He has met the girls four times.

He has never met my mother and has said he does not intend to, and when I offered to arrange it he said, “Why would I want to do that to myself?”

What he said about her, the only time he has said anything, was this.

He said: “My mother told me when I was fourteen that a woman used to send money.

“And what she said about it — and she was not a bitter person, she was quite fair about most of it — was: she was not paying me for you.