Bailey: I’m suing State to clear my name

Says inability to attend mother’s funeral was ‘the cruellest abuse’

Ian Bailey yesterday told a High Court jury he brought a case for damages against the State to “establish once and for all” he had nothing to do with the murder of French film maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

He told his own counsel Martin Giblin on the third day of his action that he was bringing the case to “establish once and for all I had nothing to do with it and I am a victim of a conspiracy”.