Just had another look at that last post I wrote, and it occurred to me it might be open to misinterpretation. I wrote:

"For example, in Amadou, you mention the attempt by the killers to claim that he had been reaching for a gun. It's been proved that that was a lie. When I sing that song it is helpful to know that."

What I meant was not that it was a lie to say that the killers claimed that he had been reaching for a gun. I meant that it had been proved that they did make that claim, and that they were lying when they did so.

Isn't this a convoluted language sometimes?