A court, civil or criminal, may draw an adverse inference from the destruction of evidence.

In plain terms: if you destroyed it, the judge may assume it said the worst thing it could have said, and may tell a jury they are permitted to assume that too.

Marguerite Okonjo said it to the board in November in one sentence that got back to me third-hand.

She said: “He has just converted a difficult document case into an easy conduct case.”

Did Arthur’s driveway mistake cost us?