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Ruthlessly ambitious and with an air of arrogance, he boasted of spy contacts at GCHQ but ended up 'hounded to his grave' after being accused of a shocking murder, writes DAVID JONES.
EXCLUSIVE: Ian Bailey was sentenced to 25 years at the Paris Assizes Court in his absence five years ago, despite claiming he had never met his victim, Sophie Toscan du Plantier (pictured).
In 2019 a French court convicted Bailey of murder in absentia and sentenced him to 25 years, but he never served that term because he lived in Ireland.
Despite being sentenced in his absence in a French court, Bailey always maintained his innocence, and was never charged by the Irish police.
Ian Bailey, the British journalist sentenced in his absence for the murder of a French film producer in Ireland, has died of a suspected heart attack aged 66, according to his solicitor.