MYSTERY MAN'S DEATH WAS GAME THAT ENDED WITH MURDER SAYS DAD; New `role-playing' theory.
A Frenchman shot dead on a remote Scottish mountain was murdered his father claimed yesterday.And the distraught dad is convinced the killing was part of a bizarre role-playing adventure that went wrong.
The body of Emmanuel Caillet, 26, was discovered by hillwalkers in June last year on remote Ben Alder in the Highlands.
Police were unable to identify the body because it was so badly decomposed and the case was dubbed `The man with no name'.
The investigation drew a blank for 18 months until a 3-D clay model reconstruction of Emmanuel's face was made using the latest computer techniques.
The image was broadcast on national television and the Caillet family came forward after a friend in London spotted the model.
Pierre Caillet, a merchant banker from Paris, travelled to Inverness yesterday for a meeting with the Scottish prosecutor investigating the death.
And the dad said: "I am sure my son was murdered. I am convinced that it was not suicide, although I have no direct evidence."
Emmanuel was killed by a lead ball fired into his chest by a replica Wild West- style Remington revolver.
But Mr Caillet believes his son - who came to Britain after losing his job in Paris - was the victim of a role-playing fantasy that went too far.
He told Fiscal Graham Buchanan yesterday that a private investigator had claimed Emmanuel had contacted one group in London that carried out `good v evil' adventures.
And he said a map found near the body, with a pencilled route to the top of Ben Alder from Corrour Station, on Rannoch Moor, was not drawn by his son.
Mr Caillet - who made ten visits to Britain after Emmanuel disappeared - said: "How could he have drawn this diagram when he had never been there before?
"I believe that someone else drew it for him, probably to arrange a rendezvous with him at that lonely spot in connection with role-playing."
The father, who has called for an inquiry, added: "The prosecutor assured me that everything will be done to find the truth in Scotland."
Fiscal Buchanan yesterday said: "I told Mr Caillet that police enquiries were continuing and that I expected to receive a full report in due course.
"Once my own enquiries are completed, I shall submit a report to the Crown Office for the instructions of Crown counsel"
The mountain on which Mr Caillet was found lies on the 26,000 acre Loch Ericht estate owned by Swiss multi-millionaire Urs Schwarzenbach.
Yesterday a police spokesman in Inverness said that there was no evidence so far to change their conclusion the death was suicide.
He added: "We are ready to re-open our investigations if the Fiscal asks us to after he considers what Mr Caillet is saying".
No decision on whether a fatal accident inquiry should take place has yet been made.
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| Author: | Mowat, Bill |
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| Publication: | The Mirror (London, England) |
| Date: | Dec 20, 1997 |
| Words: | 474 |
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