COMMENT Several interviews in national daily newspapers given by the lawyer engaged as a prosecutor, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, have reignited issues surrounding the conviction of Anwar Ibrahim.

In a rather brutal attack on Anwar, whom he helped put away for a five-year jail term, Shafee implied that the accused would have been torn to shreds if he had testified, instead of giving his 'evidence' from the dock. He labelled Anwar a 'coward with something to hide'.

I do not recall any such condemnatory remarks being ever made publicly by the former lawyers from the Attorney-General's Chambers who conducted the prosecution at the earlier two judicial tiers - the High Court and the Court of Appeal...