Incomer was murdered by his neighbours on remote isle, court is told

Robert Rose, 54, was reported missing on 8 June 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 and hiding his remains.

Mr Rose's daughter, Katie, told a jury at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday that her father moved to the island in March 2008 to start a new life after experiencing money problems.

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."

Mr Rose bought a property called Braehowar and a plot of land, where he kept three alpacas. He was living in one room of the house while renovating it, and did odd jobs for other islanders.

Ms Rose said her father lived next door to Crummack, who stayed in a caravan next to a chapel building.

She last spoke to her father on 6 June, when he sent a video clip to her phone, with the message "ha ha, just chilling, having a boys' night in". She said that her father had got "quite friendly" with a woman called Maggie.

Community nurse Francis Muir told the court that Margaret, as she knew the woman, had a child with Campbell, who was her patient.

Ms Muir, 53, said she visited Campbell at his home on the island on 1 April and found him "down" and "agitated".

She said: "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 on the island."

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

She said: "He said that one day he would go up to Bob and he would kill him."

Campbell and Crummack deny murdering Mr Rose at his home on 6 or 7 June and stealing his wallet and some money. They also plead not guilty to attempting to defeat the ends of justice by burying his body in sand dunes and driving Mr Rose's car to Loth Pier to make it look as though he had left the island on a ferry.

Ms Muir told the trial before Lord Turnbull that she was asked to visit Campbell by the island's doctor, who was travelling to Kirkwall that day. He asked her to have a talk with him, following a call by Campbell.

She said: "He told me that they had a relationship before she left and she was sending text messages to Bob. He was upset about it, he was angry about it".

Ms Muir agreed with Campbell's defence counsel Donald Findlay that it was not surprising his client was not "well disposed" towards Mr Rose.

Mr Findlay said: "You will have heard, in one form or another, people at some point in their lives saying, 'I'll swing for that so and so'. We don't, whenever we hear that, go and get the police."

Ms Muir agreed and told the court that she had not warned Mr Rose, but noted Campbell's comments in her journal.

The trial heard later from Campbell's former partner, Margaret Johnston, 34.

Ms Johnston said she met the accused more than four years ago after contacting him about the sale of a marmoset monkey.

Campbell, who she said was living in Falkirk at the time, brought the monkey to her home in Fife.

The pair had gradually formed a relationship. The trial continues.