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France dealt with similar conditions in Exeter against Ireland and, by a smaller margin, also found a way through the maelstrom.

But politics found them, and provided what may have seemed like clarity in a maelstrom of anything but.

“It was a maelstrom of topic A to topic G to topic C to topic Q,” said a senior SSA official who was in the room.

It was into this maelstrom that Potter stepped.

Through a family spokesperson, Simon Patterson also told the court of his grief - which has been compounded by the "abrasive" court process and at-times "deplorable" media maelstrom which followed the crimes.