Earlier this week, something strange happened.
A real person – or at least he looks real – was found guilty by a jury of conspiring to manipulate LIBOR.
Then, something even stranger took place.
This real person – Tom Hayes, or “Rain Man” as he was affectionately known in rate-rigging circles – was sentenced to 14 years in jail for his role as the supposed “connective tissue” that held the global fix fixing infrastructure together.