Kenneth Regan & William Horncy

with Peter Rees

1997, Kenneth Regan originally named Kenneth Avery, and born in 1953, was a heroin smuggler, living the high life. He wore tailor made clothes, drove a Mercedes, and gave friends  expensive Cartier watches, he earned the nickname 'Captain Cash'.

1998, Regan was arrested as part of a major police drug offensive, called 'Operation Bromley', he was caught with 30kg of top grade heroin and wads of cash in the boot of his car.

He was also charged with grievous bodily harm against a policewoman who he ran over with his car when trying to escape, he was jailed for 20 years.
However, he turned super-grass, giving police many details about fellow drug smugglers.
As a consequence of his cooperation his sentence was reduced to 8-years,he served only four years in prison before being released.

July 2002, Once out of prison he had to hide away, as there were various gangland contracts out on his life. He changed his name, going from Avery to Regan by deed-poll,  Regan was reduced to living with his elderly father in a bungalow in Wiltshire and driving around in a second-hand Peugeot 206. He missed the high life, and hatched a plan to steal a business

January 2003, Regan tried to organise a £3m deal involving land near Heathrow airport which Amarjit Chohan had an option to buy. claiming he had Dutch backers who wanted to buy the firm, he became a regular visitor at the offices.

When this failed, Regan began to target Mr Chohan's haulage company Ciba Freight, which was near London's Heathrow airport.
Amarjit Chohan, a multi-millionaire had made his money in drug dealing and had served time in prison as well.

13th February 2003, Mr Chohan was invited to a business meeting at Stonehenge and told his workforce: ‘I’m off to do a deal.’. He was never seen alive again.
He was then abducted by Kenneth Regan, William Horncy and Peter Rees and taken back to Regan's father's home in Forge close, Wilton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he was bound and tortured. 

The businessman was gagged, forced to record voice messages for his family and  to sign a letter handing over his entire business to Ken Regan. 

Regan had planned to make people think Mr Chohan had given up his freight business and gone abroad voluntarily, with his family.

Unknown to Regan at the time, Mr Chohan had managed to write a note, dated the 12th February, the note written to Regan, was only found after the body of Anarjit Chohan was found, this proved to be a piece of incriminating evidence against Regan at his subsequent trial.

15th February 2003, With Peter Rees guarding Mr Chohan in Salisbury, Regan and Horncy travelled to London, and talked their way into Mr Chohan's family home in Hounslow.
They killed his 24-year-old wife Nancy, as well as killing their young sons Ravinder aged  18-months, and 8-week old Devinder. They also killed Nancy's mother, 51-year-old Charanjit Kaur. They then hired a van, and removed all the bodies to the West Country.

17th February 2003, Regan arrived at Mr Chohan's company - CIBA Freight with a handwritten letter from Mr Chohan and a power of attorney for the running of the company, the employees became very suspicious.
 
19th February 2003, A close friend of Regan's, was Belinda Brewin. Belinda aged-43, was the ex PR executive and former best friend of Paula Yates, the late wife of Bob Geldolf.
Regan was besotted with Belinda and wanted the glamorous divorcee to be the front for the takeover of CIBA Freight.
Coincidentally, she had 50-acres of land at Great Coleford House at Stoodleigh near Tiverton in Devon – a perfect place to bury a body.
She was unwittingly manipulated into helping out.  Unknown to her Regan used her 50 acre estate, to secretly bury the five bodies of the Chohan family.

March 2003, pressure from Chohan family members about the families disappearance mounted, and the case was referred to Scotland Yard.

19th April 2003,  (Easter Saturday):  Regan goes into a state of panic by the progress of the police investigation, fearing they will soon learn of the farm in Devon, he returns with Horncy and Rees and digs up the five bodies.
Ms. Brewin became suspicious, she arrived back at the farm in Devon and found Regan, Horncy and Rees working on a drainage ditch in her field.

20th April 2003, The men then buy a boat and dump all the bodies in the English channel.

29th April 2003, Mr Chohan's body was found floating in the sea near Bournemouth pier. When his body was found, it was obvious he had been restrained. He had been gagged with packing tape. Also a urine sample showed an unusually high level of gammahydroxybutyrate - a drug more commonly known as GHB, which can be used as a sedative, and known colloquially as a 'Date rape' drug.

That night, Scotland yard detectives arrive in Devon to interview Belinda Brewin.

Regan and Horncy, realisied the net was closing in on them and decided to flee by ferry to France. They then travelled to Spain. Peter Rees also goes on the run, hiding out with a friend in Gloucestershire.

14th May 2003, Peter Rees is arrested in a pub in Coleford in the Forest of Dean.

15th July 2003,  Nancy Chohan's body was recovered in the same area as her husband, near Bournemouth pier.

2nd August 2003, Regan had been on the run, but police caught up with him, they tracked him from Spain, and arrested him on a campsite in Belgium.
 
7th September 2003, the body of Amarjit Choan's monther-in-law, 51-year-old Charanjit Kaur was found floating in a bay off the Isle Of Wight. The bodies of the two boys have never been recovered

September 2003, Horncy gives himself up to police in Dover.

8th November 2004, All three men go on trial for murder and kidnapping.

Friday 1st  July 2005, Regan and Horncy are convicted of five murders. Rees is convicted of Mr Chohan's murder and of assisting an offender, but cleared of the other four murder charges

Tuesday 5th July 2005, sentencing the three men to life imprisonment, the judge, Sir Stephen Mitchell, told Regan and Horncy they should never be released and Rees will have to serve at least 23 years in prison.
The murder investigation, thought to be the longest involving the Metropolitan police, at the time, cost more than £10m

Regan and Horncy are on the Home Office list of 'Whole life tariff' prisoners; NEVER to be released click here >>

30 June 2016, According to a police enquiry, Kenneth Regan and William Horncy are believed to have been "directly involved" in the disappearance of Michael Schallamach.

Mr Schallamach, aged-53, from Southampton, went missing in April 1992.

Police investigations are on-going.

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