"They gave me a copy of the surveillance report," she said.

"And you gave a copy of the surveillance report to my lawyer, right?"

Clueless Pashley looked at the surveillance report and slammed it down on the table.

"And is there any truth to what he's saying about their surveillance reports being falsified?"

That night the daily surveillance reports came to Scotland Yard where, as always, they were put on computer.

But last week a rather strange surveillance report came to my attention.

The first documents - full surveillance reports - contained "pure speculation, not about myself, but many other people".

According to my surveillance reports, Blake didn't leave his flat at all yesterday.

He had that day's surveillance report on Burinski and nothing had changed.

Which was undoubtedly old news to him if he were getting surveillance reports.