Ex-soldier: I met with GSOC but wanted pay

A former British soldier has told the Ian Bailey case at the High Court he agreed to meet the Garda Síochána Ombudmsman Commission (GSOC) in February 2014 but left after it refused to pay him expenses for being off work.

Martin Graham said he agreed to meet Gsoc after receiving a text on January 10 last year saying Irish police were looking for help finding who murdered “the French girl”.

He said he met representatives of Gsoc in the Park Hotel, Northampton, but left when they refused his request for a day’s expenses for leaving his work as a market stall trader. He said he had said: “Stick it, I’ve a job to go and do.”