In light of the dreadful events in the UK this week (Wayne Couzens sentencing after Sarah Everard’s murder and the Met Police’s piss poor response) your response was both remarkably restrained and reflective in the circumstances, Angharad.

Fifteen years ago somebody attempted to spike the drinks of my daughter and her friend at a bar in London. My daughter had the awareness and presence of mind to contact first the police and then me with her location before anything else happened. I was working in Cambridge at the time.

That I arrived before the police tells you all you need to know. Thankfully, the bar staff had been vigilant and solicitous and had taken good care of the girls and paramedics were present, but the perpetrator or perpetrators were long gone. If the barman hadn’t been streetwise, who knows.

We called the police again. Their response was basically, no harm done then. They didn’t even want to log it as a crime. Just two silly girls. Victim blaming. They never came out.

Misogyny and sexism in the UK police is systemic and has been for a long, long time. My daughter recovered reasonably well, but her friend was traumatised for years.