Cooper describes the event on his website as such: “Freddie was his usual self, sometimes hooking me with his penis to the leg or arm – it was all perfectly normal, to me at least. It was only later when I was provided with the police statements that I realised otherwise. Bloom, the ‘expert’, had been speaking to people on [the] boat. Part of Bloom’s police statement read: ‘You won’t get near, he is wanking off the dolphin.’”
There is a moment in the podcast where you hear Cooper recount how the police officers who later interviewed him couldn’t keep a straight face when repeating the accusation that he had been “wanking off a dolphin”. Did Milligan worry what listeners would make of it all? “You have to use a bit of the language of the day,” she argues. “Those words are in the court case; we’re not being salacious."