Jaycee 1992
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Thanks for the positive feedback again, you raise some more good points in terms of why the police haven't released more details as to what was said on the doorstep. I'm guessing some details have to be kept back for specialist knowledge, incase there is a break through in the case and they need to conceal some of the evidence they have if they were to ever prosecute someone for the murder.I agree with so much you say. The challenges, for me, in some aspects, however, are:
I agree that the killer using some tactic (with the envelope) to make sure this was the correct AW makes sense. It is very easy to imagine an earlier example along the lines of "Looking for a Paul who stayed at your hotel": AW is then "Positively ID'd" through acknowledging he once had a hotel. The problem is that if it was something innocuous like that, why have the Police never said what was discussed (as they clearly know some of it at least?) It makes sense this might have been something that did happen, but there are still questions.
According to reports AW had no clue what was going on but had a reason to ask his wife if she did? Was this just chance? Did he have a reason to think so?
Money laundering: was AW unwittingly involved? If he was not, (but actively so) would someone with the capacity to hide their underhanded dealings not perhaps 'attempt' to guarantee their safety by keeping a dossier somewhere safe for use if he was threatened?
Remember the only person that knows the exact details of the conversation that took place would have been the detectives, Veronica, the killer and ofcourse alistair himself.
The only reason the information was released to the public with regards to the envelope was because of an armchair detective who sent a dossier to a criminologist (David Wilson) who released the dossier to the public. Shortly afterwards the police confirmed that this was infact true, and pleaded with the members of the public to come forward if they had any information with regards to the envelope that could help assist them.
I also think given the nature in which Alistair was killed the police tried protecting Veronica, and didn't want to go public with what she had told them incase she became a target herself from the people involved.
I personally think at the time it was the right thing to do but as the years moved on and the case began to dry up they definitely should have released the information about the envelope sooner.
I doubt Alistair wilson would have had a dossier lying by his side, had he been involved with money laundering, he would have been prosecuted straight away for his involvement.
I think had he been involved in such activity he would have washed his hands with it completely, and tried his best not to leave a trail of evidence that would have fallen back to him.
This is why I think had such deals taken place it would have been of the books.
The police have only ever stated that Alistair was bewildered by the visit and told his wife that he didn't know the gunman. With so much little information given to us by the police all we can do is speculate with what happened on the doorstep, which is deeply frustrating.
I hope Alistairs killer and the people involved will one day be prosecuted for his murder, he was a fantastic father who had so much more to live for. For his sons to lose there Dad in such a brutal way, I hope one day they find closure even it means them finding out things they didn't want to hear about there Dad.