Adrian Delia says he wants to see the original of this document. It’s in his office.

Manipulating information is one of the hallmarks of a fraud. Adrian Delia has said that he wants to see “the original” of the two documents I published. But he has it already: the solicitors’ letter was faxed to his office on the number still used by his law firm, so if he wants to see the original all he has to do is look through his archived files.

The other document is a bank transfer statement which is clear and unequivocal. There is no need to see the original because obviously, it looks exactly like the scan I published, the difference being that I redacted the name and address of the person who paid the money into Adrian Delia’s Jersey bank account to protect that person’s privacy.

It is, however, cast-iron evidence that Adrian Delia lied when he said he had no overseas account, because his name is right there on it – Adrian Delia/Jersey – and if he thinks that HSBC has perpetrated a calumny on him, he had best take it up with the bank for which he worked for so many years as a lawyer.

Delia also told the press, deceptively, that his signature is not on the documents. I am truly astonished at a professional level that not one of the journalists came back at him with: “Why would your signature be on either document? One is a bank transfer advice issued as standard by the bank’s computer and the other is a letter from a firm of solicitors faxed to your office. You are the recipient and not the sender.”

There are days when I think I should give up and live a quiet life, then I decide that I have to keep on fighting these crooks.