‘If I didn’t arrest Bailey I’d be failing people of West Cork’

Garda denies he didn’t have ‘blind bit of interest’ in evidence to corroborate innocence

‘If I didn’t arrest Bailey I’d be failing people of West Cork’

A detective garda who arrested Ian Bailey on suspicion of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier has rejected a suggestion he did not have “a blind bit of interest” in anything that might corroborate Mr Bailey’s innocence.

John Paul Culligan, now retired, said he had five reasons for arresting Mr Bailey, including that Mr Bailey had told people he committed the murder.

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