A British court on Friday found two Englishmen guilty of murdering an non resident Indian millionaire and his entire family in order to take over his freight company.
After an eight-month trial, Kenneth Regan and his accomplice William Horncy were convicted in London's Old Bailey court of murdering 46-year-old NRI businessman Amarjit Chohan, his wife Nancy (25), their two sons -- Devinder (18 months) and Ravinder (2 months) -- and Chohan's mother-in-law Chiranjit Kaur (51).
The bodies of Chohan, his wife and mother-in-law were washed up on the south coast in 2003. The bodies of Devinder and Ravinder have not been found so far.
A third accused, Peter Rees, 39, of Rowlands Castle, Hampshire, was found guilty of murdering Chohan, but cleared of four other murder charges. Rees was also convicted of assisting an offender.
According to the judgement, 55-year-old Regan of Wilton, a heavy vehicle driver at Chohan's firm, convicted drug dealer and police informant, planned to take over Chohan's successful freight company in Southall, West London, to use it as a front for importing drugs.
He wanted to make people think that Chohan, who ran CIBA Freight, a company importing and exporting fruits with a 5-million-pound turnover, had given up his business and gone abroad voluntarily, he told the court.
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