MK clearly had no idea that QU was still in the room as she launched into an angry account of his behaviour. She had placed herself in extreme danger and it was up to me to protect her.

I grabbed her by the pony-tail and dragged her along the floor and out of the room as fast as I could, praying that QU hadn’t heard the tirade of abuse.

Unfortunately he had. He followed us into the corridor and made it known that he had listened very carefully to each and every bitter word that MK had uttered.