 300 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.839 Wales and arrest Neil Chohan. So that was the end 301 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:49.119 of her. 302 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:56.960 The meeting with Chohan was due to take place on 303 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:01.880 Easter Monday, but over the weekend, Belinda received an unexpected 304 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:04.599 visit from Reagan. Harnsey and Greece. 305 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:12.720 Reagan said, I'm going to do the lane by your stables, 306 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:16.880 which actually did need graveling, and that would have been 307 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.400 a great place for the gravel. So I thought, well, okay. 308 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:25.079 So when a digger arrived, I wasn't. It didn't surprise 309 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:26.880 me because I thought, oh, they're going to come and 310 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:35.079 grade the lane. And it was a Saturday, and I 311 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.519 took the kids into town and I let them get 312 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:38.000 on with it. 313 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.880 Two days later, detectives traveled to the spot where Harnsey 314 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:54.880 said he was planning to meet Chohan. 315 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.599 In Newport where the passport of this is quite an 316 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:03.440 iconic bronze statue of a pig, and that's where Haunsey 317 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.559 said that he would bring mister Chowhan to notice. On 318 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:09.559 the day in question, he in fact turned up with 319 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.599 mister Reagan as well, and the pair of them stood 320 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:18.960 there for some moments. They then enacted receiving a phone 321 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:24.200 call and a text, and then made it plainly obvious 322 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.400 through their body language that something had gone wrong with 323 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:31.839 the arrangement, and they explained they'd received a phone call 324 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:35.279 from someone saying we know you've told the police. We're 325 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:39.279 friends of Nil's or Annul Chohans. The deals Off. 326 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:44.400 Police traced the calls, but only to an unregistered phone. 327 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:47.960 They were no closer to finding Neil Chohan, and all 328 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:50.200 they knew for certain was that they had been led 329 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:51.440 on a wild goose chase. 330 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.400 I don't think personally he was having a swipe at 331 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:59.960 the police and the sort of the subtle choke about pigs. 332 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.319 I hope not. 333 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:07.000 Anyway, While Reagan returned to work at SIBA, the police 334 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.000 reverted to their original plan and called in Belinda Brewin 335 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:10.720 for questioning. 336 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:13.599 D I Raoul said to me, I want to have 337 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:17.079 a full and frank discussion with you. And as I 338 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:19.440 was leaving, Reagan said to me, listen, Belinda, if the 339 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.880 police ask you what I was doing on your land, 340 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.519 he said, you're to tell. He said, just tell them 341 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.240 that I was helping you with your water system. I 342 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:32.559 thought that was very odd. I mean, he'd said he'd 343 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:34.480 look at it, but no work had been done on it, 344 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:38.799 and I just thought it was odd. When I went 345 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:40.720 to meet the police, they said to me, what do 346 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:42.240 you think has happened? And I said, well, I don't 347 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:44.240 really know. I said, I've told you everything that I know, 348 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:48.480 and he said is there anything else that you think 349 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:51.880 is odd? And I said, well, when I was leaving today, 350 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.200 Reagan asked me not. It said that if you were 351 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:59.279 to ask what he was doing on my land, I 352 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:02.839 was to say he'd been working on my water system. 353 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:05.480 And they said, well, what was he doing? And I 354 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:08.920 said he'd dug a drainage ditch. And the two of 355 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.000 them looked at each other and said he did what. 356 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:20.480 Detectives rushed to Tibetan, convinced that a gruesome discovery awaited 357 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:31.880 them on Belinda's farm. 358 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:38.240 We exhumed the dig site painstaking fingertip forensic examination using 359 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.640 highly trained forensic archaeologists and pathologists. 360 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:47.240 The murder squad spent the next five days digging in 361 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:50.759 Belinda's field, but the bodies they had expected to find 362 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:58.920 were nowhere to be seen. In April two thousand and three, 363 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:01.440 police had been so watching for the Chowan family for 364 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:05.359 over two months, but they'd been looking in the wrong place. 365 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:11.599 We planned to go out for an evening's canoe in 366 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:16.079 nice quite a day, nice calm, see pleasantly warm time 367 00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:20.440 of year. Yeah, it's an enjoyable evening that we decided 368 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:21.640 to venture out further than what we. 369 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:22.359 Know we would do. 370 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:32.559 After a short while, I noticed on the floating in 371 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:38.480 the sea it appeared to be three floating objects, which 372 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:43.599 at a distance was unusual, you. 373 00:24:43.559 --> 00:24:45.839 Know, as we were sort of just canoeing around looking about, 374 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.960 or I hadn't noticed something, but I just totally discarded it. 375 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:53.119 It wasn't until he sort of shouted body at me. 376 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:54.640 I was just like what. 377 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:01.440 As I approached them, realize that he. 378 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:05.920 Was obviously our body, a large body because it was oversized, 379 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:09.440 somewhat inflated, but the feet were floating out of the 380 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:13.839 water and the torso the head was face downwards in 381 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:14.279 the water. 382 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.839 He got me to go in call up nine ninety nine. 383 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:32.279 I'll determine to stay with the body, come what may. 384 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:36.599 But I did expect the rescue service would have been 385 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:41.640 there sooner rather than later. It mightn't have been in 386 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:46.720 the water cano in in the dark for nely three hours. 387 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.359 He does get a bit unnerving. You can't ignore a body. 388 00:25:52.400 --> 00:26:00.079 Since you find a body, just say it's there. I 389 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.079 guess I think I can still see the body flats on. 390 00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:16.440 The body was taken to a mortuary in Bournemouth, but 391 00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:18.880 it would be almost a week before it was identified 392 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:21.640 as that of missing businessman Neil Chowman. 393 00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:28.240 I went to Bournemouth and saw the body. The first 394 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:33.720 time I had a look on Neil's face. I could 395 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:40.839 I could see that he suffered a tragic debt. Here 396 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.440 was he suffered a violent debt. 397 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:49.640 He had received a blunt drawn ra injury to the 398 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:53.160 back of his head. He had had a packing tape 399 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:59.279 wound round his mouth, but the main blow to the head, 400 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:04.480 followed by a subsequent suffocation, is the likely cause of 401 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:05.440