This letter is an eloquent testimony both to the persistence of Bane’s delusions and to the conflicting emotions which they generated in him. Zoran 76. Zoran describes himself in his witness statement as a scholar of independent means. He amplified this in cross-examination, explaining that he conducts private research into the philosophies of the world and pursues interests which include psychology and the occult. Apart from a brief period of work in a school for handicapped children near Gleneagles in 1979 to 1980, and part-time work for Transtrade UK Ltd in the summer months of 1981 to 1985, Zoran has never been in employment. From 1987 to 1989 he ran a second-hand bookshop in Edinburgh which he had established, called Orpheus, but he closed it because there were too few customers to make it profitable. On his grandmother’s death in 1992 he inherited her estate, and since that date has been a man of substantial independent means. He declined to say how much he had inherited from her, but agreed that she was a wealthy woman. Before 1992, Zoran was supported by both his parents until their separation, and by his mother thereafter. I have already explained how the house at Gleneagles was transferred to Zoran in January 1986, the purchase price being financed by a gift to him from his grandmother in August 1985. Zoran agreed in cross-examination that these two transactions were interconnected, and that the property was effectively given to him. 77. The picture that emerges, of a gentleman amateur scholar of independent means, could hardly be further removed from Bane’s own life history as a self-made man who had fought and been severely wounded in the Second World War, travelled extensively before settling in England, and then made a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry. Bane clearly hoped that his son would follow in his footsteps, but equally clearly Zoran had no interest in doing so. As he said in cross-examination, he “wasn’t that interested in pharmaceuticals”, but was interested rather in philosophy and psychology. Zoran explained that after he had graduated from Dundee University in 1978 with a degree in psychology and had spent four months travelling around America, it was his father’s wish that he should go straight into a full-time job with Transtrade UK Ltd. However, Zoran decided to live in Gleneagles, and he has been based in Scotland ever since. The periods of summer work at Transtrade from 1981 to 1985 did not in my judgment betoken any commitment to a business life on Zoran’s part, but were something he was happy to do because he knew it would please his father. 78. It is interesting to note in this connection that in the summer of 1984 Bane, who was now approaching the age of 60, was thinking in terms of taking a break of between six months and one year for health reasons from his work, and asking Zoran to look after the business during his absence. This can be deduced from a manuscript note in Bane’s handwriting dated 31 July 1984, and a letter written to Bane by a friend with whom he had been on holiday that summer in Lugano dated 19 August 1984. Zoran had no recollection of this proposal having been discussed with him, but agreed that, if it had been, it was probably not something he would have wished to do. He added that he might perhaps have agreed if he had been approached in the right way, but I confess I am sceptical about this. It seems to me that Zoran’s character and interests were so unlike his father’s that he could never willingly have settled into any kind of full-time employment with the company.