unwell

Dan said he had provided a statement at the time, but it did not proceed any further because he was "extremely unwell at that point".

His family called for an ambulance after he had been unwell for several days and began experiencing breathing difficulties at his home in the Beechmount area of west Belfast.

Both his parents are elderly and unwell and his greatest fear had been never seeing them again.

Cowen, from Morecambe in Lancashire, was not present in court as jurors were told he is "seriously mental unwell" and in hospital.

Multiple sources who approached the BBC described feeling "paranoid", "insecure", "isolated" and "mentally unwell" after learning that "secret files" were being kept on them.