Bailey admits vicious assault on his partner

IAN BAILEY assaulted his partner so viciously that her eye was swollen to the size of a grapefruit, clumps of hair were pulled from her head and her lip was severed from her gum.

Bailey admits vicious assault on his partner

The English journalist, who is suing seven newspapers in a libel action arising from coverage of the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, admitted the assault on his partner, but denied he was a violent man.

These descriptions of injuries sustained by Mr Bailey’s partner, Jules Thomas, after she was assaulted in May 1996, were given in cross-examination by senior counsel Paul Gallagher.

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