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When the twoAn hour later I wanted to abscond

500 pm

I call Mary She has just left the cha to dinner with Leo Rothschild

DAY 191

FRIDAY 25 JANUARY 2002

815 am

I’m called out of breakfast over the tannoy and instructed to return to the hospital iht after Gail had gone home She needs all the preliht) before Dr Walling arrives at nine One of the new intake announces with considerable pride that although this is his fifth offence, it’s his first visit to NSC

1030 am

Once surgery is over, Dr Walling joins htmare,’ he says, as if I wasn’t ‘one of them’ He doesn’t tellto, and I don’t enquire However, his next sentence did take me by surprise ‘I needed to take a blood sas, so I ended up injecting his penis He’s not even half your age, Jeffrey, but you’ll outlive him’

200 pm

The new vacuu event in my life

400 pm

I call Mary at Grantchester She has several pieces of news; Brian Mawhinney has received a reply to his letter to Sir John Stevens, the co why I lost my D-cat and was sent to Wayland A report on the circu that decision has been requested, and will be forwarded to Brian as soon as the commissioner receives it

Mary’s next piece of news is devastating

Back in 1999, Julian Mallins had kindly sent a note he had retained in his files (see overleaf), sent to him by Geoffrey Shaw, junior to Michael Hill for the defence in the libel trial In the note, Shaw asks Julian for my two diaries for 1986 (an A4 diary and an Economist diary) ‘in case Michael asks to look at them’ Julian passed the diaries to Shaw and Hill for inspection, and told Mary he is pretty sure that they would have gone through the worthy of comment in them, since they were not an issue in the libel trial Julian added that it would be ‘absolute rubbish’ to suggest that the Star’s lawyers could not have exaela Peppiatt had claimed in the criminal trial were almost entirely blank) in court for other entries