I really enjoyed every single meeting I had with Bill. He was so knowledgeable, so helpful, had a wonderfully soothing mellifluous voice, and of course always like to meet in convivial surroundings. I first met Bill at the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime. He was running a special session looking at the activities of the Italian mafia. It was held in the college cricketing pavilion on a very hot day. It felt like a very special and secret occasion, away from the rest of the conference. Bill very much displayed his unique dress sense. I immediately thought he was an undercover operative! I learnt a lot, as I always did, from Bill. Bill was particularly kind when my eldest daughter was considering Exeter as a potential choice of university. We met in the huge “student pub”. Where else? This was followed by a “warts and all” alternative tour of the university, seeing the parts you wouldn’t ordinarily reach on an open day, lunch at the Exeter brewery (well, we had to ensure we stayed hydrated), and dinner at the most unassuming Chinese restaurant in the bus station. Bill asked my daughter what Chinese food she had tried before. He then announced that she wouldn’t be eating any of that, as university, and life itself, is about having the courage to broaden horizons, try new things, and enrich life. That is the philosophy we should all live by. If only more of us adopted the same attitude. There was also an awful lot of thoroughly researched and well argued substance behind his jovial exterior, which I much appreciated and will miss very much.