So it went to the police, and to the insurer, and to the board.
Grady was dismissed on the third of November. He was charged in the March. He pleaded guilty in the June and got fourteen months, suspended for two years, plus a compensation order and two hundred hours.
The judge said, out loud, that it was the most sympathetic set of facts he had seen attached to a charge like that in some years, and then he said that it did not change what it was.
I agree with both halves.
And here is the thing that people find hardest, which I will say once: I would have paid for Imelda Foyle. Immediately. Without a conversation.
Twenty-nine hundred a month is not a sum that would have registered against that company, and it would have been the easiest money I ever signed off, and he knew that too.
