INTERVIEW | As the days draw near to his corruption trial, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng says he is “psyching” himself up for the worst case scenario - jail time.

This would help him prepare his children to accept his fate, which he insists, is a “political conspiracy to character assassinate” him.

Lim lamented being unable to protect his four children, three of whom are in their twenties, and the youngest, 10, from being hurt, despite being their father.

“So what if I am CM, I can’t protect my children,” he told Malaysiakini, in an interview in Komtar...