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Andy burnett installed decking and a new seating area at the havelock in may of 2004, just in time for the summer. he applied for planning permission later. there was a call for any objections from neighbours. alistair wasn t happy, and wrote a letter. here s a section of it: now, that last line is interesting because andy burnett told the sunday times in 2005 that alistair and veronica had begun keeping their curtains closed. ....
We don t live the way we should do. there have been countless theories about alistair s murder that it was related to his work in the bank, that its brutality suggested it was the work of a hitman or that there was irish paramilitary involvement. police have investigated all of these, but they ve drawn a blank on a motive. until now. remember the havelock, the pub where veronica ran for help in the minutes after alistair was shot? well, back in 2004, it had been taken over by andy burnett. he was 37 at the time. his linkedin profile says he s ex army, a diplomatic career, posted to germany for five years in the 1990s. ....
Dead in hospital. two boys, each two and four, left without their dad, veronica, without her husband. there was a huge manhunt for the killer. alistair wilson s murder remains a mystery. the description of the gunman has been circulated widely in the inverness area but it s not rung a bell with anyone locally. think again could it be a local man? perhaps a customer of mr wilson from the bank of scotland in inverness. he is late 30s, short and stocky, maybe around 94 , maybe a bit taller. he had short, dark hair but was wearing a black baseball cap, darkjeans and a black bomberjacket. the shooting happened in the small town of nairn in the scottish highlands. not a place you d expect a gangland style murder. the last killing here in the 1980s after a fight at a wedding reception. ....
He was carrying a blue envelope with the name paul written on it. what can you tell us about this envelope? alistair came back upstairs with the envelope and, as you know, it had paul on it, so he was a bit bewildered as to what the gentleman had said because the envelope was not addressed to him. i said, no, he definitely asked for you by name. it wasn t addressed to himself and there was nothing in the envelope. he found that quite strange and he went back downstairs to see if the gentleman was still there. alistair opened the front door again. the man was still there. veronica heard loud bangs. she said it sounded like wooden pallets being dropped. i just left the boys in the room and ran down, didn t see anything, ran down and he was lying in the porch. it was so serious, there wasjust so much blood. ....
Yeah. i don t think there s anything that hasn t been touched. veronica and her two boys stayed in nairn after the murder. in fact, they continue to live in the same house where alistair had been shot. veronica had to put up with gossip and whispers as suspicion fell on her, too despite police being clear she s not a suspect. what is it like knowing that people are judgemental, knowing that people will hang on every word you say and look for clues of whether you re guilty or not? it s really difficult. you do feel a lot of the time you re not living your own life because you have to be careful what you say, as you say, i have information other people might not know. i always try to put myself in their position, what would i think if i read about us? to be able to sleep at night, people might have to think there was something there. itjust makes our life fairly uncomfortable. we exist. ....