Ian Bailey is a wanted man. The French authorities have requested the Irish government to extradite him for the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Planter in December 1996. In May of this year a Paris court convicted him in absentia of murder and sentenced him to twenty five years in prison.The Irish DPP has repeatedly declined to bring charges against Mr Bailey on the basis of insufficient evidence. An analysis of the case in the DPP’s office, compiled in 2001, was highly critical of the garda investigation of the murder.So as things stand Mr Bailey is currently living in a form of suspension as he awaits a knock on the door, arrest and dispatch to the High Court for an extradition hearing. The period of turbulent in his life has also, he says, seen his creative side blossom. He has published a collection of poetry, I’m In A John Wayne State Of Mind, which deals to a great extent with the tribulations of his life. Mick Clifford met Ian Bailey at his home in West Cork.
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