Libor scandal: You can bank on there being a scapegoat

‘Tom Hayes was, no doubt about it, something of an oddball. Every office has one. Usually it’s a bloke: someone good at his job, perhaps, and so grudgingly tolerated, but never quite one of the lads.

Maybe his work colleagues snigger at him behind his back, as they did with Hayes. They called him Tommy Chocolate – as they downed drinks at the pub, he preferred to sip a hot chocolate and munch on biscuits, and, well, that’s just bizarre, isn’t it?

He was a decent enough derivatives trader, but shy and socially inept, and he had another nickname too: Rain Man, after Dustin Hoffman’s autistic character in the 1988 movie of the same name. You get the picture. No one was much surprised when he was diagnosed with mild Asperger syndrome.’

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