The millionaire novelist quit the mayoral race on Saturday after admitting he asked a friend to provide him with an alibi for a dinner date he thought would be raised in the sensational 1987 Monica Coghlan libel trial.

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The batteries died on her tape recorder, so they made a date to finish the interview later that week, which turned into dinner for two.

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