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"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied."

"So it behoves us to do the least we can to try and help them."

It ill behoves either him or Bruckner to try to frame this as evidence of a vindictive philistine world.

It would behove him to consider, though, that a teenager also deserves to be defended in the face of much worse things besides.

It does not behove – behoove? – us to stoop to the level of feeding stories.