what's the sib? special investigation branch. right.s devastated. my previous 18 years had just been washed down the pan, basically. i felt very isolated, lonely, and i had nowhere to turn, or i didn't think i had. i recall the day i left, i went back home, and when i got to my home in torpoint in cornwall, everything was just silent. i could hear birds outside, yet i wasn't recognising any sounds. and you were, literally, standing in the office, before being chucked out, and what did they do with your medal? a writer came in with a pair of scissors and just cut them off. off your uniform? yeah. and what was that like? well, again, it was devastating. i told him, in the heat at the moment, i told him he could take all the medals, and he said, "no, i'm not here to take them all, it's just this one i want". and which medal was that? that was my long service, good—conduct medal. and that's the one you want back? that's the one i want back. it's notjust that one medal, it's the three stripes i had. and my promotion, i was an lro, at that ti