IN the closing days of the trial,to everyone's astonishment, newspapers announced a sensation: Richard Rampton had obtained from the Israeli Government the hitherto secret memoirs of Adolf Eichmann.

I at once obtained a Court order for their provision to me by close of business that same evening, and I spent several hours that night digitally searching the text for any clues that might help the Defence. It subsequently turned out that the Defence had not been able to open the document at all. (I recommended that they convert to Mac).

It would not have helped them if they had managed to read the hundreds of pages, as nowhere in them did Eichmann claim that the killing had been ordered by Hitler, a central point of the trial argument.