500 descendants of pioneer Malay High Court judge celebrate their roots

(second from left at the front) Datuk Syed Ahmad Idid and his brother Prof Datuk Seri Dr. Syed Arabi Idid (in blue) with the rest of the third generation of the Idid clan during the gathering. AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

DATUK Syed Ahmad Idid remembers his grandfather as a strict but doting family man.

The retired High Court judge said his grandfather, Syed Mohammed Idid, who was one of the country’s pioneering Malay judges, once caught him smoking.