He set it up in the September of 2026, two weeks after the money came, through Imogen, as a standing instruction, with no conditions and no contact and no card at Christmas.

He has not spoken to her since the sixteenth of September 2025 and does not intend to.

I asked him why and he gave me an answer I did not like and have come round to.

He said: “Because she’s eighty-four and she hasn’t got anything and I’ve got six hundred thousand dollars of her house.

“And I’m not doing it for her, Dad.

I’m doing it because I do not want to be a man who had the option and didn’t.”