Garda denies he didn’t have ‘blind bit of interest’ in evidence to corroborate innocence

Journalist Ian Bailey has denied before the High Court he asked another man whether he knew about "the murder in Schull" before telling him, with a smirk: "That was me".

The newspapers who are fighting a libel action taken by English journalist Ian Bailey on coverage of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier claimed today that the plaintiff confessed to killing the Frenchwoman with the words, "I did it, I did it, I went too far."