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British grandparents, Lindy and Malcolm Robertson, had spent more than a decade sailing around the world when their trip came to a brutal and bloody end. Now a year after Malcolm's brutal murder by pirates, Lindy remembers their life together.

It was the retirement dream that turned into a nightmare. British grandparents Lindy and Malcolm Robertson were on the yachting trip of a lifetime - spending almost 11 years travelling the globe - but it was all to end in a violent murder.

The Robertsons had built up a successful bakery and coffee shop business in the south of England and rewarded themselves with a retirement on the high seas.

Malcolm qualified as a yacht master, Lindy became a day skipper, and the couple bought a yacht and called it Mr Bean after their chain of coffee shops.

Sailing their way around the Caribbean, down the coast of South America, and across the Pacific to New Zealand, they headed to South East Asia.

But in March 2009 their odyssey came to an horrific end.

They were just one day away from Malaysia, where they intended to leave the boat to fly to England for their son's wedding.

Moored close to one of the Butang group of islands, off the coast of Thailand, they spent their last day enjoying the sun.

But as they slept that night, three young Burmese men crept aboard the boat, attacked Malcolm and slit his throat.

Lindy only realised his fate when she found herself treading in Malcolm's blood, spilled across the deck. "I can only describe it as a slaughterhouse," she remembered.

Lindy, now 60, was bound and gagged by the attackers, who kicked her and hit her with a hammer to force her to control the boat.

The three young pirates - two men in their early 20s and a 17 year old boy - were Burmese-bonded labourers who had been sold to a Thai fisherman.

They had escaped from the fishing boat and hidden on one of the Butang Islands, where they decided to hijack the Robertsons' boat.

It’s now a year since the horrific events. The remarkably resilient Lindy remembers her life with Malcolm in England, working together and raising a family.

In conversation with Lucy Ash, Lindy described the shocking, violent events of that night, her compassion for her attackers, and how, despite her experiences, she believes Malcolm would still like her to sail again one day.