HOGAN: You agree to this interview being taped, Dr Colquhoun?

COLQUHOUN: I’ve no objections.

HOGAN: It’s in your interests as well as ours.

COLQUHOUN: I’ve nothing to hide, Inspector Hogan. (Coughs.)

HOGAN: Fine, sir. Maybe we’ll just start then?

COLQUHOUN: Might I ask a question? Just for the record, you want to ask me about Joseph Lintz - nothing else?

HOGAN: What else might there be, sir?

COLQUHOUN: I just wanted to check.

HOGAN: You wish to have a solicitor present?

COLQUHOUN: NO.

HOGAN: Right you are, sir. Well, if I can begin ... it’s really just a question of your relationship with Professor Joseph Lintz.

COLQUHOUN: Yes.

HOGAN: Only, when we spoke before, you said you didn’t know Professor Lintz.

COLQUHOUN: I think I said I didn’t know him very well.

HOGAN: Okay, sir. If that’s what you said ...

COLQUHOUN: It is, to the best of my recollection.

HOGAN: Only, we’ve had some new information ...

COLQUHOUN: Yes?

HOGAN: That you knew Professor Lintz a little better than that.

COLQUHOUN: And this is according to ...?

HOGAN: New information in our possession. The informant tells us that Joseph Lintz accused you of being a war criminal. Anything to say to that, sir?

COLQUHOUN: Only that it’s a lie. An outrageous lie.

HOGAN: He didn’t think you were a war criminal?

COLQUHOUN: Oh, he thought it all right! He told me to my face on more than one occasion.

HOGAN: When?

COLQUHOUN: Years back. He got it into his head ... the man was mad, Inspector. I could see that. Driven by demons.

HOGAN: What did he say exactly?

COLQUHOUN: Hard to remember. This was a long time ago, the early 1970s, I suppose.

HOGAN: It would help us if you could ...

COLQUHOUN: He came out with it in the middle of a party. I believe it was some function to welcome a visiting professor. Anyway, Joseph insisted on taking me to one side. He looked feverish. Then he came out with it: I was some sort of Nazi, and I’d come to this country by some circuitous route. He kept on about it.

HOGAN: What did you do?

COLQUHOUN: Told him he was drunk, babbling.

HOGAN: And?

COLQUHOUN: And he was. Had to be taken home in a taxi. I said no more about it. In academic circles, one becomes used to a certain amount of ... eccentric behaviour. We’re obsessive people, it can’t be helped.

HOGAN: But Lintz persisted?

COLQUHOUN: Not really, no. But every few years ... there’d ... he’d say something, allege some atrocity ...

HOGAN: Did he approach you outside the university?

COLQUHOUN: For a time, he telephoned my home.

HOGAN: You moved?

COLQUHOUN: Yes.

HOGAN: To an unlisted phone number?

COLQUHOUN: Eventually.

HOGAN: To stop him calling you?

COLQUHOUN: I suppose that was part of it.

HOGAN: Did you speak to anyone about Lintz?

COLQUHOUN: You mean the authorities? No, no one. He was a nuisance, nothing more.

HOGAN: And then what happened?