I married a man in prison for money. Three years later his conviction was overturned — and eight days after he came home he put a black box on the kitchen table and said, “Now it’s my turn.”

Nineteen thousand four hundred dollars between the January of 2019 and the October of 2021.

Out of the salary of a charity operations manager, which I have seen, and which was fifty-one thousand a year.

And because he was the operations manager — and because those four children had to appear on a register, and a closed program does not have a register —

he ran the payments through the trust’s own account and then reimbursed the trust out of his own.

In. And then out again, eleven days later, matched to the cent.

In and out. Every term. Logged in pencil in a notebook with four names in it.

That is irregular.

It is irregular, and it was stupid, and it would have got him sacked in any month of any year.

He has never once argued that it was not, including to Imani Osei, including under oath.

An auditor who opens that account in the autumn of 2021 sees money going out of a charity, every term, to a program the board voted to close in 2018.