No pressure on DPP to charge Bailey, former assistant commissioner insists

A retired assistant commissioner has said he was not aware of gardaí putting pressure on the DPP to charge Ian Bailey with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

No pressure on DPP to charge Bailey, former assistant commissioner insists

A retired assistant commissioner has said he was not aware of gardaí putting pressure on the DPP to charge Ian Bailey with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Noel Smith, who headed up the investigation in to the French film maker's death at her holiday home in Schull, Co Cork in 1996, has been giving evidence in the High Court.

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