Last week, departed Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond called the actions of his Libor-fixing colleagues "reprehensible" and claimed to find it "sickening".
But both of these terms seem like poor substitutes for the word "criminal".
If the Serious Fraud Office's ongoing investigation into abuses of Libor results in criminal prosecutions, this will be a major step towards satisfying the public that the lessons of the four-year omni-scandal of Britain's banks may be learned, and may stay learned.
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