Little lungs are still paying for Dieselgate every day,” says Jemima Hartshorn, the founder of the Mums for Lungs campaign group. Her own young daughter has suffered serious breathing problems, which at their worst involved the harrowing experience of having to pin her to the floor to administer an inhaler.

It is 10 years since the scandal erupted, exposing cars that pumped out far more toxic fumes on the road than when passing regulatory tests in the lab. But Dieselgate is far from over.

The excess pollution emitted has already killed about 16,000 people in the UK and caused 30,000 cases of asthma in children, experts have estimated. A further 6,000 early deaths will occur in coming years without action, they say.

Oh my god. So, they caused an estimated 16,000 deaths, in the UK alone. And 6000 more are about to follow. Only for driver’s convenience - and companie’s profits. In what a world do we live that this is considered ethically different from murder?