The Manohara Episode – innocent until proven guilty
Art Harun
I don't normally write about private matters, especially when the whole facts are unknown. But the Manohara stories have evoked so much ill feelings towards YTM Tengku Temenggong Muhammad Fakhry that I feel I have to state my 2 sen's worth about the matter.
I wish to start by saying that I do not know the facts of this matter. All that I have are information which I got from the various reports on the Internet. And I do not have the means to verify those information. Being so, I am afraid that this post is going to be speculative, at best.
The latest take on this episode is titled "The Manohara Escape and Unsung Heroes" appearing on Malaysia Today. The story appearing in that article is however inconsistent with earlier reports which I had read a day earlier. Chief among which is the story about how Manohara pressed the emergency button of the elevator at 3 am, which was reported a day earlier.
In the aforesaid story however, the chronology of events are as follows:
