Partner wanted Bailey charged with murder

Ian Bailey’s partner, Jules Thomas, wrote to the DPP requesting he be charged with Sophie Tuscan du Plantier’s murder and they could receive a "fair trial in Ireland" and be put out of the "mental torture" being inflicted on the couple.

Her desperate letter was written in 2011 after she had been questioned by French detectives investigating the 1996 murder, for which she and Mr Bailey had both been arrested and never charged. She wrote that they “have been living in hell for the past 15 years” as a result of attempts to blame Mr Bailey for the murder in West Cork.

The letter was read during the opening speech of Mr Bailey’s High Court action against the gardaí, minister for justice, attorney general, and the State, for wrongful arrest, which resulted in “emotional and psychological harm, harassment and breach of constitutional rights”.