Directly addressing the then-president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, the slain editor predicted an inquiry would swiftly follow his death, "but like all the inquiries you have ordered in the past, nothing will come of this one, too".
This is not the whitewash sceptics had previously predicted the inquiry by the former senior Whitehall mandarin would be.
She added "no wonder my bloody hair is falling out!" and predicted the inquiry would find "no case to answer".
Last month a parliamentary inquiry predicted that by 2015 independent convenience stores and grocers are "unlikely to survive" and independent newsagents and filling stations are "very unlikely to survive".
The company says it has had several inquiries, but predicted the auction could take three to six months.
The inquiry is predicted to be highly critical of the BBC for failing to catch Savile during his lifetime.
Simon Bailey, head of the national coordinating unit Operation Hydrant, said his team was expecting to be given 30,000 reports of new child sexual offences by the end of the Goddard inquiry, and predicted the rate of referrals of allegations of abuse would increase.
And I'd be concerned if the civil servants who are involved in organising and running the inquiry are predicting such a lengthy inquiry".
He gave evidence via videolink to the Hutton inquiry but, as predicted, seems to have got away with an entirely secret session at the hands of Chilcot's panel.
Although there was irritation among senior figures at Scotland Yard at being bounced into an inquiry, one source predicted that it would be quickly overtaken by a desire to do the best job possible.
However, a major gap in this study was that higher-order cognition learning (i.e. application, analysis and synthesis), that would be predicted to benefit from their inquiry approach was only assessed with a student survey.
