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The partner of a man who was shot dead by his former colleague while on a dog walk has revealed the devastating moment she discovered he had been murdered.
Brian Low, 65, was blasted with a shotgun by David Campbell, 77, on February 16, 2024, as he walked his dog Millie along a secluded farm track just yards from his small cottage outside Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.
However, Mr Low's death was initially deemed non-suspicious – which one police witness later accepted had been a 'glaring mistake' – and it was not until four days later that police began treating it as murder.
Campbell had become convinced his former colleague had planted evidence to frame him for illegally poisoning birds of prey and rode his wife's e-bike to confront him on a quiet country lane.
Following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow in February, he was found guilty of Brian's murder and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 19 years.
Now, Brian's loving widow Pam Curran has revealed the true horrors of discovering that her beloved long-term partner had been killed during a new BBC documentary series titled Murder Trial: Death of a Dog Walker, which airs on August 11.
During the trial, she described the news that Brian, her partner of 23 years, had been shot as a 'great shock'.
Reflecting on the initial disbelief at finding out her beloved partner Brian had died in the new BBC series, Pam said: 'When I said I had seen Brian on the Friday night, I fully believed I had because I always see him when I finish work.
Pam Curran (pictured) whose partner Brian Low was shot dead by his former colleague while on a dog walk has revealed the devastating moment she discovered he had been murdered in a new BBC documentary series
Brian, 65 (pictured with Pam), was blasted with a shotgun by David Campbell, 77, on February 17, 2024, as he walked his dog Millie along a secluded farm track just yards from his small cottage outside Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland
Pictured: Brian before his death. Pam said: 'It's really difficult to deal with because you have so many unanswered questions like did Brian see the person? Did he die quickly?'
'But when I realised he'd laid there all night I felt really, really bad because I think well if I'd missed him and went looking for him.
'And it's really difficult to deal with because you have so many unanswered questions like did Brian see the person? Did he die quickly?'
Initially, Pam had told police investigators that she had heard Brian speaking to his dog at 6.40am on February 17, the morning his body was discovered.
However, prosecutors later discovered that the shooting had happened the previous afternoon.
She added that when she was questioned in court why her recollection had later changed, she 'wished I could have stood up and said well, have you ever been told one day your partner's dead and the other he's been shot and murdered?'
'Would you be thinking straight at these times?' she added.
During the moving programme, Pam also spoke with Mia Curan, Brian's granddaughter who lived with the couple in their cottage at the time of his murder, about the devastation of losing Brian.
'I was angry more than I was sad at first,' Mia, who was 17 years old at the time Brian was killed, recalled.
'How dare somebody take him away.'
Pam added: 'To deliberately murder somebody, it's unbelievable.'
Campbell in court, as seen in the new episode. In the new BBC series, Pam revealed just how 'scary' it was waiting to hear whether Campbell would be found guilty for his sordid crime
Following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow in February, Campbell (pictured) was found guilty of Brian's murder and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 19 years
In the programme, Pam also spoke with Mia Curan, Brian's granddaughter who lived with the couple in their cottage at the time of his murder, about the devastation of losing Brian
Campbell, a former gamekeeper, roamed free for months after Brian's death as investigators initially dismissed his death as 'non-suspicious'.
Despite being blasted in the neck on February 16, 2024, officers initially thought Brian's death may have been related to a medical condition – and only discovered it was a murder after gun pellets fell out of his body bag when he was being prepared for a post-mortem examination.
A pathologist confirmed he had died from gunshot wounds, and it took police ten days to launch a murder inquiry, having initially failed to seal off the scene.
During the trial, Campbell himself told the jury in court that police 'made a monumental shambles of the investigation'. Police Scotland later apologised to Brian's family for their shortcomings.
Following the near three-week trial, a jury found Campbell guilty of murder by majority verdict. Handing down his sentence, judge Lord Scott described the killing as an 'appalling and senseless act of extreme wickedness'.
Lord Scott said he had read two 'moving' impact statements from Mr Low's partner Pam Curran. The judge told Campbell: 'You robbed her of the chance to say goodbye.'
In the new BBC documentary, Pam revealed just how 'scary' it was waiting to hear whether Campbell would be found guilty for his sordid crime.
'You just don't know what way it's going to go,' she said.
Reflecting on seeing the man who had killed her beloved partner while giving evidence in, Pam said: 'I've known David Campbell for 30 odd years. I was quite surprised at how small a man he looked in that court.
'I did note that when I went in, Dave immediately looked at me and I thought "you're not going to intimidate me Dave Campbell."
'So I just looked back at him and thought no he's not doing that to me because it's not me on trial.'
Pam noted that despite it being challenging to give evidence, she feels 'glad' that she did as it meant she could 'get into court to hear what was being said'.
'You just have to think that the next day is going to be better,' she added.
'I am a very strong person so I think through things practically, I don't draw on emotion.'
During a nearly three-week trial, the court heard Campbell had harboured a 'festering grievance' against Brian.
Campbell had become convinced his former colleague had planted evidence to frame him for illegally poisoning birds of prey and rode his wife's e-bike to confront him on a quiet country lane (pictured)
Campbell was head gamekeeper at Edradynate between May 1984 and February 2018 and Brian was a groundsman between August 2000 and February 2023.
The former gamekeeper would tell colleagues how much he hated Brian. And he insisted he was set up by Brian, who he said had planted evidence to implicate him in wildlife crimes.
Campbell disabled CCTV cameras and put duct tape over a doorbell camera at his home before leaving armed with a shotgun to carry out the 'brutal' killing of his former colleague.
CCTV footage from the afternoon of February 16, shown to the court during the trial, showed a hooded cyclist at 4.18pm heading down a road towards the track where the shooting occurred, and then coming back the other way shortly after 5pm.
Brian was shot at about 4.52pm but his lifeless body was found by a local man at about 8.30am the following day.
In an attempt to cover his tracks, Campbell changed his bicycle tyres in the days after the killing.
However, soil samples taken from elsewhere on the bike showed it had been at the scene of the murder.
In his closing speech, prosecutor Greg Farrell told the jury: 'There, using his shotgun, he shot Brian Low, hitting him on the face, chest and neck, and left him for dead.
'Brian Low was out with his dog Millie, going about his ordinary peaceful life. He was left to die on that track alone.
'That shotgun blast killed him within minutes, or perhaps seconds. Brian Low had no chance. He was unarmed and unaware.
'This was a brazen, brutal and planned execution at a rural spot, a cowardly ambush motivated by nothing more than sheer malice.'
He added: 'David Campbell was an expert shot. He hunted Brian Low down like he was quarry.'