Ruthbullock
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Having wrote those two posts- what would make sense is if VW thought it was there fault and reacted by running straight over!
Really great posts and theories- a lot to think about.
My 3 questions- why is there no picture of the suspect?
Why shoot someone over the decking- if it was the builders, they still don’t get paid. If it was the landlord, then it was a flawed plan as VW continued the objections afterwards- although of that were her suspicions I can see why she stayed early on and kept objecting, but from an outsiders point of view it’s a little illogical.
Final question- Did VW run over to the pub for help or did the staff hear the commotion and run out?
I have always wondered if there was anything more written on the envelope than just the name PAUL. Locals staying in Nairn believe there was, and also that there was something inside the envelope initially that AW took out before he showed VW. I don't believe in AW own mind that he was finished speaking to the gunman when he went back inside, I think he always had the intention to go back outside to see what was going on. I wonder if the gunman rang the doorbell a second time for AW to go back downstairs? Maybe the Police have that quiet, as only the gunman and the people close to him would have known what transpired that night.
May 1 2022
Key witness in Scots banker's doorstep killing was at scene of shooting as probe takes new twist - Daily Record
''The key witness in the unsolved murder of banker Alistair Wilson was at the scene of the shooting within minutes and helped paramedics get him into the ambulance.
The Sunday Mail can reveal that publican Andy Burnett stopped the dying dad from slipping off the stretcher and fixed his watch as it came loose before comforting Alistair’s traumatised wife.
Police Scotland last week revealed that a planning dispute over the Havelock House Hotel, then owned by Mr Burnett and just a few steps opposite the doorstep of the Wilson family home in Nairn, could hold the key to solving the 2004 murder.
Retired Metropolitan Police detective Peter Bleksley has told how he met Mr Burnett in 2009 for a book he was writing on the murder. He told him of pressures he had been under running the bar and restaurant and details of the night Alistair, 30, died.''
May 1 2022
Alistair Wilson murder: Key witness helped victim into ambulance | Scotland | The Times
''The key witness interviewed by detectives investigating the murder of a Scottish banker on his doorstep 18 years ago was at the scene of the shooting within minutes and helped paramedics get the victim into an ambulance.
Andy Burnett told a former policeman writing a book on the case that he prevented Alistair Wilson, 30, slipping off a stretcher and fixed his watch as it came loose before comforting his distraught wife Veronica.''
Was just reading over superintendent Graeme Mackie's statement. This part of his statement really stood out for me:
Through significant enquiries being carried out we believe the answer to Alistair's murder lies within his personal life and not in his role with the bank.
Someone locally will have that piece of information that could be crucial to catching his killer and providing answers for his family."
So he's saying someone locally will have that piece of information. So in Police code, there basically telling us they have a reason to believe this was why he was killed, even stranger they believe someone from the hotel or who had a connection to the premises will know who was responsible. I find this statement in isolation absolutely astonishing.
Exactly, as i said previously i find his statement astonishing. Either the Police have stumbled across something in there recent review, ie, new evidence, or they combed through the old case file and realised they completely overlooked something and felt the need to properly Investigate this line of enquiry. The appeal against the decking has been known for years so why now do they feel it's significant? My opinion is they clearly missed something that was staring at them straight in the face first time roundOr potentially someone at the hotel itself.
Exactly, as i said previously i find his statement astonishing. Either the Police have stumbled across something in there recent review, ie, new evidence, or they combed through the old case file and realised they completely overlooked something and felt the need to properly Investigate this line of enquiry. The appeal against the decking has been known for years so why now do they feel it's significant? My opinion is they clearly missed something that was staring at them straight in the face first time round
Welcome to Ws @PCG, thank you for chiming in with those intriguing tidbits!Sorry to go so far back, but I have just joined and have been reading through the thread. On this point:
Maybe Alastair was supposed to "know" what the blue envelope "meant" .
Could it be related to the murder of Alexander Blue? His unsolved murder in Glasgow, took place just two years before Alistair Wilson's. Both seemed well to do, living in big houses above their means. My theory is, that Alastair had been approached by someone trying to get access to a secret account that Alexander had. They did eventually trace this account, but not until 2009, so that part is fact.
Bankrupt murder victim's secret fortune discovered by lawyers
Why would "Paul" be trying to access money held by Alex Blue? Well Alex apparently ripped off a lot of gangsters, so this could be a case of someone trying to retrieve their money back. If you were desperate to access an account, who better to help than someone working in the bank? I suspect that Alistair's path may have crossed with "Paul" possibly through borrowing money
Claims shot Nairn banker owed gangsters £50,000
Then they tried to force him to do this job for them. There has never been any suggestion that Alistair was in any way dishonest, so, if frightened he may have chose to quit his job rather than comply, thinking that would be the end of the matter. Those two murders always seemed similar to me because they were not run of the mill Scottish murders and weren't that far apart in time and both have never been solved. Also, look at the description of one of the two men seen sitting outside Alex's house the night of the murder:
"a man in his 40s, around 6ft with shaven head, built like a builder."
From this source:
WHO KILLED ALEX BLUE?; Cops are baffled by tycoon's death Wall of silence despite big reward Gangsters and lawyers quizzed. - Free Online Library
Sound familiar? Yes, there is the height difference, but bear in mind, this was an estimate of someone sitting in a car and a baseball cap is a good disguise for a bald head.
If the colour and name on the envelope were significant then that may be why it was taken.
To me that is a strange reaction, to run passed your shot husband and over the road, rather than screaming and trying to help him or even just staying with him- but maybe that’s just me I need to clarify, I’m not victim bashing- merely think this is another part of the story that doesn’t make sense and maybe has missing aspects.
I think it's totally normal to try and get immediate help from a pub very close by. The pub is almost on their doorstep. It's across a very thin road. Not what you'd expect of a normal street.
I do not believe for a second his wife was involved in this and there are no red flags to suggest otherwise on the 999 call..
I have always thought this crime was more personal than white collar. ( bank) I also do not think the decking was the motive, but i do think it was part of a wider fall out that came to a head over the decking complaint.
I believe whatever was in that envelope had to either involve his wife or he went to ask her something re how the person at the door got the enevleope contents & that is why he went back in to talk to her about it. I wonder if that is that crucial bit of information that is withheld from police, or the police are withholding from the public?
In my opinion this crime was not carried out by a professional hitman and I have never thought so. Turning up at his home on a Sunday evening, chatting to him, waiting for him to return is all very personal.
It is no coincidence that a man went to his door with an envelope, 2 days after the landlord recieved a letter from the council re Alistair's complaints and objections. Andy had perhaps innocently mentioned this to others in the pub ( given the fact they’d already fallen out). And others in the pub weren't so happy ( Drug dealers)
I believe photographs were also sent in with his complaint of the deck and it's this that upset the dealers ( Perhaps an image he took capture them dealing.)
The famous envelope was simply reused because the person had it to hand. ( hence Paul being written on the front. ) This leads me to believe it was for a birthday card, perhaps hand posted through the door of the acomplis/killer for his sons birthday.
When a little girl is given a card their envelope is generally pink or cream. A boy usually receives cards in a blue envelope. The name on the front would just confirm this.
Or had Alistair himself written on the front of the envelope and was it he who had originally given it to Paul? The caller simply went round with the envelope to discuss its contents. Alistair was bemused that a man he didn't know seemed to know about the envelope and its contents. ( maybe this is what he went in to discuss with his wife). Maybe when he returned Alistair said something that angered the man further who then opened fire.
I don't believe the person necessarily went with the intention of killing Alister, but took the weapon as a back up incase the encounter did turn violent. ( I'm not suggesting Andy Burnett was involved but he likely knows more than he's said previously, fear perhaps ).
Alistair had been having an affair and there were rumors Veronica was also having an affair with the chef whome Andy Fired for closing up that night after the shooting. All this shows me is that the fued between them had been going on for a while and culminated in the shooting after the decking complaint...
Someone turned the CCTV round that should of been facing down crescent Rd that night so you would persume an earlier time that day the person who did that would of been captured doing so.
After the crime the man who originally knocked on the door would of been parked on the links carpark ( a place the tracker dogs did follow a scent to) he then drove off down Marine drive, onto Seafield street then onto seabank road, ( No cctv route) where the passenger ( killer) dropped the gun down the drain before taking the A96. Likley headed for Invernes.
I believe the police are looking for a local drug dealer, clearly with a history of violence, who was most likley interviewed very early on in the process and overlooked, (as often happens.) Either his name or his sons name is Paul and either or had celebrated a birthday the day before or the day of the shooting.
but then...the police could have said that without revealing the details....who knows...not me, evidentlyif Paul was written on the back it could explain why the police haven't revealed what else was written on the envelope...there could have been a name and address on the front of someone who had no. connection to the murder....the gunman could. have. picked. it out of a bin or whatever