‘Horrific’ allegation may have turned case

TALKS about Ian Bailey’s abandonment of his case began as early as Thursday afternoon following the English journalist’s “horrific” evidence against lawyers for the newspapers.

That evidence, which was greeted with a storm of protest from the newspaper lawyers and a warning to Mr Bailey from the judge, could well have been the turning point for Mr Bailey’s case.

Mr Bailey’s case had always been that his problems began with garda corruption framing him for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, aggravated by a compliant media using false information from the gardaí and by malice and character assassination in some media reports.