Sergeant exposed himself, Bailey trial told

A garda detective sergeant exposed himself to a woman who had given evidence against Ian Bailey telling her "isn’t it a real turn-on fitting up the long black bollocks or the English bastard or whatever they call him", she told the High Court yesterday.

Marie Farrell made the comments in evidence in Mr Bailey’s civil action against the Garda Commissioner and the state over the investigation into the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier near Schull in late 1996.

Ms Farrell said that while she was working in Schull Golf Club in summer 1998, she, her husband, Det Sgt Maurice Walsh and his wife were having drinks at the end of the night. Ms Farrell said she went to check the toilets and could see Sergeant Walsh behind her.