An emerald ring my violent ex-partner gave me, promising he would change his ways. He didn’t and ended up in gaol. The Thing is he was defrauding the health service, and I am certain the ring was bought with the proceeds. Some of his loot was paid back, but not the ring, and I am unsure whether to give it to the authorities or sell it myself as a kind of compensation. So it sits in limbo at the back of a drawer next to Hover Fly’s medals, unseen and unwanted.