When wealthy betting shop magnate Alun Wilmott is shot and killed after returning home early amid a terrifying home invasion, it’s assumed that he is the unlucky victim of a burglary gone wrong.
The culprits abscond with a huge amount of cash from Alun’s personal safe, leaving his wife and daughter traumatised in their wake.
Vera suspects an inside job and immediately targets the affluent neighbourhood’s shady head of private security, Ciaran Duggan, whose history of violent crime calls his reformed character into question.
As Vera’s team delves deeper into Alun’s life, she discovers a paranoid and possessive man whose family and business interests were being targeted on all sides. Wilmott’s passion project, a greyhound racing stadium where his empire first began, is a drain on company funds in the age of online gambling.
Ruthless, cost-cutting business policies made enemies out of disgruntled gamblers and over-worked bookmakers alike.
The sharks were circling, calling for Alun to be sacked as CEO. But as Vera soon discovers, the truth behind Alun’s tragic death may be far more insidious and meticulously planned than first appears.
VERA, Season Final – Sunday 30 August 8.40pm on ABC and iview
