VIDEO: Ian Bailey verdict: Business of the jury was to answer two core questions

Parts of Ian Bailey’s case against the State were struck down last week after Mr Justice John Hedigan decided only two core questions could be decided by the jury.

He made the decision after hearing legal argument in the absence of the jury over two days and after the State moved to have the entire case withdrawn.

This followed an application by the State defendants to have the whole of the case withdrawn from the jury on a number of key points, including that it was statute barred. The decision of Mr Justice Hedigan could not be reported until the jury had finished its deliberations and the case was finished.