While there is temptation here to indulge in cheap ridicule of what is surely to be one of the final, sad, chapters of a once gifted life, it’s at times like this that I choose instead to reflect upon a genius we all came to know and love – however long ago it now seems.

Well if it gives him joy and happiness I am glad, that kid just wasn’t right and the media hype, money, fame didn’t help. I think he will struggle to become a devout Muslim. I assume he is going to be a Sunni?