Accused double murderer Benjamin Laing told police

Accused double murderer Benjamin Laing told police he was
forced to bury the bodies of Matthew and Alison Manwaring by a
terrorist organisation, the Old Bailey heard.

In an interview at Pentonville jail, Laing, 25, said he was
terrrified of the Fijian Freedon Fighters after he worked as a
gun-runner for them.

And he even claimed they were responsible for the death of
Motorcycle News reporter Mr Peter Bolt in March 1992 – a death
believed to be an accident.

Laing’s bizarre account emerged when he called police into
his cell shortly after a visit from his relatives on May 2 last
year.

He had previously denied having anything to do with the
murders of Alison, 24, and her 62-year-old father.

But after checking detectives for recording devices he
said: ‘Those people are dead.

I didn’t kill them.

‘I will tell you who did it.

I am more afraid of them
than I am of you.

‘I have seen the bodies, where they were put and where
they are now.

‘
Laing added: ‘I will tell you where the bodies are but
you must understand I am frightened for myself and for my
family.

‘
He then told of the Fijian Freedom Fighters and metioned
a man called Mr Mohammed Kahan.

‘I worked for him.

I moved guns for them.

They have
killed people,’ he alleged.

‘Peter Bolt of Northamptonshire was killed on the A34.

He was 34.

He drove into the back of a van.

It was reported
that it was an accident but it was murder.

‘
Laing continued: ‘I wanted to get out the organisation
but they wouldn’t let me.

‘
He said that the group must have been following him
when he went to buy Mark Manwaring’s car from his family.

‘I received a call to meet them at 2pm at Gants Hill,’
claimed Laing.

‘I hired a white Astra and met them there.

There were
four men in a blue car.

‘Three of them got out the car and into my car.

They
showed me some plastic bags.

The bags were put into the
Astra.

‘
The bags contained the dismembered bodies of Alison
and her father, claimed Laing.

Laing said he followed the blue car in his Astra,
which drove to his girlfriend’s home in Greening Street,
Abbeywood.

He said the bodies were left in the car overnight
and the following day the three men came back and put the
bags in his girlfriend’s hallway.

‘We went out into the garden dug a hole and buried them
in the hole,’ claimed Laing.

Police later went to the wasteland where Laing claimed
he met the group.

Detectives discovered a knife there and later found a
Mohammed Kahan did have links with the group.

But Mr Bolt’s widow Dawn had never heard of the group
and as far as she was concerned neither had her husband.

Laing of East Ham Manor Way, Beckton denies murdering
the Manwarings at their home in Aldersey Gardens, Barking
on April 23 last year.

The trial continues.

ENDS