Lawyer tells High Court France's third attempt to extradite Ian Bailey is an 'abuse of process'

Ian Bailey (pictured) explained that he was unable to visit his mother in a nursing home in the UK or attend her funeral, something, he said "had been one of the cruellest aspects of this entire process". Photo: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

A request to extradite Ian Bailey to France for a third time, where he is facing a 25-year prison sentence for the murder of filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, is an "abuse of process", his lawyers have told the High Court.

Ronan Munro SC, for Mr Bailey, today argued that his client has an "ironclad right" not to be surrendered to France and it had not been threatened in any way by subsequent developments in law.