“Most unusually, the DPP at the time subsequently described the Garda investigation as ‘thoroughly flawed and prejudiced’ against Bailey,” said Mr Walsh. He said French authorities pursued its own prosecution as under French law the murder of a French citizen anywhere in the world can be prosecuted in a French court irrespective of the nationality of the accused. Using EU mutual assistance agreements they requested the Garda investigation file. He said the French magistrate reached the opposite conclusion to the DPP because he was applying French norms to the fruits of a garda investigation. “These aspects cast a serious cloud over the credibility of the Garda investigation,” he said.

Source: Irish Examiner June 07, 2019 22:52 UTC