‘Gardaí told me Bailey confessed to the murder’

Jules Thomas yesterday said gardaí told her Ian Bailey confessed to the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier when he "never had".

“I didn’t believe it,” Ms Thomas told the High Court.

Ms Thomas, Mr Bailey’s long-term partner, said this happened when she and Mr Bailey were being separately questioned at Bandon Garda Station on February 12, 1997, in connection with the December 1996 murder.