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wearing hazmat suits. at 10.00pm, luxmy gopal will be here with a full round—up of the days news. first, the big cases: the doorstep murder. operator: do you need the fire, police or ambulance? _ my husband's been shot! inaudible. i can't hear you. do you require the fire, police or ambulance? oh, my god! inaudible. who do you want to speak to? the fire, police or ambulance? police and ambulance, my husband'sjust been shot. it's one of scotland's most notorious unsolved murderers. my last and my only memory is of my dad on the floor in a pool of his own blood. we know that someone out there knows and look what it's doing to ourfamily,

look at the damage that it's done. two sons growing up without a dad. finding the gun, we thought that would be it, it would be solved. nearly two decades after the murder of alistair wilson, could police be closer to catching his killer? the 28th of november, 200a. nairn, a quiet seaside town in the scottish highlands. lynsey gardner was having a meal with herfriend in the havelock hotel, just metres from the wilson family home.

it was quite busy that night. it was quite a lot of people. sunday evening, out for sunday dinner. what was the atmosphere like? just lots of chatter, music — thejukebox was on, music was playing. a few people having drinks at the bar. across the road, alistair wilson was reading his two sons a bedtime story when the doorbell rang. i ran downstairs. we were expecting another friend that evening. i did not recognise — it was somebody that i didn't know but he asked for alistair. so, ijust thought nothing of it, you know. i ran back upstairs and told al that there was somebody at the door asking for him and took over reading stories for the boys. alistair spoke to the man, closed the front door, went back upstairs to veronica

and the boys. he was carrying a blue envelope with the name paul written on it. what do 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 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 had 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. alistair had been shot in the face and the body. just looking at al thinking, i didn't know what to do and i can't do this. this is my husband we're talking about. i can't help him. i don't know what to do so i ran across the road to the hotel and screamed to them that i need help. mrs wilson burst through the door — "please help, "please help, my husband has just been shot." myself and my friend looked each other in disbelief. did we hear what we thought we had just heard? just got up and ran out to try and help. itjust so happened that we were the first ones to arrive at the door and see alistair lying there in the doorway.

he was just fighting for his life, really. his face, i noticed first, his cheek was puffed out and he was struggling to breathe, and, yes... so he was conscious at that time? he was still conscious, yes. he was still conscious. they weren't the only people on the scene. the owner of the havelock hotel rushed to the doorstep from a barjust down the road. his name is andy burnett. he no longer lives in scotland. but a year after the murder, he gave a detailed account of what happened that night to a sunday times journalist. he said that he went up the steps, he saw alistair was lying _ on the ground and he also described seeing a bullet hole _

just beneath his cheek. he said that there was another woman there and he said that she, _ in his words, she was doing - everything but putting her fingers on the bullet holes to stop i the blood but she was doing everything she could i to try and save alistair. they have the paramedics on the other side of the phone telling us what we should be doing. i remember seeing a cartridge of a bullet lying on his chest, stomach sort of area. i can remember pushing up his shirt to see if i could, if there was any bullet wounds to help stop the bleeding. veronica was there and it seemed to andy burnettl that she was in shock. | he described it as, he got a holdj of her and made her look at him. and he said, "what happened?" she said, "this really weird guy came to the door." - could you see inside the house?

yes. i remember at one point looking up to see a little boy standing at the bottom of the stairs and trying to ask anybody that was about to try and take the little boy into another room. i didn't want the little boy to see what we were looking at in the doorway. it was his dad. that little boy was andrew wilson. here he is with his dad on the day of the murder. andrew can't remember that walk in the woods but what he saw later that night is etched on his mind forever. the only memory that i have got of my dad is the image of him lying on the doorstep in his own blood. so this happened to me. you go through the photos and stuff. i don't have any of those memories.

they are all other people. i was four and my brother was two. my brother has even less memories than me. andy burnett, the owner of the havelock, told the sunday times he initially thought the shooting had been inside his pub. when he ran over, he realised it was across the road. he said more or less i that he was being nosy. he was concerned, he knew them - as a couple, he described how he had i played golf once with alistair, i and he described how eventually the body was being taken away. i remember standing at the front door, just looking out into the dark night, and all of a sudden just thinking, it sort of come to realisation that somebody had been there with a gun so i was probably standing in full view.

alistair was pronounced 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. this 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 wedding reception. the wilsons had moved to nairn 18 months before. they'd fallen in love with its beautiful beaches and wanted to raise their children here. alistair was a manager at the bank of scotland in nearby inverness and veronica had been a graphic designer. they had had a whirlwind romance. he was one of those people you met and you just knew. then, yes, it all happened very fast. sounds like love at first sight. yes, he was just — when he said he was there at eight o'clock, he was there at eight o'clock with a bunch of flowers, on—time, and it was all nice having somebody who just instantly cared so much and very genuine and honest. yes, it quickly moved on and within six weeks we were engaged. wow. yes, so it was, ijust

knew straightaway. when he wasn't working, it was all about the boys. he was very hands—on. alistair had two weeks left of his job at the bank when he was murdered. he wasn't enjoying it anymore, the challenge wasn't there. with any big organisation, the rules change. the circumstances change, and he wasn't doing what he had set out to do, helping other people more and more. he couldn't. it didn't fit into the rules now of the bank. nine days into the police investigation, there was a breakthrough when a council worker made an important discovery. we got up to the drain, we were cleaning about,

and there was a gun sitting at the bottom of the drain. i thought it was a toy because of the size of it. just being down the drain, i thought someone was pulling a sick joke after what had happened. once we lifted it out, i felt the weight of the gun and in fact realised it was real. the gun that killed alistair was found half a mile from the wilson family home. it wasn't a weapon you'd expect to be used in a murder. it's a haenel suhl model 1 pocket pistol. built in the 19205 and 19305 in the czech republic. as you see from it and the size of my hands, when i put my hand around the grip, i can only get one fingeraround the grip of the pistol. it's extremely small. ten days in and finding that on the first time is just, thought that was amazing, that was it, this is it. it would be solved.

but no dna was found on the gun. a hammer blow for the family and the police investigation. and the blue envelope that alistair had carried back downstairs has never been found. this is the best match, the best likeness of the envelope handed to alistair wilson on 28 november 2004, shortly before he was shot. a couple of interesting facts. one, the name paul was on the envelope. and secondly, when he has gone upstairs to his wife, the envelope was opened and there was nothing inside. what was the purpose of the envelope and who is paul? just two of the many mysteries in this case. the years passed but the police were no closer to finding answers to those questions. alistair�*s life was under the spotlight. our life has been looked into in every fine detail

over and over again, with all the different teams we have had. yeah. i don't think there is anything that hasn't been touched. veronica and the two boys stayed in nairn after the murder, they continue to stay 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, people hang on every word you say, and look for clues about whether you are guilty or not? it's really difficult. you do feel you are 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 try top 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, we don't live in a way we should do. there have been countless theories about alistair�*s murder — that it was related to his work at the bank, that its brutality suggested it was the work of a hitman or there was irish paramilitary involvement. police have investigated all of these. but they have 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? back in 2004, it had been taken over by andy burnett. he was 37 at the time. his linkedin profile says he is ex—army, a diplomatic career, posted to germany for five years in the 1990s.

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. the sunday times in 2005, that alistair and veronica had begun

keeping their curtains closed. yeah, i thought this was interesting that the suggestion from andy burnett was there was something a little off—key about the couple. that he had said two weeks before the shooting, why was their front door never open and the curtains always closed, it's like they've got something to hide. or maybe the curtains were shut as alistair says because people at the pub were staring right in front of their windows. the council sent this letter to the havelock two days before his murder. and the police now believe it is significant. for the first time, they have a possible motive. we believe the most likely motive based on what was a current grievance in alistair�*s like time of the murder was the fact he had objected, in writing, about a large decking area that had

been built in the pub car park directly opposite where they stayed. we know that knowledge of alistair�*s name was shared with others in among the pub at the time, so that after 18 years is what we believe to be the most likely grievance that might be someone coming into conflict with alistair at the time of his murder. could the reason for this gang—land style assassination really be a dispute over a pub decking area? andy burnett is no longer living in nairn, he sold the havelock and moved to canada in 2013. detectives travelled to nova scotia and interviewed him over the course of four days. we tried to speak to him too but he either didn't receive our messages or didn't want to respond. for the first time in years, there's been a flurry of activity around the case.

but police knew about the decking dispute when alistair was killed. andy burnett told the sunday times he'd been a focus of the police enquiry. "a big issue for the police and everybody else in nairn, is that on the saturday i got letter complaining about decking, and saying, �*crescent road �*predominantly a family street.�* "then on the sunday he got shot and that was me "being interrogated and investigated, even went to guernsey and spoke to my golfing partner." he means the police went to guernsey and spoke to his golfing partner, "asking him if i got angry and things like that." the police have emphasised that andy burnett is a witness not a suspect.

so what's new about the decking dispute? we now know it was the subject of discussion in the havelock in the days before alistair�*s death, and we know police are now interested in a specific person. someone we have not heard about before. we can't name this man for legal reasons, what we can say is he lived in nairn at the time of the murder and worked for the emergency services. he's also linked to andy burnett on social media. i've come round the corner so i don't identify his old address but neighbours have said he was a regular at the havelock and two of them mentioned that he kept guns in his house in a locked gun safe, as would be required to do under a licence. when alistair was murdered, police said the gunman was 30 to 40 years old. they've recently changed that age description, it is now 20 to 40.

at the time of the murder this man was 20. someone who knew him told us he was a decent guy, and certainly wasn't stocky, which was also a key part of the description of the killer. as we approach the anniversary of alistair�*s death, no—one has been charged. it's left a family scarred. i have been referred to as the banker's son, i've had people in school say not very nice things about it and think it's funny, i think people don't realise the effect of something like this. i have had over ten years of counselling and many fears of the dark, loud noises, being in the dark on my own. i don't think i will ever get over it or understand it, but i can live with — well, i have to live with what has happened. are police now closing

in on the answers the wilson family so desperately need ? it's hard to grasp but what you are actually looking for is a answer, i don't know why people kill other people, and with a gun on the family doorstep while the children are upstairs, i don't know what sort of person i'm trying to find. for us as a family, yeah, we don't know why. this isjust so senseless, you know. we need to know why. who and why would just make such a difference to us being able to move on.

hello, thanks forjoining me. let's see what's the weather has got in store for the rest of the weekend and into next week. and the weather map for sunday shows a large area of low pressure in the north atlantic. just centred to the south of iceland. and this weather front spiralling into the centre. and, here it is. you can see it is actually clipping the southeast of england and east anglia on sunday. so, likely to be wet here for a time during the morning and afternoon. but elsewhere, plenty of bright weather with scattered fair weather clouds and occasional showers. blustery too. but it would be relatively mild. temperatures will be around 10, maybe 14 degrees there in the channel sslands. how about sunday night into monday? the weather front eventually moves away. and we start to see an area of high pressure slowly building in. and that sets the scene for the week ahead. it's going to be a dry week. for most of us. it's going to turn a little

bit colder as well. nothing too cold, but a little bit colder. here's a forecast for monday. we still have some showers in the wake of that weather front. out towards the west here, high pressure is building. that means the winds are easing, the skies are clearer and we are in for a generally dry day on monday. the driest of the weather will be out towards the west of the uk. still a few showers lingering there in the southeast. monday night into tuesday. that area of high pressure, rather the ridge here. that's what we call the ridge. establishes itself across the uk. that means light winds and really murky, misty conditions first thing in the morning on tuesday. now, if any fog persists and lingers through the day it will be quite cold. so these temperatures could be quite optimistic in some areas. yes, it could get up to nine or 10 degrees but where the fog lingers it could be quite a few degrees lower than that. so, that will feel relatively chilly on tuesday. now tuesday night into wednesday, a weather front tries

to push in but it can't. because this area of high pressure is very strong. it is stopping the weather front from moving in. think of an air of high pressure like a stone, a block in the weather patterns. so, high pressure here not really moving. weather fronts are basically deflected to the north, so they may clip north—western scotland. across the rest of the country it would be a case of light winds and clear skies overnight into wednesday. and indeed the rest of the week, means it will be misty and murky and foggy at times. you can see that high—pressure builds across the uk. and again, deflecting the weather front to the north. and you can see from that winds blowing from the south due north. so the rain is kept at bay. so thursday, a dry day. but it might end up being quite grey. low grey skies. and where any mist and murk persists, those temperatures could be even lower than that. so yes it would be a little bit colder. if you look at the temperature of the atmosphere through our air mass graphics,

you can see that colder air spreading in from more eastern parts of europe and scandinavia around this area of high pressure stop but it's desperately cold. in fact, we can't guarantee dry weather completely. because we could see smaller areas of low pressure forming just towards the south of us. so, generally speaking, yes, the weather is looking dry and this is from thursday next week onwards into the weekend you can see fairly stable weather conditions with that area of high pressure building in from eastern parts of europe. bye— bye.

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