Tell me how he lived and will tell you how he died

Dad of two's bank work 'the key to his doorstep murder'

- BY NORMAN SILVESTER

A DETECTIVE who nailed 30 killers claims the unsolved slaying of Alistair Wilson could be linked to his work as a bank boss - and says that should be the focus of the police probe.

Alistair was gunned down on the doorstep of his home in Nairn in November 2004.

Police Scotland previously ruled out a link to his job with the Bank of Scotland as a business manager and said the murder may instead have been over a planning dispute with a local hotel, the Havelock.

However, ex-Metropolitan Police detective chief inspector Colin Sutton, a senior investigating officer in 30 successful murder inquiries between 2003 and 2011, disagrees.

In that time he brought both serial killer Levi Bellfield and Nightstalker rapist Delroy Grant to justice.

Both investigations were dramatised in the ITV series Manhunt, where Colin was played by Martin Clunes.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Record's Criminal Record Podcast, he said of the Wilson murder: "It's one of those cases that you know that something caused it. It is not a random attack.

"An old colleague, a former SIO, used to say.

'Tell me how he lived and I will tell you how he died. I think that very much applies to Alistair.