Bailey can be extradited, court rules

IAN Bailey’s fight to avoid a trial in France for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier is set to move to the Supreme Court after the High Court ruled he should be handed over to the French authorities.

Mr Bailey, 53, has been given until next Tuesday to lodge his appeal against plans by High Court judge Michael Peart to formally grant an extradition order that day surrendering him to French police.

The former journalist, of The Prairie, Schull, Co Cork has always denied killing Ms Toscan du Plantier, a 39-year-old French film-maker whose battered body was found outside her holiday home at Toormore, Schull, on December 23 1996.