I was going through a bad patch and threw a wobbly, I said sorry at the time. Other board member noted that at the time.

I have apologised to Liz and it was accepted.

Who said that I had no sympathy for the girls that Epstein had abused. I’m sorry that they got themselves into that mess.

Why were they there? Money, a good time, who knows there has been no suggestion that they were there against their will.

As far as we know they could all have been 18 except Guffie, of course there could be others who didn’t give their true age. You have to ask where were the parents of those girls while it was going on. You could assume that they never knew or had any hint of it.

At this point in time possibly only the FBI know what went on and ages etc.

Did I disappear for months? Maybe as ill for some months possibly due to the probable heart attack about 3 weeks before Easter and muck up with medication.

I’m only just recovering from whatever caused the problem

In any case you of all people should have known that it was not like me and realised that something was up.

The probably reason that I blew up was that my granddaughter was in India and there was a gunfight or something close to where I thought she was. It wasn’t but a place with a very similar name.

That added to the great deal of stress that I was under at the time.

Re the board being in decline. It’s still going strong but a lot of the older members have gone or no longer post and so we no longer get information on old Hebburn that we used to. Mores the pity.

Am I flooding the board? Only putting up stuff that may be of interest in most part now that I have sort of recovered.

Only my posts to Liz and Sheila were a bit off. Not looked back at the rest.

I hope you are keeping OK Norman together with your family.

I suspect that over the next say 12 months we will have a lot more to worry about.

Allan C.