{"id":237960,"date":"2023-10-06T13:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=237960"},"modified":"2023-10-06T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:12:56","slug":"moment-ranting-killer-threatens-murder-victims-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/moment-ranting-killer-threatens-murder-victims-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment ranting killer threatens murder victim's brother"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is the moment when a killer, who murdered a former friend before dumping his partially burned body in a shallow grave, was caught on camera ranting and raving at his victim’s family while cops arrested him.<\/p>\n
Violent thug Amraj Poonia ambushed Mohammed Shah Subhani, 27, at R&J Plumbing in Hounslow, west London, on May 7, 2019.<\/p>\n
After entering the premises, Mr Subhani was killed and his body rolled up in a carpet to be transported to woodland where it was burnt and buried.<\/p>\n
Later the same day, Poonia ‘unashamedly’ went to the Subhani family home in Hounslow and acted as if nothing had happened, an Old Bailey jury was told.<\/p>\n
The case was initially treated as a missing persons inquiry before a murder investigation was launched and possible suspects identified.<\/p>\n
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Mohammed Shah Subhani was lured to Amraj Poonia’s family plumbing business where he was ambushed and murdered<\/p>\n
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Poonia, pictured, was caught on camera ranting and raving at his victim’s family as he was arrested<\/p>\n
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Mohammed Shah Subhani, known as Shah, was reported missing on May 7, 2019 when he failed to return to his home in Hounslow, west London<\/p>\n
The breakthrough came around six months later when an individual, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, walked into a police station, admitted to taking part in the disposal of Mr Subhani’s body and named his killer.<\/p>\n
Acting on the information, Mr Subhani’s badly decomposed body was found miles away in woodland in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n
The court was told that Mr Subhani was killed at the Poonia business after falling out over a kilo of cannabis that went missing after it was given to Amraj Poonia for safekeeping.<\/p>\n
But Poonia stole the drugs instead and staged a ‘theft’ of them from a car as a cover for this.<\/p>\n
Associate Mohanad Riad had recruited two local drug dealers to help stage the fake theft but suspicions erupted into incidents of violence in the weeks before the killing, jurors heard.<\/p>\n
The loss of the drugs left Mr Subhani in debt to a local drug dealer and believing Poonia to be responsible caused increasing animosity between the two.<\/p>\n
According to the Met Police, there were assaults against Poonia by the Subhani family and as a result and threats were made against them for retribution.<\/p>\n
Contact was made between Poonia and Mr Subhani and an agreement was made to meet at Poonia’s family plumbing business.<\/p>\n
Mr Subhani arrived at the industrial estate in Hounslow and shortly after entering the premises he was ambushed and murdered.<\/p>\n
Following Mr Subhani’s disappearance, his family reported him missing on May 7 and a full missing person investigation was started.<\/p>\n
The family attended Derby Road industrial estate to conduct their own CCTV enquiries on 13 May.<\/p>\n
Here they encountered Poonia and a fight ensued between him and the Subhani brothers.<\/p>\n
Because of the fight, police were called as Poonia had been seen on bus CCTV footage to be in possession of a large knife.<\/p>\n
Following the fight, a witness described how they had heard Amraj Poonia say to one of the brothers ‘I will kill you like I killed your brother’.<\/p>\n
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Pictured, detectives investigating disappearance and murder of Mohammed Shah Subhani<\/p>\n
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Mr Subhani’s remains were found in woodland between Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross, Buckinhamshire, shortly before Christmas 2019<\/p>\n
Poonia was arrested for the affray and, just after his arrest, was recorded on an officers’ body-worn video saying: ‘I’m telling you this on live camera (He then named one of Shah’s brothers). You pig rat, snitch, gangster wannabe, you’re dead, yeah.’<\/p>\n
Officers then conducted an extensive forensic search of the plumbing business and small samples of blood were located which matched that of Mr Subhani.<\/p>\n
The investigation was then passed on to a Homicide team of the Met’s Specialist Crime Command.<\/p>\n
At first, there was insufficient evidence to charge the suspects because they could not find Mr Subhani’s body.<\/p>\n
It was six months later that the breakthrough came when the unnamed person present at the burial site, and not involved in the murder, told the police where to find him.<\/p>\n
A post-mortem was unable to determine the cause of death, due to the loss of some of the remains, significantly, the hyoid bone.<\/p>\n
But the pathologist did comment that the circumstances of the burial indicated an ‘unnatural death’.<\/p>\n
Following an Old Bailey trial, Amraj Poonia, 28, aka Bigs, from Horley, was found guilty of murder and perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.<\/p>\n
His brother Raneel Poonia, 26, aka Ace, from Slough, was jailed for seven years for perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n
Riad, 23, known as Emz, from Hounslow, and Mahamud Ismail, 27, aka Skinny and Major, from Brentford, were found guilty of the same offence and jailed for two years and five-and-a-half years respectively.<\/p>\n
In victim impact statements, Mr Subhani’s family condemned the killers as ‘cowardly animals’.<\/p>\n
His sister Iqra Subhani said her brother had been robbed of his life ‘in the most cowardly and heinous way by his so-called friends’.<\/p>\n
Addressing the dock, she said: ‘Even after you brutally killed him, you did not spare him – you continued to torment him after he was dead.<\/p>\n
‘My brother had the spirit of a lion. But a lion can only do so much when he is ambushed by hyenas and that is what you cowardly animals did.’<\/p>\n
Mr Subhani’s father, Gul Subhani, described his son’s murder as ‘pure evil’, saying: ‘They disregarded his body like a piece of rubbish. He did not go there to fight. He was a lover, not a fighter.’<\/p>\n
The thought of his son’s body being rolled into a carpet and set alight ‘makes our skin crawl’, he said.<\/p>\n
He added: ‘This is an unending pain for all of us, a pain we will take to our grave.<\/p>\n
‘How can we have closure when we could not even have 100 per cent of our boy back?’<\/p>\n
Mr Subhani’s partner Thelma, who was pregnant with their child when he was killed, told the court: ‘He was my best friend and confidante all in one.’<\/p>\n
Following the convictions, Detective Chief Inspector Vicky Tunstall said: ‘Amraj Poonia is a dangerous individual and I have no doubt that the streets of west London are far safer now he, and his accomplices, have been convicted – I hope that this outcome and the diligent investigation that led to their conviction improves the trust that communities can have in the Metropolitan Police.’<\/p>\n