When Ben Crawford was told his father was dying and he should fly home from Japan to say goodbye, he refused. “What was I going to do, strangle him?”

Ben had idolised his dad. “He was a good father and my best mate.” Yet by 2017, the relationship was over and for good reason.

Ron Crawford, a respected pharmacist, hired a professional underworld hitman to kill his wife, Anne Louise Crawford, and got away with it.

For 18 years Ben “grew up believing my mother was killed in a tragic accident and my father was being blackmailed”.

By the time he became a parent, and as a qualified lawyer, he began asking questions his father couldn’t answer. As an…

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