The summer of 2016 was an auspicious one for Daniel Cowan; he was sorting things out, for the better. His marriage had ended, but he had secured a new job and found himself a nice apartment in Edinburgh, near what had been the family home, in Linlithgow, until his parents moved south in 2006. The post was with the Towry financial services company, of which his father was a director, but earned on merit.