You probably need to be of a certain age to remember the scale of the fraud committed by Asil Nadir around 1990, as his company, Polly Peck, collapsed leaving thousands of shareholders with nothing and Polly Peck £550 million in unsustainable debt.

Nadir managed to flee the UK as the net was closing in, to Turkish Northern Cyprus, where there is no extradition treaty and stayed there for 17 years, returning to the UK in 2010 with heart disease to face the music, though he maintains there is no music to face.

The sum embezzled amounts to £29 million and he has received a ten year jail sentence for this high profile crime.

Whether he felt a twinge of guilt at this late stage of life (70), or maybe in his mind he felt that the National Health Service offered him a better chance of dealing with his heart disease than the medical facilitites in northern Cyprus, remains to be seen but maybe he should have checked out the current state of the NHS before returning.