Evidence treated very differently than would be the case in an Irish court

With just two Cork witnesses present from a list of 22, the dissemination of evidence at the Ian Bailey murder trial resembled an attempt to flesh out the personality of a guilty man, in the absence of a direct link to the crime, writes Michael Clifford in Paris.

Last Monday, on the first day of the Ian Bailey murder trial in Paris, crime-scene photographs were shown on a big screen. The photos depicted Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s body on a patch of ground near her holiday home in Toormore, outside Schull.