Mr Connor said itwas "a complicated case with a complicated financial background", and so the confiscation order would not be completed within the six-month time-frame required by legislation.
But then time and more time went by, and now my original crime was compounded by the crime of not telling her about it for so many years and things were too complicated and I couldn't tell her the truth.
The immensely complicated astronomical clock built by Richard of Wallingford, abbot of St Albans, wasso complex it took eight years to run through its full cycle of calculations and was the most intricate machine ever built up to that point.