DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions James Hamilton has broken unprecedented ground by apologising to the husband of a woman fatally injured in a crash in which the State failed to prosecute for alleged driving offences.

The Morris Tribunal went behind closed doors today as colourful witness Adrienne McGlinchey began her fifth day of evidence at the garda corruption inquiry by denying any form of sexual relationship with Detective Garda Noel McMahon, one of the central figures in the on-going probe.