He held the fate of the nation in his hands, yet he chose to sell his soul to Mahathir for a pittance. Augustine Paul will long be remembered as the puppet judge who dragged the judiciary to new lows to convict his master's political enemy. His trial of Anwar Ibrahim was a parody of justice from beginning to end. He bent over backwards to hold the prosecution's flimsy case together and illegally restricted the defence from presenting their evidence with his famous cry of "irrelevant!". Under the glare of international spotlight, he failed to run his kangaroo court with even a modicum of believability and turned it into a sordid circus. When he delivered his stinking judgement, he claimed that he was answerable to God, but it was obvious that he had sold his soul to the devil.