Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith

Got it.

Among those signatories were Lord Goldsmith, then Attorney General for England and Wales, Linda Clark, then Advocate General for Scotland, Charles Kennedy, then leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ken Livingstone, then Mayor of London, and Nicholas Lyell, a former attorney general.

There was a conservative MP named Peter Bottomley who stayed on this case for decades.

In September 1997, Bottomley gave up his seat at Princess Diana's funeral in Westminster Abbey in order to fly to Florida and appear before an appeals court on behalf of Krishna Maharaj.

Yeah, I think one of the things that I think is really important to bring in here, and one of the many things I appreciated about the book, David, is that You don't allow this to become a straightforward, simplistic left versus right or right versus left argument.

You are highly critical of the contemporary right and the common good movement, but you also equally turn the lens towards the political left, including, use the example you talk about, Tony Blair, the Iraq war, the pressure placed on Lord Goldsmith around the question of legality at the time.

which I guess is talking to your point about what all these actors who you've just described, they don't necessarily have to all have that sort of religious, if we want to use that word, lens, but it's almost like this vacuum starts to present itself.

And whether you are on left or right almost sort of becomes It's almost like indifference in a little way.

I think he's a dangerous young man, very cold and calculating, and I think people need to be protected from him.

However, the Crown Prosecution Service referred the case papers to the Attorney General because it considered the sentence unduly lenient, and that it failed to meet the gravity of the case.

The then Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith Casey, in turn handed the case to the Court of Appeal in London, which has the power to change a sentence to any other within the remit of a Crown Court, under the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

And on Thursday the 15th of May 2003, Lord Justice Kennedy, sitting with Mr Justice Pitchers and Sir Michael Wright, agreed that this minimum term of five and a half years fixed by the trial judge was unduly lenient, and doubled the minimum tariff to 11 years.

But that wasn't the end of the case, for in 2010, Honeyset was back in court in connection with it, this time with a different story.