jeff

I'm not from the press. I don't like newspapers and never buy them. Let me tell you something about myself. My mother died when I was seventeen. She had cancer and it took several months for her to die. You could actually see her bones through her skin towards the end. She went into hospital and one morning I was woken by my dad to say that she had died. Every morning after that I would wake up and for an instant feel like it was a normal day. Then immediately the truth of what has happened comes immediately back to mind and you feel it all again. It is a horrible feeling. That is when you know someone has died. In a case like this you get no resolution, and people continually saying sorry doesn't help. The family want answers. Every day the various scenarious will be playing over in their heads. They will probably imagine much worse than is being discussed here. What they need is support above all but also answers. You cannot grieve when you have no resolution and pussy footing around is the last thing they need. There are two important issues here. Firstly that they get their answers and secondly that the work that Sandy did continues. Not only for the sake of Unst, but also so that we can prevent ecological disaster. From all that I have heard about Sandy he was a good man with good intentions. It wont be some paranoid conspiracy theory that will be the answer but something rather more mundane. Jeff

Just been reading the other thread on drug use in Shetland. Could it be that the cars seen at the industrial estate were there waiting for a boat bringing drugs onto the Island and Sandy saw something he shouldn't? Has anyone considered this option?

I have been searching the web for other companies involved in renewable hydrogen projects. There are enough out there, even in America, to say that anyone thinking that removing Sandy Macaulay from the equation would make any difference would simply be fooling themselves. They would have to cripple every company to make a difference. This means that the answer lies elsewhere. There is some other motive behind his disappearance.

dabuoyfaedanort wrote Were the lights still on in the office when the other staff arrived that morning? I know this sounds like a trivial question but could make a difference. If the lights were still on then he would not have intended to go far or he wanted it to look like someone was still there while he went off somewhere, intending to return. If the lights were off that would suggest that he intended to leave and knew he wasn't coming back. It's instinctive that when you leave for the day you would switch off the lights. We have a director here at work that locks the front office door instinctively even if it is only 4.00 PM when he leaves. We all joke about it. That sort of thing can easily be missed.

I have just joined the forum. I am a friend of Sandy's brother-in-law. I was shocked by what I heard yesterday. I am not from Shetland so forgive the intrusion. All day I have been checking out the background to the story and find that none of it seems to make any sense however you look at it. I hope that it can all be resolved soon and he is found alive and well. Jeff