Coded coda
Updated on 27 April 2006
Finally, the code in the Da Vinci Code judgement is solved.
Judge Peter Smith's fiendish message in the Da Vinci Code judgement has been cracked.
Despite all your excellent entries - none of you got it right - but we know a man who did.
Richard Taylor was one of a number of lawyers at the law firm Olswang who spent some of their valuable time on the puzzle yesterday - and found that the key to the puzzle was a mathematical progression known as the Fibonacci sequence.
The code in full is:
SmithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreaamqwfkadpmqzv
And the solution?
Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought
The key lies in the fact that the judge is a keen military historian.
Far from being an arcane guide in the quest for the Holy Grail, it turned out to be a tribute to the judge's great hero - Admiral John "Jackie" Fisher.
He admitted he had inserted the code for his own amusement and it had nothing to do with the case.
He said: "I hate crosswords and do not do Sudoku as I do not have the patience".
