Ian Bailey's solicitor hits out at Tánaiste's comments on Sophie Toscan du Plantier case

Micheál Martin said the State had 'failed in our duty to find and convict a bloody murderer, and our system blocked alternative routes when others were not willing to accept our failures'

Ian Bailey always denied any involvement in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case.

The solicitor for the late Ian Bailey has labelled Tánaiste Micheál Martin's recent comments on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case as "extraordinary" and "a fair old attack on many of the pillars of justice of the State".

Sophie Toscan du Plantier's body was found badly beaten outside her holiday home in Schull, West Cork, in December 1996. She was 39 years old.