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"Disabled customers deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and not fleeced as soon as they arrive," he said.

Mr Simkin asked if he had "fleeced" others to pay for his lifestyle, and the defendant replied: "No."

Six years later, the deal for George is considered tragically lopsided, the Clippers fleeced and forced to watch assets they surrendered lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to within three wins of an NBA championship.

This made him feel vulnerable for his first two-and-a-half years - and, he says, liable to being fleeced, for example, by those increasing prices because he seemed foreign.

"We feel fleeced. I feel as if I pay a second council tax to live where I am."