Bailey: I did not tell teenager I killed du Plantier

JOURNALIST Ian Bailey denied telling a teenager shortly after the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier: “I went up there with a rock one night and bashed her f***king brains in.”

Bailey: I did not tell teenager I killed du Plantier

Mr Bailey denied yesterday that he said that to Malachi Reed, who was 14 at the time. Describing a conversation he had with the teenager to whom he gave a lift, he recalled: “He asked me how things were going. I said, things were going fine until newspapers started to say I committed the murder.”

Ian Bailey admitted yesterday that he assaulted his partner Jules Thomas three times — once because she elbowed him in a single bed which they were sharing.

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