Allen & Overy’s PR head Iain Rodger has admitted to The Diary that his staff vetting procedures are not up to scratch following last week’s revelation that his head of banking PR Sean Twomey is actually an old lag currently residing in a Nevada jail (you heard it here first…).

Our alarming discovery, following an internet search which revealed that a chap by the name of Sean Twomey is languishing in a Nevada federal prison, prompted Rodger to spend a fruitful morning on the ‘net making sure the rest of his staff are neither in chokey nor likely to be in the future.