Mr MacDonald said he began to think about who had brought him to this point.

He said he thought of John MacKenzie, an osteopath he accused of hurting him.

Also his brother-in-law, Mr MacKinnon, whom he accused of assaulting and assaulting him.

Mr MacDonald went to Mr MacKinnon’s home in Tenague, Skye, the court heard.

In the recording, he said: “I went to his house and confronted him and told him he always bullied me and was horrible to me.

“He looked at me very aggressively and started coming towards me. Without thinking, the gun went off.”

When asked if he pulled the trigger, Mr MacDonald replied “I must have”.

The court then heard him at the home of John and Fay MacKenzie in Dornie, Wester Ross.

He said, “I just wanted to know basically what he did to me.”

Mr MacDonald told police he did not go with the intention of harming people.

He said he fired two shots through a window before entering the house to confront Mr MacKenzie.

Asked what he thought of the police’s calls to drop the gun, he replied: “I lost my mind and whatever came out of my head.”

He said the gun went off during a struggle.

Asked why it went off: “I think I pulled the trigger. I felt that I was defending myself.”

A detective asked him, “You were mad at him, so you shot him?”

Mr MacDonald said he did not want to.

Later in the interview, he said: “If I could turn back the clock and not do any of this, I would.

“I’m so sorry.”

The process continues.