Garda said ‘he’d get Bailey high to confess’

A detective garda said he was sending a "down and out" to journalist Ian Bailey’s home to get Mr Bailey "drunk and high" and to "confess" on tape, Marie Farrell has told a High Court jury.

“It was like something out of TV show Miami Vice,” the shopkeeper said.

Ms Farrell said, from early 1997, she had several daily conversations over months with Det Garda Jim Fitzgerald, during which they would discuss “everything,” including personal matters and the Garda investigation into the murder of French film-maker, Sophie Toscan du Planter, whose body was found near Toomore, Schull, on the morning of December 23, 1996.