Key witness in Scots banker's doorstep killing was at scene of shooting as probe takes new twist
dailyrecord.co.ukThe 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.The ex-officer said Mr Burnett told him he had not been working on the evening of Sunday, November 28, and had gone to the nearby Braevale Hotel, known as the Shambles, for dinner with friends when he heard about a shooting.Bleksley said: “He saw the commotion outside Alistair Wilson’s house.
He later helped paramedics put Alistair back on the stretcher after he slipped off and said he was in a bad way.“He told me he saw Alistair’s watch coming loose.
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