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hurriedly arrange a wedding before the holiday.
    All too soon, our break was over and it was time to return home, back to reality. However, three months later, in August, Jeremy called me to say that he was being made redundant. It was not really a shock – he had suspected it was coming due to various rumours – but it was nevertheless disappointing; our lives were relatively happy and uncomplicated up to now. His company could not offer him a position anywhere else and any possible offers would mean moving and I had a good job where I had been with my employer for many years. Jeremy set about signing up with agencies and approaching companies directly, at which he attended several interviews for the role of loss-prevention manager. Aside from this, Jeremy already worked part time on Saturdays filming weddings and other functions. He had been doing this on and off for the past fifteen years and it was an activity that he really enjoyed. He and a colleague had even made a training video on loss-prevention for a large DIY chain which was circulated to all its stores in the UK. Such was his talent that we had been talking about Jeremy setting up his own business – it was just about getting the courage to take the plunge to go from steady, well-paid work to self-employment.
    There were a couple of job offers but they involved weekend work orunsociable hours, which meant the wedding business could not really be a serious consideration. He was torn. He loved his loss-prevention work but it would be a dream come true to make a living from filming. The decision to pursue the filming business was finally made on the basis that if we did not try we would never know if we could make a go of it.
    London Video Productions was thus created and we placed advertisements in wedding magazines, booked wedding exhibitions and got the company on mailing lists in order to capture business for the following year. We needed to purchase more up to date filming and editing equipment and it was during this time that Jeremy came into contact with Lloyd Gerard of Video Action, based in Golders Green, London.
    We could never have envisaged what a devastating impact this man would have on our lives.

Chapter 3
LLOYD GERARD
    L ondon Video Productions had got off to a fairly good start with wedding bookings coming in on a steady basis. Jeremy’s name was getting around with offers of corporate filming work coming in from various companies and schools. Utilising all the equipment bought for the business, he had set himself up a studio in the spare bedroom where he spent most of his time editing videos of weddings and dealing with other aspects of the business. The PC used for editing could also be used as a word processor and, as administrative matters increased, it became necessary for me to help out some evenings. However, it was becoming inconvenient that we were both wanting to use the PC at the same time and so we purchased a computer, manufactured by Tiny, at the end of March 2000, never thinking that such a seemingly normal purchase of hardware would become the subject of such intense scrutiny in the coming years.
    In the quieter moments, Jeremy found working from home difficult. He missed the camaraderie and social aspects of working within a large company. While editing one afternoon he received a phone call from a man named Lloyd Gerard who had a proposition for Jeremy. Gerard was from a company called Video Action, a supplier of video and filming equipment and from whom Jeremy had purchased much of therequirements for our business. He explained that his assistant, who had been with him for ten years, had resigned to take up a position with another company and he was now looking for a replacement. From their meetings and conversations in the past few months, Gerard felt there had been a fairly good rapport between them both and thought that they had some interests in common. He asked if Jeremy would consider working at Video Action part