Bailey said ‘I did it, I did it’, court told

Ian Bailey was upset and crying when he put his arms around a man and said: “I did it, I did it”, a High Court jury has been told.

An acquaintance of Mr Bailey’s, Richie Shelley, said that when he asked Mr Bailey what did he do, Mr Bailey said: “I went too far.”

Mr Shelley yesterday told the High Court this happened sometime after 2am on January 1, 1999, at Mr Bailey’s home at the Prairie, Schull, after Mr Bailey had been looking at newspaper cuttings about the murder in West Cork of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.