And then Stevie began to sob. Unexpectedly Lee reached out to grab her hand. He gently squeezed it, despite the conversation's lurid direction. 'Mum, surely you know that things are different now...'

'When I met Ray, he brought it all back out. These... daydreams I had... started to fill me with guilt and remorse again. I wondered at times if I was some kind of dangerous offender just waiting to happen.'

'You're definitely no sex offender, mum,' Lee intervened and then scoffed at hearing himself say that. How much more surreal could this day get? 'Well,' his cheeky sense of humour teased, 'you haven't had any complaints at least!'

Was...