I have a confession to make. I was the culprit, so to speak, who got Irene Fernandez into trouble. It pained me to no end to see her in and out of court for 13 years, but she would have none of my apologies.

It was 19 years ago - 1995 to be exact - when I was working at The Sun that I met Irene at the Tenaganita office, armed with a five-page report which the newspaper dared not publish...