Wendell Baptiste made the decision in the April and he made me sit in his office while he explained it to Daniela, not to me, which I thought at the time was a formality and which was not.

He said: “Daniela, I am not going to call you.”

And she said, “Why not?”

And he said — and I am giving this at length because it is the single most useful thing anybody said to my family in two years —

“Because you gave a recorded statement containing two quotations that I cannot support and the defence can disprove.

“That is not your fault.

You have a letter from a neurologist explaining precisely why it happened and I believe every word of it and so would most juries.