Mickymack10
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MostlMaybe it was not from within the bank and something that occurred just before he moved to Nairn. How did he finance Lothian House for example?
I've been down the rabbit hole a few times on the theory that the envelope was possibly being used as ruse. In some aspects it makes so much sense, but then I quickly change my mind and have second thoughts on it. For example I don't know how the gunman could have been sure AW was always going to return back to return back downstairs with the envelope? If it was a case of he wanted to get close to AW to shoot him at point blank range, then surely that opportunity would have presented itself to the gunman when he spoke to AW for approximately a couple of minutes on the 1st encounter, why waste more time on the doorstep in an open environment opposite two pubs and risk been seen by others when he could easily have killed him there and then?I believe that Alistair was always meant to be murdered and that people are concentrating far to much on the envelope and why he would be allowed back in if it was a hit. This inturn is distracting them from trying to make sense of it and the more you read, the more confused you become. I know that's what happened to me for a while.
I do believe it was a murder for hire plot arranged by someone he had upset ( finances) possible an affair, and the person who arranged it either knew violent gang members, or had a violent friend.
When a murder for hire is arranged by a third party 9 times out of 10 you find that the person who is requesting the killing usually provides the weapon.
In order to give you some context. There was a murder of a off duty police officer called Nisha Patel- Nasri. Her husband had hired someone to kill her and had given the killer keys to his house to do so while he was out. The hired hit then used a knife from their knife block, killing her inside her house. 10 days later just like in this case the knife was found down a drain a few streets away, just outside the search parameters.
The reason for dumping the weopan in this way is because they know that it will not be traced back to them, and they don't want to be walking around with it on their person after the murder. Especially when the police & paramedics are likely on their way. ( in this case very close by)
They then walk away usually in the direction of waiting vehicle In this case on the dimly lit links carpark with no CCTV, where coincidently tracker dogs did follow a scent to ( Perhaps to the same 4x4 Mitshibishi seen the night before, and they disappear. ( likley to Inverness)
With that in mind and knowing that the small calibre weapon he had been provided with meant he needed to be close to his target in order to kill him, perhaps that's why he used the envelope. ( Alistair handing it back insured that closness.)
The man who initially knocked on the door with the envelope likely gave him a *advertiser censored*-and-bull-story about what was in it, ( hence his bewilderment) so when he went back inside to look and found it to be empty, and that it was not addressed to him, he obviously went out to check if the man was still there. (Matching what we the public know).
If we remember what Veronica said to Journalist interviewing her. "His decision to go back and see if he was still there was based on what the killer had said"! Now it makes more sense.
However by the time Alistair returned it was a different man standing there, not the guy who handed him the envelope. And that is who shot him.
Veronica only saw the back of him walking away, and let's say, in a bid to turn a profit the people who made the Blouson jacket and the Cap the man she saw was wearing, made more than one, and the two people involved wore the same/simular outfits.
Perhaps the envelope really had contained nothing, but initially it had contained the gun, and Paul was who it was delivered to, and Paul's acomplice had just reused that same envelope. ( explaining why his name was on it).
I have also read that in the early hours of Sunday morning neighbours reported seeing a 4x4 Mitsubishi parked up outside Alistair’s house, and that the men inisde were acting suspiciously, and after being disturbed, they drove off. That being the case perhaps that was the same vehicle waiting for the killer on the links carpark.
Maybe the way to solve this crime lies further back in Alistair’s finances before he moved to Nairn, and lies in how he financed Lothian House.
That was a 9 bedroom property, with 6 bathrooms and 3 reception rooms. How does a 28 year old man finance something like that? Speaking to the chartered accountant who was involved with that purchase would likely uncover any unusual transactions.
When he was seen gambling what was described as large amounts of money 2 days before his murder, still in his suit, going there straight from work. Was he laundering money through the bookmakers, rather than through the bank, which is why police found no unusual transactions at the bank?
Looking at the fact he could afford to take a job with a lower wage, gamble large amounts of money and still afford to run that property, you have to question where his finances were coming from.
Had the closure of the B&B buisness he had initially bought Lothian House for the purpose of, caused the problem? Rather than his decision to leave the bank?
The intent was always to kill Alistair imo, and the motive could be anything some one will eventuly guess right, but perhaps trying to find that 4x4 Mitsubishi seen the night before might be the way to go. My guess would be one of the men seen in it was named Paul.
It's very unusual for a hitman, wither it's an amateur or a professional to enter any sort of dialogue with the intended target, it's very much a case of shoot and kill, even if there was passer by's or people standing across the road outside the pub, which there was at the time, this still shouldn't have prevented him from killing AW on the spot, as most hitmen when leaving the scene of the crime will lift the gun above there head at show it to the witnesses as a warning sign not to follow them as he will turn the gun on them.
If this was indeed a case of the gunman given AW a false sense of security by lying to him over some false documents in the envelope relating to something, then why didn't AW not just open the envelope up there and then? Why would he close the door, then take it up to his wife to then realise it was empty? Couldn't AW not have figured that out on the doorstep when talking to the gunman? And dealt with the situation there and then? It's a big house aswell so surely from the distance he walked from the front door back up the flight of stairs to the bedroom, he would have been able to have sussed it out that the envelope was empty.
If a stranger came to my door and gave me an envelope, I wouldn't then say "cheers mate I'll open it up inside" psychologically it's all wrong, most of us would open it up there and then and ask the person what it contained and who they were, even more so if the person made out that there was some advertisement documents inside it, when infact there wasn't, you'd tell them to clear off. If we go along with this theory, then the gunman would have had to have relied on alot probabilities, luck and also would have to be certain this spontaneous method would all work in his favour, as it could have totally have backfired on him bigtime. In all likelihood this didn't happen.
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