Two images from the Wilson case linger in the memory.
One is of a handsome young man, dressed smartly in a pink shirt and dark red tie.
The other is of his widow, facing a barrage of press and TV cameras as she pleads for information about her husband’s killer.
Until that awful November day 10 years ago, Alistair and Veronica Wilson were like any other happy young couple.
Mr Wilson grew up at Beith in Ayrshire, the son of John and Alison and brother to Jillian.
He attended Garnock Academy and then went to Stirling University to study business law and accountancy.
After graduating, he joined the Bank of Scotland in 1996 and worked at the company’s branch in Fort William High Street.
Later, he moved to the firm’s HQ in Edinburgh, working on private finance projects and specialist lending.
In 1999, he moved to Inverness and was based in offices at Beechwood Business Park.
In the year before his death, Mr Wilson was involved in the formation of a new team for Bank of Scotland business banking.
His role was to target small and medium-sized firms from Orkney to Oban and the Western Isles to Moray.
He was highly regarded by his employer and well known in local business circles.
However, it was reported after the murder that Mr Wilson planned to quit his job with the Bank of Scotland and was due to start a new job with Building Research Establishment, a research and consultancy business expanding in the north of Scotland.
He and wife met in Fort William. They were engaged within six weeks and married in 1998. At the time of the murder, their sons were aged just four and two.
After living in Inverness, they decided to move to Nairn and enjoy walks on the beach. The couple also regarded it as a safe place to bring up children.
The family moved to Nairn in 2002 and bought a former B&B in the town’s affluent Crescent Road.
In the first few months, they opened a restaurant in the building but it is understood the venture was not successful and the house reverted to being simply the family home.
Veronica Wilson has remained largely silent about the day she lost her husband – her public statements have been few and far between.
Her family was under armed guard for the first few days following her husband’s death, but she chose to stay on in the house, despite the weight of memories it must hold.
She faced the cameras two weeks after the murder to make a tearful plea for information about the killer, telling reporters: “They are not a human being. Alistair was not a bad person. He would not knowingly harm anyone.
“How can I explain this to my boys?
“They have taken everything away from us.”