Paul and Jan Betts will pour themselves a dram today, sit back quietly and reflect, before raising a glass to the memory of their daughter, Leah.
The “bright and vivacious” 18-year-old died exactly 20 years ago today after taking a rogue Ecstasy tablet at a party.
Her death led to a high profile anti-drugs campaign across the UK led by her father, former Metropolitan policeman Paul, and his wife, Janet, an ex nurse.
But the campaign was to unexpectedly descend into a dark, horrifying conclusion – and led to the Betts fleeing for their lives from their home in Essex and seeking sanctuary in Scotland.
Because of Mr Betts war on drugs, which he fought through newspapers, television and radio, he was placed on a hit list by Essex drug barons.
The couple had no choice but to leave their home behind, aswell as their three other daughters and a son and their own ever-growing families.
The couple have since settled on Scoraig, a windswept peninsula on the far north-west coast of Ross-shire – off grid, off road and off the Richter Scale compared to their old life in England.
There are no shops, the post boat comes three times a week – weather permitting – and the doctor has a surgery once a week.
But there, in their mountain fastness, cosy in their two-bedroomed but and ben, they have made their home. Their last one.
The couple said the 20th anniversary of Leah’s death marks a bitter, yet paradoxically sweet, landmark. Bitter because the memories of that dreadful day – November 16, 1995 – will come flooding back, but sweet, because now, at last, they have laid their demons to rest.
Mrs Betts, 66, said quietly: “We do think about her all the time. But life must go on. Life does go on.”
The couple’s water comes from the sky, their light and power from the sun and the wind, and their vegetables from their polytunnels.
Meat comes in the form of wild rabbits snatched by Mr Bett’s hunting birds of prey, Shalgair the Harris Hawk, and Phoenix, the red tailed buzzard.
Fish, crabs and prawns come from the picturesque sea loch where they have their own 15-foot wooden fishing boat safe and secure on their own foreshore.
Two decades on, the couple seem to have found the safe haven they have been searching for.
But it is a cost they have paid for their fight against drugs.
Mrs Betts said: “It has destroyed our family. They live hundreds of miles away. We have seven grandchildren now and we’ve missed all that too.
“The girls found it difficult to understand when I told them that if we had not moved, dad would not be here today. Dad would have been finished. Dead.”
But Mr Betts, 69, added: “We have found what we’ve been looking for. It’s the nearest to Heaven I will ever get.
“The big regret I have is that I did not discover Scotland 40 years ago. Things could have been so very different.”