175. Dr Reveley did not dispute this evidence, as far as it goes, but pointed out that it is perfectly possible for a person to be in the grip of a delusion involving a member of his family and at the same time to retain normal family feelings. (c) Bane’s attitude to the Conservative Party 176. Mr Simmonds took Dr Reveley through the relevant documents referred to in her second report, beginning with Bane’s letter to the Prime Minister dated 10 December 1984 enclosing a donation of £5,000. I have not referred to this letter before, and will quote a few extracts from it: “Dear Prime Minister I am living as a fugitive for the last 5 months. I am 8 days younger than you and I graduated B.Sc. of chemistry. I believe you are the only person in Free World who can save us of the bestial Monsters! It seems to me that somebody not Gaddafy, IRA, Palestinian or Mafia, they are only the marionettes, organised many years ago a type of International University to study human weaknesses and to exploit them in a very sophisticated and for us Free World devastating way … You are the only hope for our party dignified, decent and honest future! Please rehabilitate Mr Cecil Parkinson he is a victim of organised crime … I am enclosing £5,000 – to fight the evil-wicked Demons – SATANS and I am fully on your disposal.” 177. Dr Reveley’s evidence was that this letter displayed delusions about the role and powers of the Conservative Party and Mrs Thatcher, particularly because of Bane’s stated belief that only Mrs Thatcher could save the country from the bestial monsters by whom he was being pursued. When it was put to her that it was perfectly natural for Bane to write to the Prime Minister, in the light of his deluded beliefs about an international conspiracy, she said that her experience of receiving similar letters herself from patients was that “they don’t make me feel that I am in some way a special person, and the only person that can help; I think that that person is unwell, and that is overwhelmingly what that letter means.” She then went on to say: “[Bane] had a lot of floating, free form delusional ideas which he picked up out of various places, he had a long-standing association with the Conservative Party, and I think they were implicated in his delusional system, because of letters like this. I don’t think you can say it is quite separate. He had a