Bailey: garda warned I’d get a bullet in the head

THE garda driving Ian Bailey after his arrest for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier ten years ago told him, “even if we don’t pin this on you, you are finished in Ireland, you will be found dead with a bullet in the back of the head,” it was claimed yesterday.

Describing his arrest on February 10, 1997, he said: “I was shackled, handcuffs put on. I was put into a car. I was told I was arrested for the murder.”

Asked to describe his reaction, he said “absolute astonishment, disbelief”.