A long saga: Anwar walking out a free man after his royal pardon in May. Trowell first acted as an international observer at Anwar’s trial in 2008.
MALAYSIANS could not have known that when then deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was first taken to court in 1998, it would take almost 20 years for him to become a free man.
Or, that the man who was prime minister then, who sacked Anwar as DPM, would return as PM and pave the way for his pardon after Pakatan Harapan – the new opposition coalition – won the 14th General Election spectacularly on May 9.
