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“It’s like pulling out one or two legs of the stool.”

Dressed in a sari, with eyes downcast, she sits down on a wooden stool facing her interrogators.

Because the space was so small, performers were forced to stand on tables, spin on bar stools and weave through the crowd.

She was taken into a small room where there "was only a bed, a tiny stool and a worktop", and that is where she says she first met Ricky Sawyer.

If racing becomes a three-legged stool, the chances of collapse are major.