Bailey recalls joking to editor, ‘Of course I did it. I needed a story.’

“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.

Bailey, 50, who was reporting for various newspapers on the French woman’s murder on December 22/ 23, 1996.

His conversation with the Sunday Tribune news editor, Helen Callanan, about a week after the death, was put in evidence at the High Court in Cork yesterday.