97. Mr Rinaldi was also able to provide vivid corroboration of Bane’s nomadic existence when he lived in his office. Mr Rinaldi says that the owners of the office building became aware of this, and put locks on the bathroom doors to discourage Bane from living there. However, he was not discouraged, and at night would defecate and urinate into a bucket on the office floor which he would empty in the toilets the following day. He also used to cook in his office, on a one-ring stove on his desk. In 1988 Bane was still living in the office, and Mr Rinaldi tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a property of his own. They used to joke that he could not continue to live like a fugitive (there had been a TV series called “The Fugitive”). In 1989 Transtrade UK was put into liquidation and the office was closed. After that, Bane had to live in hotels. Mr Rinaldi kept pressing him to buy a home, and eventually he agreed to do so, purchasing 5 Audley Road at the end of the year. 98. In his witness statement Mr Rinaldi described Bane’s relations with his family after the onset of his illness as follows: “20. With the onset of this serious illness in the mid-1980s, Bane began to deny that members of his family were actually members of his family. When I referred to his mother, I remember him saying “she is not my mother”. Also, when referring to Zoran, he would say “he is not my son”. I believe he made these statements because of his mental state. However, during a visit I made to see him in [1989], Bane twice suddenly said that he had made a mistake with regard to his family and his behaviour towards them and he wished he had not left them and divorced his wife. He said this suddenly after lunch one day and then also at Heathrow as I was leaving for the US, but in both cases it was a throwaway remark … 21. I believe that he loved his son, Zoran. This is because he told me so. Although, as I have stated above, he used to undergo behavioural swings. Soon after saying he loved his son he would make the statements I referred to in the previous paragraph. He never communicated with Zoran …” 99. In cross-examination Mr Rinaldi confirmed that he did not understand the statements that Bane’s mother was not his mother, or that Zoran was not his son, literally. He also added that Bane never “said one ill word to me about Zoran”. There were two occasions when Bane sought to enlist Mr Rinaldi’s assistance in getting Zoran to come to study at Princeton, first in 1979/80 when Zoran was on his four month visit to the United States (when he stayed with Mr Rinaldi and his family in Maryland, and Mr Rinaldi arranged a Greyhound Bus trip for him), and again in about 1986. 100. Finally, I should mention that Mr Rinaldi confirmed that Bane was a great admirer of Mrs Thatcher, and “became very infatuated with her” after the recapture of the Falkland Islands. However, Mr Rinaldi was not aware that Bane had become a member of the Conservative Party in 1982.