And he said:
"Every single thing else fitted. The meetings, the hotel, the eleven o'clock messages, the way you went quiet in November. All of it fitted and I had it in a row and I could look at it.
"And then you didn't take anything. And that never fitted anywhere. For five years.
"So I put it in a drawer and I did not open the drawer, because if I opened it I was going to have to look at the rest of it again."
And then he said: "I knew at some level in about 2022. I've known for four years that something in it was wrong and I did not check, because checking would have meant I'd got it wrong about the whole of it."
Four years.
That man had one loose thread and he knew it was a loose thread and he spent four years not pulling it.
