“When a decision of this magnitude is being made by a surrogate and a parent is in the same building, I now ask to be told the room number, and I look at the chart myself, and I take ninety seconds to do it.

I have done it eleven times since March and on two occasions what I found did not match what I had been told, and on both of those occasions the discrepancy was innocent.

“I would not have started doing that without your letter.

I am aware that this is of no use to you at all.”

The other thing in that note, and I want it here because it is Lorna and because it is the only documentary evidence of her that exists:

Paternal grandmother present throughout.