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One of the clients he stole from, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, was a mentally ill paraplegic man on disability.

Among his favourites were the works John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, but Forsyth adored Ernest Hemingway's book on bullfighters, Death in the Afternoon.

Time has not dimmed Ernest Williams' sense of injustice.

On a piece of paper, the group wrote down their names: "Ernest Temple, David Llewellyn and G Gibson".

Later that day, one of the men, Ernest Temple, returned to their home.