A High Court judge has reserved judgement on whether to extradite Ian Bailey to France, where he is wanted in connection with the killing of a French film-maker here 14 years ago.

Ian Bailey’s legal team has described the attempt by the French authorities to extradite him to France as an insult to the Irish State in what’s understood to be the first case of its type in Europe.

SOPHIE Toscan du Plantier’s family expects a lengthy legal battle to get Ian Bailey before a French judge investigating her death.