as his delusions developed. The primary focus of Bane’s delusions was initially on his wife, Mirjana, whom he groundlessly suspected of infidelity and attempting to harm him. The focus then widened to encompass the other two close female members of his family, his mother and his sister, and then grew in both scope and intensity until by the end of 1984, as we have seen, he prepared a list of supposed criminals with no fewer than 93 names upon it, including Zoran’s, and thought that he was the victim of “an international sex-vice ring” which was trying to poison or drug him. His home life collapsed, and he began to live as a fugitive. His writings became more and more obviously deranged. I have quoted several examples in the course of this judgment, but hundreds more could easily be added. 211. The conspiracy by which Bane believed he was threatened was a worldwide one, and its members included (apart from members of his family) his bankers, colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry, solicitors and accountants. Bane believed that the conspirators were responsible for events throughout the world, and that organisations such as the IRA and the Mafia were their puppets. As Professor Howard put it, “he sees a sort of huge international conspiracy on a ginormous scale”. That Bane took the worldwide nature of the threat to his personal safety entirely seriously is shown by the fact that he did not think it was safe to visit Switzerland or Yugoslavia, and the fact that he adopted a peripatetic existence, living in hotels and changing his address frequently. The intensity of his delusions about the female members of his family is vividly illustrated by Jovanka’s uncontradicted evidence that Bane refused to attend his mother’s funeral in 1992, or to visit her after she had a heart attack; while Mr Hughes confirmed that he made his loathing for his former wife and his sister absolutely clear. There was no rational explanation for any of this hatred, and one of the most poignant features of the case is the contrast between Bane’s vitriolic statements about his mother and sister and their enduring affection for him. 212. I have emphasised the huge size and comprehensive scope of the supposed conspiracy, and the fact that Bane regarded Zoran as being implicated in it, albeit as a victim, from at least the end of 1984 onwards, because in the light of this evidence alone I find it quite impossible to see how the Court could be satisfied that Bane’s delusions had no effect upon his decision to disinherit Zoran in his 1988 and 1989 Wills. After all, if Bane believed that his son was a criminal, and that he was under the malign influence of the three original arch-conspirators, how could he possibly have appreciated and given proper weight to Zoran’s claims upon his estate? At the very least he might well have supposed, as a rational or semi-rational consequence of his primary delusions, that his fortune would not be safe in Zoran’s hands because of the risk that his wife and sister, or indeed other conspirators, might get their hands on it. Moreover, in the light of the evidence from both experts that untreated delusions will normally persist once they have become established, there is no basis for supposing that Bane may have had lucid intervals when he was free from his delusions and able to “comprehend and appreciate the claims to which he ought to give effect” in a rational manner. 213. However, the evidence does not of course stop there, and I accept the submission of Miss Montgomery QC that the evidence has established a number of compelling links between Bane’s delusions and his decision to disinherit Zoran. The most important of those links seem to me to be as follows.