consider this... A is up before the beak. The beak says "what was your friend Y doing on the 31st october last" A thinks hard and says "I am not going to answer that your honour on grounds that I may incriminate myself" because A knows damn well what was going on and the beak shouldn't know cos his friend Y will be going down for a long stretch. Lets apply this to your little scenario. Y asked X some questions that X couldn't/Wouldn't answer cos they would implicate YOU in somthing (who cares what). Y, being an intelligent sort of person adds 3 and 3 to get 14, says ta v. much to X and proceeds to take action in your (presumed) absence based on info Y has NOT been told but has WORKED OUT for themselves. You then loose off in a public forum which you know both X and Y frequent - VERY bad form old chap, after all they havn't yet posted the "should I ditch the bastard" thread.