The signatures of Bane and Mr Amison, and the initials of Ms Gregory, do indeed appear in the margins of the 1989 Will, opposite the first three of the alterations to which I have referred, and I have no doubt that, as an experienced solicitor, Mr Amison would not have placed his signature against the alterations unless they had been made before the 1989 Will was executed. He was not cross-examined on his evidence, and on balance I am satisfied that the 1989 Will was duly executed. 58. On the following day, 14 July, Mr Whittaker Jones telephoned Bane at the latter’s request. Bane thanked Mr Trower, according to Mr Whittaker Jones’ attendance note, for a “lovely and delicious lunch”. Bane then mentioned a name which he had been trying to remember – Sir Alexander Glen – and an “interesting conversation” ensued. The attendance note throws no light on the nature of this conversation, and Mr Whittaker Jones has no present recollection of anything about the 1989 Will or Bane apart from their discussion of art over lunch on the previous day. Sir Alexander Glen, who died in 2004 aged 91, had spent much of the Second World War as an intelligence officer in Yugoslavia, and had also been chairman of the Advisory Council of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1978 to 1984. It is therefore not at all surprising that he should have been a figure of interest to Bane, and this small example serves as well as any other to make the important point that, despite his delusions, Bane was a man of wide cultural and intellectual interests, who could and did have perfectly normal conversations with a wide variety of different people, and could also be very congenial company. 59. On 18 July Bane drafted, but did not send, a letter addressed to Lieutenant- Colonel Barton at the Conservative Board of Finance. The draft was in the familiar rambling, delusional style, but it included a reference to the events of 13 July in the following terms: “On the 13 July I had a very pleasant lunch at the offices of Mr Anthony Trower and D. Whittaker Jones and I do hope, when I fade away, your ASSOCIATION will be better off.” A scribbled note on the letter indicates that although Bane originally intended to send it to Lieutenant-Colonel Barton, he subsequently decided to address it to the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Mr Kenneth Baker MP. On 3 August he duly sent it to Mr Baker, under cover of a letter of that date, together with copies of two of his earlier letters to the Board of Finance, including the letter of 2 May 1989 which is one of his most demented effusions. Mr Baker replied on 13 September 1989, thanking Bane for his letter of 3 August and saying: “Your enclosed letters made very interesting reading and I am most heartened by your generous support for the Prime Minister and the Party.” 60. Around the same time, Bane placed Transtrade UK Ltd into members’ voluntary liquidation, and in October and early November interim distributions totalling £200,000 were made to him as shareholder. 61. A further development in late 1989 was the ending of Bane’s nomadic existence with the purchase by him of 5 Audley Road, Ealing, London W5 for £300,000. Bane instructed Trowers & Hamlins in relation to the purchase, and conduct of the matter