It seems it needed to be disseminated that this was abhorrent.
Fergal Sharkey had been campaigning for decades about this to raise awareness, but it seems to be the retired statistician from Oxford University using Freedom of Information to punt this on a bit further.
All rather grim, which other travesties are to surface in coming years.
After the Post Office scandal mini-series on ITV, detonated the other year it seems to be the only way to reach out to people.
There’s no doubt other skeletons jangling in the closet.