Lawyer in Ian Bailey case fails in bid to prosecute journalist

Robert Sheehan (pictured), while working in the Director of Public Prosecution’s office in 2001, wrote a scathing analysis of the investigation of Ian Bailey for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. File picture: Courtpix
A lawyer who was central to the Ian Bailey case has failed in an attempt to take a private prosecution against a journalist who wrote a book on the case.
Robert Sheehan, while working in the Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) office in 2001, wrote a scathing analysis of the investigation of Bailey for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.