It was at his request, I met her sometime later and she was geniunely still distraught about it. I also had the chance to hear her side of the story.

You still have a point, I'm opening myself up to libel and I'm not sure it adds much value to the story.

I think John wanted Ian gone because Ian may have just found about it all around that time. I have to speculate because neither John or Ian would tell me much detail about it at the time.

There are some more sordid details to it that I think anyone would be ashamed of. It makes the rest of the story seem tame by comparison, but I left it out because it wasn't really important to the story and would only serve to attack John.