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Close your eyes. Listen to Monday.com feel the sensation of an AI work platform so flexible and intuitive it feels like it was built just for you. Now open your eyes, go to Monday.com, start for free and finally breathe. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Do you ever think about switching insurance companies to see if you could save some cash? Progressive makes it easy to see if you could save when you bundle your home and auto policies. Try it@progressive.com Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Potential savings will vary. Not available in all states. From the Times and Sunday Times this is the story. I'm Gabriel Pogrend. On a cold November night in 2019, 19 year old Zach Brettler jumped to his death from the balcony of a luxury apartment on the south bank of the Thames, directly opposite to MI6 headquarters. Zach was a smart, affable young man from a loving family who had got mixed up with some very dangerous people. After an investigation in which police repeatedly returned to the idea that he had killed him, they failed to bring any charges. But five years later, the story reached one of the great reporters of our time, Patrick Radden.
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Keith I think that they have an impulse to say, okay, young boy goes off the balcony, looks like he jumps. So what is that? Well, that's a suicide. I would argue that what happened to Zach Brettler falls in a kind of zone in between those two. It's something more ambig.
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What he found suggests a more haunting reality. Zach didn't jump to die, but perhaps to live. In a devastating New Yorker expose, a Patrick dismantled the Metropolitan Police's narrative exposing the catalog of catastrophic failings.
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I don't believe he committed suicide. I didn't believe that. Actually. By the time I finished my article, after more than a year of additional reporting, I'm even more convinced.
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Now that investigation is the subject of his latest book, London Falling. I knew Zach not well, but well enough to remember him as a little boy, and I'm privileged to have come to know his family. I myself investigated this case for the Sunday Times and what I found was beyond anything I could have imagined. In this two part podcast, we take a forensic look into the case, now immortalized in Patrick's book, a tale of false identities, police incompetence, and at its heart, her family's search for the truth. The story today London Falling what really Happened to Zach? Brett Part 1 the. My name is Gabriel Pogrand. I am the Whitehall Editor at the Sunday Times. This episode is a little unusual for me for two reasons. One is I Am interviewing another journalist, which is something I don't do very often. Two, I am interviewing that journalist about a story with which I have a slight personal connection and a slight professional connection, because I know the family at the heart of it and I have done some reporting on it. With me today is Patrick Rudden Keefe, who has written a book, London Falling Further to a New Yorker article he wrote about some years ago. It examines the life and death of a 19 year old by the name of Zach Bretzler. Patrick, whose work will be very well known to many of our listeners, tends to take on meaty subject matter, from the troubles to the Sackler family, to the summit of the art world to the underworld of crime. And in this instance, this story is about, yes, the death of Zack, but also about so much more. Patrick, welcome. How was it that you originally alighted on this story and what in principle compelled you about it? Because for reasons you might examine, it had not so much as graced a single British newspaper at the point that you discovered it?
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Yeah, I mean, I should start by saying I'm really delighted to be talking with you, and you in particular, Gabriel, as you mentioned, because of your connections, you know, more than one connection to this story. I was living in London in the summer of 2023. I was making a television series based on my book say Nothing. And I was quite involved with that series as a producer. And so I had actually moved my family over the production Goddess of Flat in Notting Hill. And I would go to set every day. I was on set one day and met a man, just kind of fell into conversation with a man who was a visitor to the set. He was a guest of the director. His name was Andrew Fingrit. He's a lawyer in London. And it was a strange conversation. We were just kind of idly chatting and Andrew's Jewish and he was talking about the Jewish community in London and how it's different from the Jewish community in New York. And I just casually mentioned that there's an old family friend of mine who is a rabbi in London. Me mentioning that name triggered something with Andrew because he then proceeded to say to me, you know, there's a family that I know here in London who have had this terrible experience. They lost a son in 2019 under quite mysterious circumstances. After he died, they found out that he had had this whole secret life that they hadn't known about as a teenager, that he had been moving around London pretending that he was the son of a Russian oligarch. And it's interesting because me casually mentioning this Rabbi Julia Neuberger to Andrew, that sort of triggered something with him. And what it was was that Julian Uyberger had actually been the rabbi for Zach Brettler. She had bar mitzvahed him. And so that was the kind of trigger. But there was also a trigger for me, which is that when he mentioned the oligarchs in London. I had quite recently written an essay for the New Yorker after the invasion of Ukraine about the awkward situation in which London found itself because the city had been so hospitable when it came to dodgy Russian money going back two decades. And there were all of these kind of Putin aligned cronies of the Kremlin who'd found a very warm welcome in London. And that suddenly was kind of thrown into rather stark relief by the invasion of Ukraine. So it was a kind of broader issue I'd been thinking about. That casual conversation gave way to a meeting with the Brettlers. We were talking off the record. They weren't sure they wanted to go public, and I guess this is probably something we'll talk about. But they had been, I think, careful to keep the story out of the press up to that point. But they were just reaching a point where they were starting to think that it might make sense to go public. And so there are kind of coincidences all the way down in this story. And that was yet another that at the point where they were starting to wonder about that I happened to meet this guy that they knew.
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I imagine that as you started learning more, you're probably more and more compelled because there are three extraordinary protagonists at the heart of this tale. And I think we ought to start with Zack. I knew Zack because my brother was friends with him, had been at West London Synagogue with him, and I know the wonderful Brett Le family. But I wondered if you could begin by giving us a flavor of who he was and also the world in which he grew up.
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Zach was born in 2000, the second son of Matthew and Rachelle Brettler. He grew up in Maida Vale. His family was quite comfortable, financially speaking. His father works in finance. Relle is a freelance journalist. He writes about craft and design. And he had an older brother, Joe. His family was quite close knit, I would say both his immediate family and his extended family dispersed throughout London. He was kind of a bright, funny, unpredictable, quirky kid. He had a kind of, I like to think a sort of slightly jazzy style of conversation. There was a. There was a kind of fun sort of improv when it came to talking with him. Conversations could go off in kind of unpredictable directions, but it was something that people were drawn to, that there was a kind of slightly fizzy quality to his Persona. He had this experience when he was young, which is that Joe had gotten into university, college, school, UCs, and I think the whole family sort of took it for granted that Zach would follow him. And when Zach took the exam to get in and did the interview, he was denied a place. And that ends up being kind of a significant moment for him. He really felt that rejection. He ended up reapplying and didn't get in again. And he ended up at Mill Hill School on the northern outskirts of the city. And he shows up there when he's 13 years old. Initially he's a day student. He ended up becoming a boarding student at Mill Hill. He encountered a different kind of person than the sorts of people he'd grown up with. There was a kind of concentration of international kids and the sort of children of plutocrats at this school. And Zach, who, again I should emphasize, came from a very comfortable background, I think, felt a sense of inadequacy in the presence of these kids who just didn't have a care in the world and, you know, kind of partied at swank hotels on the weekend and dressed in designer clothes. There was a sort of ostentation to the wealth of some of his classmates, which he was really transfixed by at an early age. And so, you know, talking with his family, talking with friends of his at the time, what I learned was that he was quite seduced, I think, as a teenager by a certain kind of blingy show offy wealth that was on display among his classmates.
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I think the story of how then Zack goes from that feeling, as you characterized it, of inadequacy to masquerading as the son of the oligarch is a story about truth, about psychology, about youth, about lots of different things. But could you give us, in a sort of abbreviated sense of, well, how he did go from that, from being a teenager at Mill Hill to gallivanting around private members clubs in Mayfair as Zachary Ismailov?
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I think it happened gradually and not all at once, talking to lots and lots of people who knew Zach throughout his life. To go back to that idea of kind of jazzy improv in conversation. He was what in the US we would call a cut up. He was always sort of telling jokes and doing riffs and doing bits, almost like a standup comic. There's a story that I heard about him when he was really young, when where a girl asked him at some party, can you read this? There was something. And she said, could you read this? And he couldn't read at that point. But very casually, Zach, you know, who was all of five years old, said, oh, I don't have my glasses. And, you know, he didn't wear glasses. And so he had a kind of tendency to sort of try on these lines. And what I learned is that actually, as soon as he showed up at Mill Hill, he started telling some students things that were not true about his biography. He claimed to some kids that his mother was dead, which I think he did, because it was actually a way to foster intimacy and close relationships. You know, that he sort of learned that you could get pity from a stranger and that that could bring you closer with them quite quickly. He told other kids that his father was an arms dealer, which Matthew brother, as you will know, knowing Matthew Gabriel, is about as far as you could get from an arms dealer.
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I've seen no evidence of that today.
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Indeed. And it was kind of a comical thing among his friends. You know, he claimed that his family drove a pair of Range Rovers. And then at one point, I spoke to one of his friends who had to go and play doubles in a tennis tournament with him. And Matthew was driving and. And Matthew drove a Mazda. And so before he showed up, you know, Zach said to the friend, oh, you've got to understand, my dad's Range Rovers are in the shop. They're getting repaired. And eventually what happened was that he, I think, took that kind of style of conversation where you're sort of. You're trying out a line and seeing how it goes over, riffing on things. And he started to tell people that he was the son of a Russian oligarch, that he was a very wealthy kid who lived at One Hyde park, the extremely expensive development in Knightsbridge. And he kind of developed this whole story. And I should say, I don't believe that Zach was clinically delusional. I think he was very opportunistic in how he told these stories. And he was very careful only to tell these kind of fabulous tales to people who he thought he could, you know, he could persuade, who would buy it.
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I have, by dint of my own personal proximity, I have sympathy for Zach, but I also think anybody would, because he was a child and he was, as you say, telling stories to. In gender intimacy, as well as possibly financial advantage. And we can come onto that. I want to just introduce this sort of next character in this story, and he's of the three characters, Zack becomes entangled with this man first, and he's a man by the name of Akbar Shamji. Shamji was a man with his own tenuous relationship with the truth, one which is slightly less easy to comprehend. So let's introduce Akbar Shamji.
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When Zak meets Akbar, Zak is pretending that he's the son of a Russian oligarch, that his father is a billionaire, that he stands to inherit hundreds of millions of pounds. And actually, it was further a part of Zack's ruse that he was looking to make investments for the family, and he meets Akbar. And the Akbar who he meets is this very elegant, handsome, charismatic guy in his 40s who lives a very glamorous life. He lives in an expensive apartment on Mount street in Mayfair. He has an office on Berkeley Square. He's involved in various types of investment. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. He is married to a fashion designer, a woman named Daniela Carnuts, who has a kind of high end brand that designs elegant gowns for women, many of them famous women, you know, multiple members of the royal family, women like Gwyneth Paltrow and Michelle Obama are photographed in these safiyya gowns. That's the guy that Zach meets. Now, behind the scenes, it's a bit more complicated. Akbar comes from a very wealthy family. His father was one of the richest men in Uganda. And when Akbar was a baby, IDI Amin expelled all of the Ugandan Asians, the South Asian population from Uganda. So the family arrives in London in the early 1970s, and Akbar grows up very English, but in this very prosperous immigrant family. And his father is kind of an outsized figure, somebody who makes a great fortune and then kind of loses it and actually in for complicated reasons, ends up in prison. And it turns out that Akbar himself has a business history that's extremely checkered. But he's very good at showing up in a new situation, kind of forever reinventing himself. And so one of the kind of cornerstone ironies of this story is that you get these two guys who meet fatefully. Zach Brettler, who was 18 at the time, and Akbar Shamji, who's in his 40s. But they're both engaged in a kind of a con. So each person meets the other and sort of thinks that he's one thing, when in fact he's something else altogether.
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Coming up, a man enters the story that would change things entirely. A London gangster known colloquially as Indian Dave. It is his balcony that Zach would eventually jump from. But why? And what were the events leading up to that fateful night. We'll have more in a moment.
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Up until this point. The sort of terrain that this story takes place on is firstly, the Anglo Jewish community in Northwest London and then secondly Mayfair, Mount Street, Hartford street, private members clubs. I think they had met at one SOT's institution. I think Akbar Shamji had kind of posed as a possible friend, mentor. I can help you. He probably believed he stood to gain from Zack's money, which Zack said would be coming down the track in due course, but was being held up owing to some legal proceedings connected to his parents. Doesn't really matter for now. The point was that Shamji thought that he could gain something from Zack, and Zack thought that he could gain something from Shamji because he was sort of denizen, a habitue of the Mayfair world. And the point where there's a sort of really scary and sinister new dimension to it is the entry of Virinder Sharma, who we'll call Indian Dave, because that was the way he was referred to in the criminal underworld. And I think that this story, when he enters it, becomes more than a story of the fabulous wealth and the concentration of it in Mayfair, in London, in the noughties and onwards. It becomes about the interaction of that world and the criminal underworld. So who is Indian Dave?
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What happens is that Zach at a certain point starts saying that he's homeless, that he needs a place to live. It's all part of this kind of complicated story about his family and why it is that he doesn't have the inheritance money that he supposedly was going to come through with. And so he's got this whole tale about his mother living in Dubai and there's a clash between the parents and he's been kicked out of one Hyde Park. And so Akbar, believing this, says, listen, I have a friend who lives in this rather grand apartment in a building called Riverwalk, a luxury building, a new development built in about 2016, just across from MI6 headquarters, next to Vauxhall Bridge, the north side of the Thames. And he says, my friend Varinder Sharma lives there in this big apartment and he could maybe give you a place to stay. And he introduces Zack to Verinder, and Zack ends up moving into the apartment of this guy, Virinder Sharma. I don't know exactly what Akbar told Zach in the early going, but the truth is that this guy, Varinder Sharma, was better known in London's underworld as Indian Dave, and that he was a gangster. A really vicious, violent, murderous gangster who had been involved in all kinds of rackets going back to the 1990s. Somebody who was involved in extortion in a very prominent murder, which it looks like he ordered in a drive by shooting that happened in Hertfordshire in 2003.
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The first with an AK47 in the British Isles, if I'm not mistaken.
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Right? A fully automatic machine gun. First time one had been used. A really terrifying episode. Indian Dave, as he was known, was this kind of fascinating guy. Because he actually plugged into the northwest Jewish London community that you talked about in that he had made friends in various places. And he was a little bit of a lender of last resort. He was somebody who could kind of get people cash if they needed it. But he was also in the debt collection business. And so he was the guy, as I learned in my reporting, who would show up if you owed money and you know, in some cases dangle you off a building or threaten you with physical violence or threaten your family. And he lived this kind of comfortable lifestyle. He's very under the radar. There was almost nothing about him on the Internet when I started looking into this, and I'm sure for Zach as well. But I should say, even if Akbar disclosed to Zack that his friend was a gangster, I think that's the kind of detail that would have, it might have frightened Zack a bit, but it would have appealed to him as well because Zach had a fascination with the underworld. He loved gangster films. That kind of whiff of danger. I think to his excitable 18 year old mind, you know, it wouldn't have been the kind of thing that would make him run in the opposite direction necessarily. And so in a way that his parents had no understanding of, they thought that he was living not in the same apartment as this guy, but actually in another apartment in the building that he owned. And they also thought that Varinder Sharma, remember I said there's nothing on the Internet about him, so they couldn't really learn about him. Uzak had told them, oh, he's an executive, he's a rubber tycoon, he works for Pirelli Rubber. So that was their understanding when he moved into this building in Pimlico. But they were horrified later to learn that their son had actually been sharing an apartment, coke cohabiting with this really murderous, just a sort of classic London villain, Indian Dave.
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I think I, in the course of my reporting on this story, far more limited than yours, obviously, but I spoke to somebody, he gave me a little vignette about Indian Dave, which was that he had a habit of turning up at restaurants in St. John's Wood, a very well heeled corner of northwest London. And with charm laced with extreme menace, he would, in a kind of classic gangster tactic, inform people that he was happy to provide them with security. One of those people who didn't need to specify what the consequences would be of not participating in that proposed arrangement. So you have three people who are all using each other, who are all quite dexterous in dealing with the other's demographic and whose paths become entwined. And I think the kind of crescendo or the peroration of the story and the point where you have trained all of your journalistic expertise and reporting energy, or at least the focal point of the story, is the night of Zach's death, by which time Indian Dave, from the texts that you obtained and reported on for the New Yorker, was becoming increasingly agitated and frustrated because he's not a charity. He had not availed Zach of his living quarters at Riverwalk for purely benevolent reasons. He, like Shamji, had initially believed that he stood to gain from a slice of Zach's family wealth. And when that was not forthcoming, he started to become very, very angry. And it's very difficult to condense what happens on that night. But can you give us an understanding of what your conclusions were as to what happened on the night at the point that you wrote your first piece of journalism about this, which was your piece in the New Yorker?
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We know that Zach left the balcony on that night and died in the river. We know that he wasn't pushed, that he jumped. There is surveillance footage. This is kind of how my book starts. There is surveillance footage from the MI6 building that shows him on the balcony alone jumping. We also know that Indian Dave was in the flat at the point where he jumped, and that Akbar Shamji had been in there as well until quite recently, and then actually came back into the flat after he jumped. And so there's a lot of activity, activity with these two men. We know that when Zach dies, both of those men say nothing to the police. They make no effort to sound the alarm. They don't call the authorities. As far as Matthew and Rochelle were concerned, Zach had gone missing. They end up talking with Akbar and Indian Dave, who tell them he left the flat. And they have a whole kind of complicated story where they claim that he'd become a drug addict and he was go. He had gone off to score drugs. Though I think there's very solid evidence that both men knew he was dead at that point, and they just didn't tell the family. When the police finally get involved, and I should say a big part of this story is about the failures of the Metropolitan Police. In this case, when the police finally get involved, it takes days before they figure out what exactly had happened, even that there was a boy named Zach Bredler who had died in the river days before. They get into Indian Dave's apartment and start talking to people, I think that they have an impulse to say, okay, young boy on the balcony of a building goes off. The balcony looks like he jumps. So what is that? Well, that's a suicide, so we're gonna put it in that box. There might be a kind of initial impulse to say, well, maybe it was a murder. Could it have been a murder? But at the point where they obtain this footage showing that there's nobody actively pushing, like bodily pushing Zach off the balcony, the prospect of a kind of cut and dried, straightforward murder case becomes more difficult for. For them, I would argue that what happened to Zach Brettler falls in a kind of zone in between those two. It's something more ambiguous. And I don't believe he committed suicide. I didn't believe that. Actually, by the time I finished my article, and I, after more than a year of additional reporting, I'm even more convinced. I will say that part of this story, though, is about the kind of failure of imagination on the part of the police to chase that down, to sort of solve that mystery and figure out what that was.
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You mentioned the fact that detectives, clearly, we know now from transcripts of interviews and such like, pursued the notion that he committed suicide, but they didn't pursue all these other details, which, to a journalist's eye, are utterly unignorable. Among them, blood spatters within the apartment, fingerprints on the glass exterior to the balcony, profound inconsistencies in Akbar Shamji's own story as to what he had or had not done on the night, and then an inconsistency between. Between Zach's injuries and the point at which he fell. And I suppose that's probably the question which. Whether this is a story of a cock up or a conspiracy or both is one of the questions that compelled me a lot. And I wondered where you have ended up on that story. And I wondered if you could also guide us just a little bit through the days of. After Zak's body had been discovered. In terms of what Shamji and Shamma said and what the police did before, it seems kind of giving up on the murder end of this inquiry.
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Initially, Shamji and Sharma had kind of held themselves out to the Brettlers as friends, as mentors to Zack. You know, we're as worried as you are. We want to bring him back. And one of the really extraordinary things for me as a reporter about this story is that the Brettlers, right from the moment before they even knew he was dead, but from the moment Zach went missing, would ask to record conversations, and they would record on their phones. And so those. Those conversations with Indian Dave and Akbar Shamji I have the recording. And similarly, when they started meeting with the police, they would say to the police, would you mind if we record this? And I have those recordings. And so, you know, initially, these guys sort of say, oh, we're very concerned. And they basically pre that Zach's still alive. It's extraordinary to think now the cruelty of this, but say, oh, we're gonna. We're gonna get him back, they say. And then when it emerges, the body is found and they kind of put it together and they realize both of them are arrested on suspicion of murder and questioned by the police. But Indian Dave, who, remember, is a kind of seasoned London gangster, he basically just says, no comment, no comment, no comment. He won't really answer any questions at all. And Akbar Chandri's the opposite. He's a big talker. He talks and talks and talks, but he lies to the police. And his story, in ways large and small, is kind of at odds with evidence that they've gathered from other places. And they know that he's lying, and yet they never really use that as leverage. And ultimately, neither of these men is. Is charged with murder.
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So with police failing to secure charges against either man and focusing on the notion that Zach had died by suicide, the Bretton are left with serious questions about what really happened on the night their son jumped and about the Metropolitan Police's handling of the case. Fast forward five years to 2024, and Patrick's article in the New Yorker uncovered serious fadings in the police's handling of the case.
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The police had obtained text messages and found that on the night that Zach died, when Akbar Shamji was in the apartment with Zach and Indian Dave, he was texting with a friend of his who happened to be in London and who he had plans to meet up with. And he said to this guy, at a certain point, he wasn't able to meet up. And he said, I'm heating up knives and clearing up blood.
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But what really happened, happened on the nights act died goes deeper than that. Tomorrow, together with my own Sunday Times investigation, Patrick Ren Keefe and I explore the other crucial evidence that police failed to properly examine. Evidence that calls into question both Akbar Shamji and Indian Day versions of the events. It's some of the most appalling police incompetence I've seen. That's tomorrow on the story. I've repeatedly approached Akbar Shanji for comment and repeatedly heard nothing. Indian Dave, meanwhile, died in 2020. The Met Police expressed sincere condolences with Zach Brettler's family. They said that when an unexpected death happens, there are policing protocols to follow and the investigation to Zach's death was led by an experienced detective. They added that the team worked hard to explore every possible hypothesis and that the case was also reviewed by specialist homicide detectives to ensure every line of inquiry had been exhausted. The producer and sound designer was was Dave Creasy. The executive producer was Kate Ford.
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