The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a man accused on murdering his wife in south Dublin two years ago have been hearing from emergency service personnel who attended the scene of the death.

THE family of a woman whose husband’s trial for her murder opened at the Central Criminal Court yesterday have told the jury that the deceased was not suicidal at the time of her death.

IAN Bailey spoke out yesterday about “the dirty, rotten, stinking lies” that were printed about him that damaged him 10 years ago and are still damaging him.

“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 assaulted his partner so viciously that her eye was swollen to the size of a grapefruit, clumps of hair were pulled from her head and her lip was severed from her gum.

Ian Bailey denied that he was a violent man in the libel trial against seven newspapers in Cork Circuit Court today.