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And I don't necessarily think that's not true.

This is the thing.

I think this comes back to being an institutional problem where the Met are just like, look, we're under a lot of pressure to solve this case.

Close this case at any cost.

Yeah.

That is like the fucking narrative of this story.

Eventually, Colin Stagg was awarded over £700,000 in compensation, a record at the time, but a small price for what he'd lost.

Lizzie James also got £100,000 in compensation for some reason.

I mean, yeah, all we can do is theorize on that because I personally don't really have that much sympathy for her because she's not a rookie that they pull out of like the police academy and they're like, hey, you, you look like Rachel McHale.

They pick her because she looks like Rachel McHale and they're like, that's obviously his type.

You're going to go and seduce him, et cetera, et cetera.

It's not like they sort of force her into doing this.

She was an experienced undercover police officer who should have known.

And yes, I'm not saying it's easy to stand up to your boss or, you know, to more senior people than you, especially in an organization like the Met.

But the compensation strikes me as odd.

So Robert Knapper is still in Broadmoor and it is thought that he is guilty of at least 106 rapes, exposures and sexual offences.

Though he's never admitted anything, his mum has burned every picture of him that she had.

And also it's like, we don't know what treatment he was undergoing for this paranoid schizophrenia, if any.

And I think I was listening to like quite an interesting podcast that was talking about, you know, all of the challenges people have, like talking about mental health and like whether, you know, obviously we know that when people are treated

for conditions like paranoid schizophrenia etc they're not any more of a danger to society than anybody else would be the problem is like it's at what stage they're in right and if it's untreated undiagnosed and this man is also experiencing violent sexual fantasies of course he's more of a danger and like we said after his mom finds out that he might rape somebody in 1989 she just sends him to a psychiatrist he's like the psychiatrist thinks i'm mad and that's kind of the only thing we know about any sort of psychiatric treatment that he's receiving