
Three British career criminals, convicted last week for the 2003 murder of NRI businessman, Amarjit Chohan and four of his family members, were sentenced on Tuesday to life imprisonment.
Kenneth Regan 55, a British gangland boss, and his accomplice William Horncy 52, murdered freight millionaire Chohan so that Regan could take over his company and use it as a front for drug-running. Regan lured Chohan to a meeting near Stonehenge, where he tortured him into signing blank sheets of paper on which he later typed letters saying the freight boss had fled the country and was handing over his pound;5 mn company to him.
However, Regan realised he would have to kill the entire family to make the story look credible. In the cover-up attempt, Regan and Horncy also murdered Chohan8217;s 25-year-old wife, Nancy, their two infant sons, Devinder and Ravinder, and Nancy8217;s mother, 51-year-old Charanjit Kaur.
Passing the sentence, judge Sir Stephen Mitchell at the Old Bailey Court imposed a life sentence on the two men, telling them this meant they had 8216;8216;no prospect of release8217;8217;.
Another accomplice, Peter Rees 39, was sentenced to life for Chohan8217;s murder. He was also convicted of assisting an offender, but cleared of the other four murder charges.
Regan and Horncy were also sentenced to 12 years on a charge of wrongful imprisonment to be served concurrently.