STOOPING, and flanked by two policemen, the captured man walked past the flashes of cameras, his white hat ensuring his face was covered. The dozens of Australian journalists who crowded him as he left the police van threw a battery of questions at him, forcing him to comment. "Am I a godfather? As you see, they got no evidence from me," he said smugly.

Andrew Chan, the man taken from police custody, was then led into the inq