Bailey lawyers to receive names of gardaí

The DPP has agreed to give Ian Bailey the names of three gardaí alleged to have asked a State solicitor to put pressure on a former DPP to initiate prosecution proceedings for the 1996 murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier in west Cork.

The three gardaí were referred to by former DPP Eamonn Barnes in a document expressing concern about aspects of the Garda investigation into the murder.

Mr Bailey’s lawyers previously received a copy of the document but the names of the gardaí, and certain other parts of the document, were redacted or blacked out.