Bailey damages action hears garda tape saying 'that statement has to get chopped up'
Ian Bailey's damages action has been hearing secretly taped garda phone calls in which a detective is heard saying: "That statement has to get chopped up."
The recording from Bandon garda station in June 1997 is a conversation between the now deceased Det Sergeant Liam Hogan and detective garda Jim Fitzgerald.
In the conversation, the detectives talk about trying to trace a phone call Ian Bailey was seen making from O'Regan's pub the night before Sophie Toscan du Plantier's murder.
They talk about questioning an unidentified woman who lived with the journalist between 1995 and 1996 and assert that she's lying and that "he's got to her".
Later in the phone conversation, Ian Bailey's partner Jules is described as "very devious" and Sergeant Hogan says a "statement has to get chopped up".
The two detectives also seem to discuss wiring up Schull shopkeeper Marie Farrell for a meeting with Ian Bailey.
Det Fitzgerald says: "If he did come back and asked her to talk to a reporter about we setting her up or something for a statement, like you'd have the f**ker then like you know."
Mr Bailey's wrongful arrest action continues tomorrow.
