But he was adamant that with his 70th birthday approaching, and with the row finally settled, there was no way he would be having a changeofheart this time.
However, if this case is going to send Mandell and Harrington to prison for many years then the government had better start talking about some laws that have been broken rather than a one-time stock broker (Grabowski) who had a changeofheart because he no longer believed his own sales pitch.
Last week, the trust's interim chief executive Derek Smith said "no change is not an option" and promised that patients would remain "at the heartof what we do".