Garda said evidence on Bailey ‘very weak’

Detective Sgt tells superior they had to ‘break’ Bailey’s partner

A detective sergeant involved in the investigation of the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier told a detective chief superintendent in 1997 “all we have” against journalist Ian Bailey was “very weak circumstantial evidence”, a High Court jury has heard.

In a recorded conversation of June 25, 1997, Sgt Liam Hogan, now deceased, said “...even to have him out there at 3 o’clock in the morning, he is still a mile and a half from the scene, he roams the fucking place all the time”.