Bailey legal costs: Up to €5m may go unpaid

Ian Bailey is to continue his fight to prove there was a campaign to frame him for murder, despite being hit with a multi-million euro legal bill for his failed High Court case against the State.

The former journalist was yesterday ordered to pay all the legal costs associated with the 64-day hearing which ended in March, with a jury verdict that he was not the victim of a Garda conspiracy to set him up for the still unsolved murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Costs are estimated to run to as much as €5m. There is no likelihood that Mr Bailey — who is unemployed and says his ability to earn a living was ruined after he was arrested in connection with the murder — will be able to pay them.