JOURNALIST Ian Bailey denied telling a teenager shortly after the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier: “I went up there with a rock one night and bashed her f***king brains in.”

“OF course I did, I needed a story” was Ian Bailey’s response to what he thought was a joke when a news editor told him of the rumour that he had murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Ian Bailey took it as a black joke when a news editor said there was a rumour that he murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier and he said at the time: “Of course I did, I needed a story.”