Pair deny murdering building worker

Robert Rose, 54, was reported missing on June 8 last year, about 15 months after moving from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to Sanday, where he was renovating a rundown property.

The father-of-three's body was found in sand dunes at Sty Wick more than two weeks later.

John Campbell, 59, and Stephen Crummack, 51, are accused of murdering the former construction worker, stealing his wallet and hiding his remains. They deny the charges.

Mr Rose's daughter, Katie, told a jury at the High Court in Glasgow that her father moved to Sanday in March 2008 to start a new life.

The 25-year-old beauty therapist, whose mother died several years ago, said: "He went up before moving, up to visit, he'd heard about the island and wanted to go. He loved it so much he decided to move up there. He wanted a clean break, a fresh start."

The court heard that Mr Rose bought a property called Braehowar and a plot of land.

He was living in one room of the building while renovating it.

Crummack was next door in a caravan.

She said that during his time on the island, her father had got "quite friendly" with a woman called Maggie.

A second witness, nurse Francis Muir, said Margaret, as she knew her, had a child with her patient John Campbell.

The 53-year-old said she visited Campbell at home on the island on April 1. "He was upset because his partner had left him, he hadn't seen his child.

"He said he thought she'd been seeing somebody else and that there were messages going back and forth between her and this other man who lived on the island."

Ms Muir identified the man as "Bob" Rose and noted in her diary that Campbell said he wanted to kill him.