From my article in The Sunday Times today:
“Theuma is no hero. He’s a money launderer, an underground bookie, a whimpering lackey. He’s a murdering bastard and a snitch. His concern for his own skin is loathsome. He is a cartoon figure of a middle-aged man: a self-centred, auto-commiserating, undiagnosed narcissist in a permanent state of man cold. Which is why the evidence he gives is credible.
“People with traits of sainthood are not hired to organise a car bomb. Do not seek genuine remorse in the snitch that turns on his accomplices. And do not believe it if you see it. Look for the pathological egoism that made them kill for money because it’s the same egoism that ranks staying out of jail over any loyalty to their former friends.”