Every day, Jill Bunyan makes the short journey from her home on the Isle of Arran to Kilbride Cemetery where she can weep alone at the grave of her murdered daughter.
On a hill overlooking Lamlash Bay with panoramic views of the ancient spiritual heritage site that is the Holy Isle, the spot is magical, even on the darkest of days.
The grief-stricken grandmother has endured many of those since June was brutally killed 5,000 miles away in California by a man who American prosecutors believe was her husband.
It has been at June's graveside, surrounded by the island's beauty and its close-knit community, that Jill has found the strength for a transatlantic legal battle to get custody of her daughter's five-month-old baby girl, Regina.
It's a fight she's certain law graduate June, who moved to the US with a long-held dream of becoming a criminal defence attorney, would want her to do.
In a hotel close to Arran's ferry terminal, Jill, 61, stares out to sea, taking small sips from a cup of coffee, struggling to find the words to talk about her daughter's horrific death.
She says: 'I don't sleep anymore. I close my eyes and feel every single wound inflicted on her. I will never be the same person again.
'But the shock and grief is turning to anger. And I'll use that to help get my granddaughter. To raise her here, in a community that all knew and loved her mother and have come together to protect me since this all happened.'
It has been almost two years since the 37-year-old moved to the US and a whitewashed apartment block, complete with swimming pool, in an affluent suburb of Los Angeles to pursue her legal dream.
The year-round sunshine and sprawling city with the glamour of Hollywood on the doorstep could not be further from the small Scottish island where she had grown up.
June, who had excelled at school, was a talented speaker and debater with awards for her poetry recitals of Robert Burns.
Aged just five, she delivered in public a word-perfect rendition of The Bard's To a Louse.
She would go on to get degrees in Creative Writing and Business and worked for the charity Shelter before heading to Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University to study law, graduating with distinction.
After a holiday in California, June decided to make the move and opened her own paralegal firm specialising in immigration cases while she studied to pass the US bar exam.
She was in a relationship with Jonathan Renteria, a 25-year-old she had first met on social media in 2023 through a shared passion for martial arts and who she married last May at a Beverly Hills courthouse.
But just six weeks after she had given birth to their daughter, the Scot would be brutally murdered in her own home, her body dismembered and abused.
On September 11, six days after LA detectives believe she was killed, Jill got a late-night knock on the door of the home she shares with June's brother Lyle.
Two Police Scotland officers sent from the mainland broke the terrible news and told her June’s husband was in custody. Jill, her voice faltering, said: ‘It was 11.30pm. Lyle was at work. I couldn’t take in what they were saying at first.
‘They didn’t tell me all the details but they said it was brutal. I just went into shock. I was shaking, I was saying, “no, not June”.
‘My daughter was the fixer of the family, the girl with three university degrees who could take on anything and was not afraid of anything. The glue that kept us all together.’
Almost immediately, Jill asked about Regina and the two officers stared blankly back at her.
One immediately went outside to make a call.
Jill said: ‘They hadn’t known about her. In that moment, I thought she was dead too and I just broke down.’
It would take an hour before the officers were able to confirm that the dark-haired baby, who the family affectionately call Rea, was alive and well and with Renteria’s parents at their home in Los Angeles.
‘In that moment, there was some relief that she was safe,’ Jill said, ‘I didn’t consider the significance of where she was and how she had got there until later.’
Police had discovered June’s body after they had been alerted by hotel staff in Ventura County 70 miles away to a man in a room with injuries to his arm. An alleged handwritten confession was discovered leading them back to June’s Los Feliz home, where police broke in to find her remains.
It would take several days before Jill and the rest of the family would find out all the horrific details. Details that continue to haunt Jill.
It is claimed that in a tape recorded police interview, Renteria confessed that he had put June in a chokehold and killed her after they got into an argument over her failure to lose her baby weight. He claimed that she started packing and had threatened to leave.
CCTV footage is alleged to show he ordered an Uber taxi in the early hours of September 5, taking baby Regina to his parents’ home.
Jill shows me dozens of texts, messages and videos she received almost daily from June in the run-up to her death.
They stopped after September 4 and June’s closest childhood friend, Vicky Tulika, failed to get a message on her birthday the following day.
‘We thought it was unusual but assumed she was working. I wasn’t worried at first. I thought she would call when she could,’ said Jill. She has many questions that she knows may not be answered until Renteria, who remains in custody on $4million bail after being charged with June’s murder and mutilation, finally stands trial.
‘I don’t believe what he has told police about an argument over her weight’ Jill said.
‘Yes, June had had struggles with her weight since she was a child but she was fit and she was so happy with the baby.
‘I don’t understand claims that she was trying to leave. It was her apartment. It was her name on the lease.
‘She was the one who was paying all the bills. She had no need to go anywhere.’
Her voice faltering, Jill added: ‘Most of all I struggle thinking about June’s last moments and what happened. Was Regina in the room when her mum was being murdered?’
Jill’s most pressing battle is now taking on the US family courts in a bid to get custody of her granddaughter. She has engaged a lawyer and is seeking urgent expert advice.
The infant has remained with Renteria’s parents, Mexican-born Julio and his Californian wife Gladys, after being dropped off at their home six days before June’s body was discovered.
Jill said: ‘When I got his parents’ number, I called them. I could not understand why they had not asked questions of their son who arrived in the middle of the night with a newborn they had never met and then left her there.
I knew from June that she and the baby had not met his parents. She had wanted them to but Jonathan would not even consider it.
All his father could say was that he had lost his son and that their home was surrounded by the media. There seemed to be little empathy for our loss.
June and I had called or exchanged messages almost every day since Regina was born and I had barely gone a day without a picture or a video of the baby so I had been desperate for something from them to know she was OK.
But Jill was taken aback after she asked the couple for a picture and the line would keep cutting off. She started messaging them but they would not respond.
She later got a message requesting her address as they wanted her to sign paperwork as they were seeking permanent guardianship of Regina. She has not heard from them since.
Jill said: ‘I will fight this. I find it very difficult to accept that they could have my grandchild and could take her to see their son in custody and we can do nothing. They could also move away and I could lose any chance to see Regina grow up.’
When June’s body was returned to Scotland last month, Jill faced further agony.
Some of her daughter’s limbs were missing and authorities in the US later told her they suspected they had been put in the garbage and that they have been unable to locate them.
Jill dissolved into tears.
She said: ‘It’s been devastating. This was my child. More pain on top of pain.’ What saved her, she said, was the people on Arran who rallied around the family who have lived there for decades.
She added: ‘I am only standing because of them, family, friends, neighbours. They have been incredible and I can never thank them enough. The local police came round every day after I was told of June’s death to check on me. People stop me on the street to give me a hug. I will never, ever forget that kindness.
'They all loved June. She was somebody you’d never forget.
'She went to America because she was chasing her dream. She achieved so much in her life but had so much more to do. I want to be able to tell her daughter that.'
For the moment, the family's focus has to be on getting custody of Regina and being able to put a headstone on June's grave.
Jill said: 'Regina needs to be with us in Scotland, on the island where her mum grew up, surrounded by family and friends and protected by a community who knew and loved June.'
She smiled for the first time and added: 'I went into a cafe the other day and a couple I know a little asked me to sit with them.
'The man said,"you know that if you wanted to get your granddaughter here we would all support you.It takes a village to raise a child,and we'd all help".'