Revealed: The remaining hours of oligarch-obsessed public schoolboy

These are the ultimate hours of an oligarch-obsessed teenager who plunged to his demise from a luxurious tower block after spending an evening with a  gangster and a millionaire crypto businessman – because the Met comes beneath renewed strain to resolve the thriller. 

Zac Brettler, 19, plummeted from the fifth flooring house within the Riverwalk advanced on Millbank at 2.24am on Friday, November 29 – together with his fall caught on CCTV from the MI6 headquarters reverse. 

The public schoolboy had arrived on the flat at round 4pm the day earlier than with businessman and Tory donor’s son Akbar Shamji, 52. They then spent a number of hours contained in the property with its proprietor, gangster ‘Dave’ Sharma, 55. 

What occurred subsequent is unclear, however at 10.35pm, Shamji messaged a buddy saying ‘I’ve simply been heating up knives and clearing up blood’ earlier than warning them ‘s*** is about to go flawed’. 

At 1.45am, Shamji left Zac within the flat alone with Sharma. At 2.12am, the gangster phoned Shamji for 9 minutes, resulting in him turning his automotive round and going again to Riverwalk. He returned at 2.34am, round 10 minutes after Zac fell. 

At simply earlier than 3am, CCTV footage confirmed Shamji going downstairs and peering into the river. 

Scotland Yard detectives believed Zac took his personal life and reportedly solely visited the house 4 days after his demise. 

But they’ve been closely criticised by his grieving dad and mom for lacking essential proof with questions remaining as to why they determined to not forensically check smears resembling blood on the partitions within the toilet and bed room.

A ‘couple of metres of glass’ had additionally being cleaned on the balcony the place Zac is believed to have jumped. But once more this space was by no means examined. 

The teenager was finally discovered on the base of the tower block with a damaged jaw – the reason for which couldn’t be decided – and accidents to his hip, which smashed into the embankment wall, based on The Times.

His dad and mom – Rochelle and Matthew Brettler, each 61 – have all the time thought their son was making an attempt to flee from what was contained in the room and have accused detectives of displaying ‘no curiosity’. 

The teen had change into enamoured with wealth throughout his time at Mill Hill School in north London, an unique £30,000-a-year boarding college the place many pupils had been the youngsters of Russian oligarchs.

In order to play up his connections, he had adopted a number of completely different alter egos, together with that of a Kazakh man, a buddy of Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk and the son of a lifeless Russian oligarch.

The teen’s heartbroken dad and mom deny that he was suicidal – saying he emailed his mom on the night time he died about reserving a driving check and his in a single day bag contained sufficient garments to final a number of days. 

‘I knew Zac and it simply wasn’t proper,’ his father informed The Sunday Times. 

‘The in a single day bag he’d taken, the messages he’d despatched, the plans we would made. It did not sit properly with anyone, not out of any stigma subject, nevertheless it did not. Also, who commits suicide in entrance of another person?’ 

Sharma and Shamji had been each arrested on suspicion of homicide however neither had been ever charged. 

Sharma later died in 2020 in the identical flat from an obvious drug overdose. 

Prior to his demise, Zac was calling himself Zac Ismailov.

He informed new associates that he had lately inherited his late father’s fortune however he was being blocked from accessing it by his mom, who lived in Dubai.

He bought to know the Shamji after they agreed to change into potential enterprise companions.

The businessman then put Zac in contact with Sharma, who lived alone in an house on the Riverwalk improvement, within the hope he might give {the teenager} a house whereas he resolved his ‘inheritance dispute.

Messages within the run as much as Zac’s demise confirmed Sharma was getting increasingly more within the teenager’s wealth, writing on the morning of the tragedy: ‘I’m pondering f*** this little child.’

Poplar coroner’s court docket held an inquest into Zac’s demise and recorded an open verdict in 2022.

A Met Police spokesperson mentioned: ‘Our honest condolences stay with Zac Brettler’s household, and we perceive the uncertainty about how their son died should proceed to be the reason for unimaginable ache.

‘Whenever somebody dies unexpectedly in London, we now have established policing protocols to observe, and the investigation into Zac’s demise was led by an skilled detective.

‘The crew labored onerous to discover each attainable speculation, which had been shared with Zac’s household, however finally we weren’t in a position to present fuller solutions.

‘The case was additionally reviewed by specialist murder detectives to make sure each line of enquiry had been exhausted.

‘As with any case, we’d all the time encourage anybody who they believes they’ve extra data or proof to contact police. Any new data might be examined by itself benefit by a crew led by skilled detectives.’