VIDEO: Surprise at how quickly jury came back after 59-day case

Everybody was surprised at how quickly the jury came back, considering they had heard 59 days of evidence. Only some, though, of those squeezed into the court, were surprised at the actual verdict.

It took the jury of seven men and four women – a 12th juror was lost over the winter – just over two hours to conclude that three named gardaí had not conspired to have Ian Bailey fingered for the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in December 1996. They had not conspired to induce a witness, Maria Farrell, to sign statements to that effect. They had not conspired to have Ms Farrell falsely accuse Bailey of intimidating her.

Those were the two issues to which the trial had been boiled down in the last week.