Bailey gets garda probe in appeal of extradition

IAN BAILEY is entitled to rely on recently disclosed material critical of the Garda investigation into the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in his appeal against his extradition to France in connection with her murder.

The High Court ordered Mr Bailey’s extradition last March, but he went to the Supreme Court which adjourned the case to allow his lawyers consider the new material disclosed last November.

Mr Bailey’s side argued that material disclosed a “breath-taking” level of wrongdoing by state officials and, had it been available to them for the High Court hearing, they would have been able to make “a much stronger case” concerning allegations of Garda misbehaviour in the murder investigation.