“Arrived at Westmead – they changed the lock – I couldn’t open the house. Zoran arrived and open [ed] the door and said that they changed the lock months ago. What the monsters – that was last time I saw Zoran – the bastard.!!!!” The natural reading of this entry, in my view, is that when Bane arrived at Westmead House he found that the locks had been changed and he was therefore unable to let himself in. When Zoran opened the door, he said that “they”, which in this context must I think mean he and his mother, had changed the lock some months earlier. In his witness statement Zoran says, and I readily accept, that he was never involved in changing the locks of the family home. His evidence is that the locks were changed by his mother after Bane had moved out. The reason for this was that Bane was in the habit of appearing at unpredictable times to collect clothes and other possessions. He would come in when he felt like it, even though he was no longer living there. Mirjana did not want him to do this, and after a while she changed the lock to make herself feel more secure. 86. The diary entry suggests that the date of this episode, 24 July 1985, was the last time when Bane saw Zoran, whereas Zoran’s own evidence is that they saw each other for the last time in September. On this point too I accept Zoran’s evidence. I do not doubt that the diary accurately records the date when Bane arrived at Westmead House to find the locks had been changed, but the comment that this was the last time when he saw Zoran is self-evidently a later addition and may well not be strictly accurate. The important points, to my mind, are, first, that Bane evidently regarded Zoran as at least partly to blame for the changing of the locks (for why else would he refer to him so emphatically in this entry as a bastard?), and secondly, that Zoran and his father never met again after the summer of 1985. 87. That is not to say, however, that Bane forgot about Zoran, or that he always harboured hostile feelings towards him. On the contrary, Zoran’s evidence is that he never fell out with his father, but just stopped having contact with him, and there was never any animosity between them. While this may be true so far as Zoran is concerned, it cannot be wholly true from Bane’s point of view as the diary entries testify. Nevertheless, even after the lock-changing incident Bane was still at times capable of both feeling and expressing affection for his son. For example, on 16 March 1986 he wrote to Zoran saying that he should be very grateful to his aunt and mother (in connection with the gift of the Gleneagles property) and ending: “With a God wish, not Lucifer, maybe one day our hearts will meet somewhere in that universe!” Later that year he sent £50 to Zoran on his birthday, and a further £50 to Zoran’s girlfriend, Ann, whose birthday also fell in early July. Some years later, in 1992, a diary entry dated 31 May records “Zoran accident. Fall from the cliff during climbing. God save you!”, and a further entry dated 1 July of that year records that on a holiday at the hotel Moresca in Ischia, near Naples, he played tennis at the same club where he had played 20 years before with Zoran, who was then a boy of 15. The diary entry concludes: “Very down – nostalgia – crying!!!”, and a further entry dated 9 July, Zoran’s birthday, reads as follows: