The first thing he said was about 7 p.m. on the third of March.

“I came down to tell you.

That’s the truth and I know it doesn’t help.

“I came out of that four-fifteen meeting and I went and sat in a stairwell for about an hour and I worked out how to say it.

I had it.

I was going to say: he’s alive, he’s upstairs, it’s very bad, they don’t think he’s going to make it, do you want me to take you up.

“And I came into your room and you’d just woken up again and you had that tube thing in your nose and you looked at me and said ‘where are they.’