Bailey to provide details of losses

Ian Bailey’s lawyers have promised to provide details in the next 12 days of what losses he has allegedly suffered as a result of his arrest during the Garda investigation into the 1996 murder in West Cork of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Lawyers for the State complained in the High Court yesterday they had still not received, despite a number of requests, details of actual losses claimed by Mr Bailey for his damages action against the State. The case is due to be heard before a jury in November.

The court also heard legal disclosure to the Bailey side of transcripts of conversations between gardaí and callers to Bandon Garda Station in Cork, where the investigation team was based, is almost complete. As a result an application for discovery of documents against the DPP was struck out by Mr Justice John Hedigan.