As well as being permitted to question their interviewees only via Russian officers, the Scotland Yard detectives seem unlikely to be given access to any serving FSB men.

The Scotland Yard paperwork also provided evidence that the News of the World had been involved with Mulcaire in his hacking of the mobile phones of at least two other football figures.

In a small yard in Luss, Scotland, Kate and Effie are tying the baskets to the branches of the Christmas tree and filling them with corns.