Fillyboy was very pleased to hear the "Defendant's Statement" written by a skilled criminal lawyer and read out by Cummings.
It has since been examined, analysed and commented on by other skilled lawyers, familiar with statements composed for accused persons.
It was not his own words, and was carefully written to attempt to explain away the facts that have emerged.
The lawyer who wrote it has inserted multiple excuses of varying plausibility so that if one if them fails, he can try to rely on an alternative.
The dates on which he claimed to have begun, and ended, feeling ill were carefully calculated (or, by amazing good fortune, may possibly have been true) to fit round the 14-day isolation period.
Although he claims many precise dates, there was only one where he challenged his questioners to verify it by checking his phone records.
He carefully avoided stating the time and dates he contacted, or didn't, the Prime Minister. There is no mention of telephone calls, and no offer to prove them by phone records.
He omits mentioning that the house he went to was his country home.
When he fears having been observed by witnesses in the Durham area, he is carefully vague in stating when he was seen in public, claiming not even to know the day. This is in contrast to the plethora of dates he uses elsewhere. This is so that, whatever time and date witnesses give, he will claim it was the unspecified day.
His description of the walk in the woods with his family is very unconvincing.
His family outing to a local beauty spot on his wife's birthday is "preposterous."
It is a mistake for anyone to assume that his carefully crafted statement is true, or accurate, or complete.