In the December, four weeks after his daughter was taken, he received nine words demanding that he abandon a fraud suit and a criminal referral.

And he did not.

I have asked him about it once, in the March, in a corridor outside a courtroom, and I asked it badly, and what I actually said was something like: how.

And he said: “Everybody asks me that and I’m going to tell you the true answer and you won’t like it.

“I didn’t do it because I’m brave.

I did it because the agents told me to.